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Category: Micro

Short posts or status updates for my micro.blog

  • #youngstar is finally one

    Our long #youngstar programming nightmare is over. About two years ago, Michael and I noticed that the aforementioned Apple Music playlist had veered from its Japanese roots and presented differently to international users. The English picks were mediocre, and not edgy or innovative in line with the playlist’s stated purpose. And then it fell into a memory hole and wasn’t updated for months. Well, the localization experiment is over! I’m now seeing the Japanese version here in the Singapore ‘store’. Good on you, Apple Music editors.

  • Chris Brandrick of the Switch Weekly newsletter provides more reasons for gamers to leave Twitter for Bluesky on his gaming site, Overkill. Check it out for lists and accounts to follow. https://overkill.wtf/gaming-on-bluesky-social-network

  • Normally when a new service comes out, early adopters help keep it going till it gets really good. With something like Apple Arcade, you can wait and see; no rush. With identity-related things like HEY email, names are scarce/unique. More time pressure on users and devs both.

  • After thinking aloud about HEY email over the past 10 days, and trying out Fastmail + Spark as an alternative, I’ve come to my conclusion: I’m going with HEY. The AMA they did helped dispel a lot of my concerns, and I’m looking forward to seeing how it develops.

  • My review of the Leica D-Lux 7 is consistently one of the most visited posts on the blog. It’s a versatile camera with few compromises, and the new all-black version looks great. If I were buying one today, that’s the one I’d get.

  • Time flies and we’ve now been here four days. We visited T-Site yesterday; still one of my favorite retail experiences, even though I can’t use half the things they have. It’s a pop culture magazine as physical space: something we all need since the internet killed everything.

  • Arrived in Tokyo sleepless and went straight to line up for 3 hours to get into Nakiryu, a 1 Michelin-starred ramen joint near Ikebukuro. Intense take on tantanmen, and nearly worth the wait. After a break, went to an izakaya for dinner where we discovered the magic of yuzukosho.

  • One more week to Tokyo, and I’m super excited to finally have Hinoya Curry. Here’s a photo of a sumo wrestler painted on the shutters of an outlet I passed the last time around. Chris “The Foreigner Who Loves Curry” Kohler added them to his list, so my expectations are HIGH.