Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 09/09/2026[HK Population Change via Migration](docs.google.com/spreadsheets...) [HK Population Change via Natural Causes](docs.google.com/spreadsheets...) [HK Population Change All Sources](docs.google.com/spreadsheets...) 001
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 08/09/2026i know it’s a meme at this point, but I just went downstairs to take pictures of my neighbors’ home. We speak almost daily because my dogs are good ice breakers and conversation starters. 150
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 26/08/2026I know what festival it is, but this is just leaving your trash out. Disrespectful to your family members who have departed this plane. Zoom in and look closely. 010
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 20/08/2026Here is mid-year 0-1 drops for 2024 and 2025. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 100
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 20/08/2026We have more primary schools than we did in 2015 (though I believe that is an operational trick with schools splitting into private/international distinction). 2027-2028 we will have ~66% of the P1 students we had in 2015. Lots of pressure on schools coming up. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 100
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 20/08/2026If you look at 30 year cycles on this (1965, 1995, 2025) it looks like we might be about to fall off a generational cliff in addition to other headwinds on fertility. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 100
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 20/08/2026Something is happening to kids censused in 2024 and 2025 where we have fewer one year olds than we did zero year olds from each cohort. This is very different from all years prior. (This chart is end-year, but it applies to mid-year too.) docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 100
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 20/08/2026First time 85+ has materially declined: - 1976 -.2 - 1991 -.7 - 2026 -11.4 docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 100
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 25/07/2026When you’re trying to identify a font, and this is the first sample you’re given. Easy mode. 100
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 21/07/2026From the couch to a one hour 10k: 19 weeks, two days. We’ll see how long it takes to do double that at the same pace. 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 19/07/2026Our infamous legislator Regina Ip has a 10 volume series on learning English? 010
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 30/06/2026- Contains all scroll interactions. (I expected to be able to scroll through it upon reaching the scroll-end, but that might just be me.) - Firefox is super-janky on content scroll. (M1 MBP) - Safari has bleed-through at the box boundary (appears to be dependent upon rounding). 100
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 30/06/2026A few annoyances, though I didn't compare to actual <select> behavior: - After flipping to "above" doesn't flip back to "below" until it re-intersects with a boundary. - Doesn't regrow. - Doesn't track the page anchor in Firefox during bounce-scroll. 200
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 25/06/2026Just noticed an absolutely beautiful example of Hong Kong’s “Prison Gothic” street signs. 040
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 23/06/2026Also, I couldn’t buy it even if I wanted to. Looks like international sales are not by lottery draw. 100
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 23/06/2026$SPCX is my emotional support stock. Feeling good today. 010
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 20/06/2026西多士 (lit. "West Toast" French Toast) served with maple syrup. 072
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 19/06/2026That's ... pretty fair for what you can find about me online. 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 19/06/2026There was a third suspect in this case, Matthew Trickett, who committed suicide. Given the circumstances, case, and conviction, it is difficult to argue this is political persecution. Trickett's exclusion from this discussion and resulting triptych makes it appear more political. 010
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 16/06/2026TVB (0511.hk) is is available for a song. US$152,692,000 Won’t somebody please buy it for me? 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 15/06/2026The a tail is flared, the visual weight of the second story isn’t tweaked, the font has traps seemingly without knowing why they are there… Don’t get me started about the e, or the i. 110
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 15/06/2026Weird take, but this feels like the Chinese version of these fonts. It’s an extreme exaggeration of features common in English fonts, but oddly applied. 120
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 11/06/2026My partner uses Canva and I hate it so much. As an indicator of their lack of attention to detail in an application supposedly for attending to details, they’ve got a cookie banner inside of their app. 110
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 04/06/2026This, in the country where firearms outnumber humans, is nonsense. Why would you 3D print a gun when acquiring one is so trivial? Meanwhile, the most famous case of assassination by homemade firearm, the weapon was a 2x4, a battery, and some pipes. 062
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 16/05/2026Sung Wong Toi already has the longest underground tunnels in Hong Kong! Just going the wrong direction. 010
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 16/05/2026The new hospital is 12 minutes away from the current flagship hospital. By car, because that’s the only way to get there. Moving from the center of all things and the most dense part of the city to the suburbs. 110
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 13/05/2026Pro tip for fly-tippers: don’t deposit trash on my dog walk path, especially if it identifies the source of the trash. I am good at navigating the bureaucracy to report you. 110
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 10/05/2026The funny thing is it literally asks me about this in the onboarding flow! Terminal stages of Software Brain where humans must adapt to software limitations instead of software supporting living. 010
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 10/05/2026I find it amusing that the @garmin.com Coach product won’t let you build a plan that fits your life and instead insists that your life fits into their constraints. 100
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 08/05/2026New LLM models are going to generate an amount of work to address newly-detected flaws in existing codebases that will be equivalent to Meltdown/Spectre. The next six months are going to be limited in feature development for all browsers and OSes. hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behi... 020
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 05/05/2026And then the surprisingly long walk from the station to the entrance. 051
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 20/04/2026Just noticed that we have stolen the Space Needle. Sorry not sorry, Seattle. Ours now. 040
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 20/04/2026What in the AI-generated map of Hong Kong is this? 3172
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 16/04/2026I didn’t go looking for colonial history last I was there, but now I’m curious what exists in Tai O. 110
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 13/04/2026Intuit is using LLMs in TurboTax to attempt to identify bonus deductions to apply for and it is _impressively_ bad at that task. 010
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 13/04/2026This person won’t pass me off to anybody else either. 110
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 25/03/2026The French coming out of their century of humiliation: 020
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 20/03/2026Family of three who lives in Hong Kong. One born in Hong Kong of Han ancestry, one immigrant, and their kid. Who gets to wear the standard formal wear for Lunar New Year? Why or why not? 210
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 20/03/2026Gives a Euro-centric accounting of history, doesn’t engage with the present tense highly-connected multicultural world, doesn’t know me, doesn’t follow me, has quotes disabled, and has opinions on what I should say. Also doesn’t express opinions about my family. /cc @maireadeire.bsky.social 100
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 18/03/2026We've reached the Death of the Internet. AI Slop blog posts topping the search results on @duckduckgo.com and giving really, really bad advice. Rather than telling people under no circumstances to use epsom salt to make churned ice cream, the top two results suggest _using it as an ingredient_. 110
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 09/03/2026Literally just laid a giant concrete slab on top of the paving stones. 000
