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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

It's really great for editing, but creating a post is a bit annoying to get the frontmatter right. So I made a custom CMS app to post like I would on social media that just writes directly into Obsidian.

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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 · 21/06/2026

Thank you! Yeah cyberpunk is a lot of fun, even on the switch. At first it was kind of tedious but then the story is pretty interesting.

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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

Oh nice! Thanks for the pointer, going to play around more with that next.

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

Able to have gradients you can put in your pocket, in case of emergencies.

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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 added colors and all sorts of controls. Honestly, 90% of my usage of AI was making it remove all the UI it generated. But one cool thing I was able to do with ease was animating the lines which I've always wanted to do.

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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 · 06/05/2026

What's with everyone hating on Christopher Nolan. I love his work still and continue to.

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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

What is a jrpg?? I mean, too many side quests and the list keeps on growing, like the weeds in my garden.

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

Grateful for all the opportunities. The opportunity to travel the world, to work on the first iPhone app, to bring people together, to work with wonderful people, to redesign Google, to work on my favourite products and to eat all the free food.

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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 · 01/04/2026

Ohhh, how does the redirect work, is Kagi a browser?

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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 · 26/03/2026

Those must be some pretty big emojis!

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 25/03/2026

Gosh I love these! Low poly flat rendering is my jam.

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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 · 07/03/2026

That's wonderful you shared that! I think I came up with this nickname/alias on IRC in around 1995 just stuck with it! I think I did find there were some other people who had the same name afterwards. Thanks for sharing and also appreciate you changed to a more unique name! Where are you based?

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 26/02/2026

I'm thinking you'll still get your sanding when you realize 90% of owning robots is plugging them into the right charging cable.

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Alastair Tse @liquidx.net · 21/02/2026

Thank you!! Yes you should try to come try it. Though the snow seasons are getting shorter and shorter. Riding japanese powder is so different from what I was used. But you have to try it to be able to do it. Maybe you'll get it straight away.

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

Thank you! It's getting there ... maybe a few more weeks and will be back to normal.

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

I'm learning a lot about the boards, but also the culture and people. So here it is: a living archive of Japanese snowboards, those boards designed for riding that Japanese snow. snowline.jp/en/gear/snow...

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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 · 27/10/2025

Not even a "thanks"??

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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 · 24/10/2025

I'm excited that you have a feed on your blog as well 😉

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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

Yeah I've done it only with Google APIs, they are still the best placedb in the world. The way the app works is it queries once for the place info and stores it for use locally on the device.

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

that's cool. is that something that often happens? I feel though with LLMs now, you can get at least close to interpreting how to query the db if you had the data.

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

Found that these coding agents are great at writing code, but really bad at coming up with good UX. Most of my interventions were making it use standard components, fixing icons, placement, etc. Also it got stuck on integration with the Activity Recognition API which took a full day to resolve.

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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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