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Interactive 3D Cutaway of 'Silo'

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 17:16:52 -0700

I watched the first episode of Silo in 2021 and have been wondering about just how the Silo functions and works. It has appeared an engineering marvel to build and sustain.

If you haven’t watched the show, I highly recommend it. But independently, this interactive 3D view of the Silo (spoiler warning!) that Charly Delaroche built is extremely impressive.

Via Matt Birchler.

UN Adopts the Equal Earth Projection World Map

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:52:13 -0700

I still remember how I felt sometime in ~2010 when I learnt that the map I had entrenched in my brain wasn’t accurate. An episode from The West Wing taught me that (short clip). Since then, I’ve been looking at all world maps and thinking: ‘Nope, that’s the wrong size’.

I’ve had a world map on my wall since 2018, and it reminds me of how wrong the proportions of most countries’ projections are. I’ve been looking for a larger replacement for the last 5 months and hoping that a non-Mercator one shows up in my searches with no luck so far.

iPhone 5 is Obsolete

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:51:25 -0700

On March 16, 2026, Apple updated its vintage and obsolete products list and added iPhone 5 to the obsolete list.

iPhone 5 was my first iPhone. I haven’t been actively using it for over 9 years at this point (I still pull it out of the drawer and hold it every few months), but seeing the news story just reminded me of my old phone, and the memories.

From my former self:

The joy of using an iPhone is in the little things, like not having to press a button when you’ve entered your 4-digit passcode, the way the speaker and earphones volumes always is controlled separately, the way you see the brightness slider slides subtly to low or high when the light in the room changes. The small ways in which when you use it, you know someone at Apple has spent their time making it just right. You can’t always put your finger on it, but you realize you’re accustomed to that care, so much that may be even pampered, even when you temporarily use someone else’s phone.

Archived Blogs

Sat, 30 Nov 2019 22:41:27 -0700

I have been guilty of not updating some of my old blogs for years now. Namely, my ‘Unwind’ and ‘I Talk Tech’ blogs. Even though they were unused, I still had to maintain their WordPress installations over the years as I migrated across web hosts and migrations. It was laborious to keep updating WordPress to the latest version for zero-traffic web blogs.

Today, I finally migrated them off a static WordPress installation that I had moved to a few months back (that was riddled with broken links and no theme CSS), to my Tumblr. My old posts from ‘I Talk Tech’ are now available here, and from ‘Unwind’ are here. In the future, I expect my tech and leisure posts to be posted right here, so Tumblr only exists as a dump for my previous posts.