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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 29/09/2026

Currently obsessed with playing Control Resonant. liquidx.net/posts/2026/c...

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Control Resonant

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 19/09/2026

Content on my website liquidx.net is backed out of my Obsidian Vault. I have a convoluted way that involved Obsidian Sync, a server I wrote a few years ago that converts the files into something that velite and SvelteKit munges into a website.

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 18/09/2026

We had a great Geo Tokyo Meetup last night! Highly appreciate all the people showing up and participating. I built a website for the meetup after the 8th one, I think it was worth documenting all the map links and demos we shared and discussed. geotokyo.com/meetups/2026...

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Geo Tokyo Meetup Summer 2026 · Geo Tokyo

Thu, Sep 17 2026, 18:00 – 20:00 at FabCafe Tokyo, Shibuya, Tokyo. Casual chat about all things cartographic. Bring a project from Japan, or whatever you're building.

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 10/07/2026

Most of June was spent on this: my hyper-personal finance app that's designed for my needs and only my needs. It takes all my financial documents, uses an LLM to read and classify the contents and produces visual analysis of my financial world in a way I understand. liquidx.net/posts/2026/f...

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Fine Financials

Fine Financials is my hyper-personal finance app that's designed for my needs and only my needs. It takes all my financial documents, uses an LLM to read and classify the contents and produces visual ...

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 01/07/2026

Amazingly managed to write month notes for the second month! On vibe coding a finance app, an embedded device, the world cup and daft punk. liquidx.net/posts/2026/m...

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Month Notes for June 2026

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 20/06/2026

Finally got around to posting my first monthnotes ever. (I'm working on making it weekly, but small steps) liquidx.net/posts/2026/m...

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Month Notes for May 2026

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Eric Migicovsky @ericmigi.com · 19/06/2026

My fav watchface right now - Chronology II from @nicholas.fyi apps.repebble.com/chronology-i...

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 12/06/2026

I just realized that the world cup started, and also realized I just watched the first two games, and also realized I have all the free time to watch every single game. #retiree

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 31/05/2026

I managed to get resident.inanimate.tech working to send custom gradients to m5sticks3 over wifi. The hot reloading is like magic. Thanks @genmon.fyi for putting this together! I also managed to hook up the mic, now wondering if I could make http requests... 🤔

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 23/05/2026

I made a thing yesterday, and today I made it better. Revisited an old project of mine from several years ago rendering open train data from the Japan government. At the time I barely got it working but this time I had a stab at it with AI and really made it work. train-lines.liquidx.net

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Japan Train Lines by @liquidx

Plotting each train line of Japan

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 07/05/2026

Finally deleted all my tweets from Twitter. The web API rate limits to 200 deletes per 15 mins, and I had 13209 tweets - roughly 16 hours if nothing went wrong (and it did a few times.) My Twitter For You feed immediately went from geeky japanese cartographers to AI bros arguing with each other.

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 02/05/2026

Have any of you wondered why island is not pronounced is-land?

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 08/04/2026

After 6863 days, yesterday was my final day at Google. Two months shy of 19 years. There's no next thing, I'm retiring to spend time completing my side quests.

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 31/03/2026

Let me report another supply chain attack: While I was reading about the axios supply chain attack, I was fooled into thinking that The Hacker News is the Hacker News (hn.ycombinator.com). thehackernews.com/2026/03/axio...

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Axios Supply Chain Attack Pushes Cross-Platform RAT via Compromised npm Account

Axios 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 injected malicious plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 after npm compromise on March 31, 2026, deploying cross-platform RAT malware.

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 31/03/2026

I'm this 👌 close to muting anything that starts with "the future of" because there's nothing more annoying than someone trying to predict the future. Let's stay in the present.

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 20/03/2026

We are resurrecting the Geo Tokyo meetup that has been on a 3.5 year hiatus. @reustle.org and I are inviting those who like geeking out on maps and geo data to come join us on Apr 1 at FabCafe Tokyo for a good fun chat. luma.com/r4k3o638

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Geo Tokyo #6 - Spring 2026 · Luma

Join us for our 6th Geo Tokyo event! After a three year hiatus, we're back. This is a casual meetup of mapping enthusiasts in Tokyo. If you like making maps,…

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 16/03/2026

Another vibe coded thing that was easier to make than to search for. A qrcode generator where I can mess with the pixels and see if it scans. aversion.one/of/qrcode

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 20/02/2026

I dislocated my knee a month ago snowboarding, and so I've been channelling all my frustration and energy into building this big site about Japanese snowboards. The world of Japanese snowboards is very fragmented and not so well documented, but also huge and fascinating.

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 12/02/2026

As a fun experiment, while redesigning my website again this year, I wondered what would happen if I could navigate my website using terminal commands. Today, I got it working after a few attempts: liquidx.net/posts/2026/t...

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 16/12/2025

Preparing for the new snow season with major updates to my snowline.jp site. Added loads more webcams, better snow data and even resort opening dates.

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 03/11/2025

For many years, I have wanted to get a Sigma fp camera. Now I even want it more after finding out how they build everything in Aizu, Fukushima. www.sigma-global.com/en/about/

Sigma is a Japanese manufacturer of photographic lenses and cameras. Our production is based entirely in Japan, with our headquarters in Kanagawa and our factory in Aizu, Fukushima.
We have been a family-owned company since our founding by Michihiro Yamaki in 1961. Today, Sigma is managed by his son, Kazuto Yamaki. It is this independence that allows us to explore different approaches and pursue our ideal of craftsmanship.
Our Aizu factory was established in 1973. To this day, it remains Sigma's sole manufacturing base, with every step of production - from initial concept to optical engineering, product assembly, quality control and even parts sourcing - taking place in Japan. Although not without its challenges, this conscious decision ensures seamless collaboration across departments and partner companies, quick response times and rigorous quality control at every stage of production. Our deep ties to the Tohoku region, particularly Aizu, have allowed us to become part of the local community, to support its culture, to advance local technology, and to nurture the expertise of our employees.

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Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com · 31/10/2025

Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn

Venn diagrams as jack-o-laterns showing trick/treat logicals: OR, AND, XOR, NOR, NAND, and XNOR

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 25/10/2025

I feel like I should also launch an AI browser. AI browser is the new todo list. Everyone thinks everyone wants one, but actually we all secretly hate it.

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 19/10/2025

Generated this from a photo with mixup.app

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 19/10/2025

Today I learned that in CSS, `color: darkgray` is lighter that `color: gray` www.joshwcomeau.com/css/color-fo...

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 16/10/2025

AI as a ghost is pretty wonderful. It's not alive but it some how can do things that normal humans can't, yet has some fatal flaws. Stuck in pergatory or on a device. @genmon.fyi writes about this: interconnected.org/home/2025/09...

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I like AI slop and I cannot lie

Posted on Friday 26 Sep 2025. 876 words, 9 links. By Matt Webb.

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 17/09/2025

Another #vibecoding update. Spent the long weekend making an Android app of my dreams . A check-in & location timeline app that allows me to check in post visit. Did so much I ran out of quota on Claude Pro that I decided to try out Codex (w/ ChatGPT Plus) and Gemini CLI.

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Anil Madhavapeddy @anil.recoil.org · 09/09/2025

I also knocked up a fun interactive global explorer where you can check out your favorite country and food choices to compare risks quantifyearth.github.io/food-globe/

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 08/09/2025

I've never heard of a Sodium Ion rechargable battery, but apparently that's something you can buy now in Japan. More expensive than Lithium Ion but way more charge cycles (5000): www.elecom.co.jp/pickup/conte...

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 07/09/2025

Another vibe coded experiment. Imagine if you had a browser that could only access pages from an LLM. Give it any URL, even completely made up ones and it'll show you. aversion.one/of/navigator

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 30/08/2025

Just rewatched Interstellar (2014) -- their AI robots can reconfigure their honesty and humor levels. I think we need that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b-O...

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TARS Honesty Setting (Interstellar)

YouTube video by YBSTV Official (YaBoySuper TV)

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 20/08/2025

"Creating shareholder value is a kind of creativity, isn't it?" - @tomgauld.bsky.social 💀 INCREDBLE myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/7876995...

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YOU'RE ALL JUST JEALOUS OF MY JETPACK

My latest cartoon for Guardian Books

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 13/08/2025

(Nearly) daily vibe coding: I've been making changes every day but haven't been posting about it. I've got to the point where the UI is more refined after a lot of specifying how the UX should be. The more I do, the more features I want to add! aversion.one/of/metro

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 03/08/2025

Daily Vibe Coding : In celebration of being back in London, I vibe coded a train map editor so I could make my own version of the London underground map - but for everything. aversion.one/of/metro

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 31/07/2025

Fell off the daily vibe coding streak because of lots of errands, itching to get back after a weeks break.

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 31/07/2025

Getting ready to visit London again after 5 years. 💂

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 22/07/2025

Daily Vibing: Improved on the codepoet. Added a few other poet styles and algorithms, which is delightful. It's surprising that even though the poem is abstract to humans (me), the LLM knows that code it is roughly describing! Coded with Claude Code. aversion.one/of/codepoet

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 21/07/2025

Daily Vibing: Convert code to a poem and then back to code. I love the idea of being able to prompt LLMs in riddles and poems rather than prose. Coded with Gemini CLI. aversion.one/of/codepoet

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 20/07/2025

Daily vibing: Probably the final iteration of my threejs text field. It now has colors and a reflection underneath for a bit more 3d. Works on mobile. Written by Claude Code. localhost:5173/of/number

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 19/07/2025

Daily vibing: iterated on my threejs text field. I didn't come up with the animations, asked Claude Code to make it "explode" when I delete a character. It did something better than what I had thought of. (Desktop only for now) aversion.one/of/number

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 17/07/2025

Daily Vibing: A full screen 3d input box. Svelte component using ThreeJS written using Claude Code. aversion.one/of/number

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 16/07/2025

Daily vibing : building a little fake terminal emulator. aversion.one/of/terminal

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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The other day, I was telling friends and family how a housewife originated these Tokyo Metro transfer and exit guides, and they thought I was kidding. It used to be a well-known story. If you don't know it, here's a quick summary.

Photo of a Nanboku Line 乗り換え出口案内 (transfer and exit guide) on a station platform.

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 13/07/2025

I love this thing. It's algo art meets poetry meets self-deprecation of "The Vibe Coder". "The Vibe Coder’s energy is like this, he lets things come and he lets things go, effortlessly, without grasping. He has no expectations, thus, he’s never disappointed." www.thewayofcode.com#55

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Rick Rubin | The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding

Rick Rubin brings ancient wisdom to the modern age in The Way of Code, a meditation on the art and science of vibe coding. With Claude by Anthropic, the Grammy-award winning producer and author of The...

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 07/07/2025

IKEA (eye-key-ah) is pronounced differently in Japan. It is pronounced ee-ke-ah (イケア) I wonder which one is closer to the original Swedish pronounciation. This came up when I had a chat about why Google decided to pronounce Gemini as gem-min-ni (ジェミニ) in Japanese.

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 03/07/2025

Errr... The weather report says it's 34C, but all the sensors outside my house are screaming 38C.

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 12/06/2025

A while back I had trouble with Svelte on an iOS 13 Safari device. This was what I was trying to build, a custom home assistant front end using their websocket API running on a iPad mini Gen 3.

Screen on an iPad mini showing power output stats

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