Paul S. Chun 🐻

@psc
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Maintainer of https://writehoney.com. Korean-Usonian dad in Berlin currently on loan to marketing from software development. Still finding out how to live between "Perfect is the enemy of good" and "Make every day your masterpiece."
Homepagehttps://paul.chuns.org/
State BirdYellow-Billed Magpie
State FlowerForget-Me-Not
State StateImmutable

I've heard "Faith" by George Michael (and its covers) in passing probably at least 100 times by now, and still the only two things I recall about it are:

1. Not everybody has a body like George Michael
2. You gotta have faith

And I still have no idea how that first concept ends up getting linked to the second, but I know it somehow does

Dear Paul from twenty-five years ago,

You know Afroman, whose name is synonymous with that one-hit wonder about being high? You won't hear about him for twenty-five years. Then one day he'll suddenly emerge an important USAnian folk hero

And you know that important USAnian folk hero Cesar Chavez? You won't think about him for twenty-five years. Then one day he'll suddenly be revealed as a serial sexual abuser and his name will be tarnished overnight

Also this will happen on the same day

I played basketball with a high school classmate a few years after we graduated. He was muscular but out of shape and overweight, and was hard to recognize.

I just found out that he's now an Instagram fitness influencer with millions (!) of followers.

I'm not crazy about Instagram, but I feel energized knowing he did some serious soul searching in the last years and it seems like things are going well for him after doubling down on his health.

May we all learn to do that better.

What we get upset about. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

#GasPrices #oil #OilPrices #Iran

Woke up to seeing Kobe's seemingly bulletproof modern scoring record get broken by someone very unexpected.

With the following hints, I still wouldn't have guessed who broke it:

1. Eastern conference (Jalen Brunson?)
2. Also played at the Olympics previously (Jayson Tatum?)
3. Also has a Yoruba last name (Giannis Antetokounmpo?)

Thanks to Bam Adebayo for the inspired performance - feels like the Steph Curry era is over, even if it's not clear what exactly is replacing it.

Bluesky's Jay Graber is stepping down as CEO, moving to a position called "Chief Innovation Officer."

Investors are leading the search for a new CEO.

Jay did a superhuman job of creating a sense of FOMO at a time when everyone wanted Twitter but didn't want to be on Twitter, at a time when the technology behind Twitter was basically a commodity.

Commence the inevitable enshittification that will inevitably find its way to Mastodon.

I'm a bit surprised to say that, after many years of being at best neutral about them, I've recently become an #apple fanboy 😊

I used to find them a bit distasteful, but after some effort and experimentation, I'm really happy with where I landed. And I have to say, compared to the alternatives, their availability and convenience makes a big difference.

My favorite cultivar is #jonagold, but that's probably because it's easy to find where I live. I'm sure many of you are apple fans as well, let me know your cultivar recs!

I absolutely love tests.

I very much like TDD.

I don't much like dogmatic adherence to TDD.

I absolutely hate 100% test coverage.

I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.

I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.