According to one online survey i am an emmental cheese. I like overnight trains and fresh air. My interests are religion, music, art, and design. This site is ugly because i hate fun.
I highly encourage you to email me at noa@meanwhiling.com.
Writing 2026-06-12
Moving on from beets 2026-06-11
One general purpose computer is enough for me 2026-06-10
Getting in on junited 2026-06-09
DJ Ahmet (2025) 2026-06-09
It’s okay to make mistakes, they say 2026-06-07
Mars Express (2023) 2026-06-07
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) 2026-06-07
Show notes #1,262 2026-06-06
A Visit from the Goon Squad 2026-06-04
The Jerk (1979) 2026-06-03
Fack ju Göhte (2013) 2026-06-03
I’m not choosing european tech 2026-06-02
Hosting with fastmail 2026-06-01
Temptress Moon (1996) 2026-05-31
Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life 2026-05-31
Show notes #1,261 2026-05-29
Project Hail Mary (2026) 2026-05-28
不说话的爱 MuMu (2025) 2026-05-27
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) 2026-05-27
Trance (2013) 2026-05-26
A Poet (2025) 2026-05-26
Lost in Translation (2003) 2026-05-26
In which we split the channels 2026-05-26
Despite everything, i still prefer friends of mineral town over stardew valley 2026-05-25
The Lizard (2004) 2026-05-25
Weird button mappings on an xbox controller on linux 2026-05-24
Show notes #1,260 2026-05-22
Personal web site, version thirty 2026-05-22
Frances Ha (2012) 2026-05-22
Notes on Blindness (2017) 2026-05-21
May i recommend using your thumbs 2026-05-17
The Lighthouse (2019) 2026-05-17
Show notes #1,259 2026-05-15
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) 2026-05-13
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 2026-05-12
Amélie (2001) 2026-05-10
Show notes #1,258 2026-05-09
The body snatchers 2026-05-09
l’Art de la Simplicite 2026-05-07
My first fours update: sister act 2026-05-07
Sister Act 2026-05-07
Stand By Me 2026-05-05
The color purple (1985) 2026-05-05
Automatically unlocking my password database 2026-05-04
Fried green tomatoes 2026-05-03
Show notes #1,257 2026-05-01
The last holiday (2006) 2026-04-30
Who knows that you blog? 2026-04-30
I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China by Zhu Wen 2026-04-29
It’s exciting to update on linux 2026-04-28
Nirvanna the band the show the movie 2026-04-27
I too, no longer listen to podcasts 2026-04-26
Show notes #1,256 2026-04-25
Calendering 2026-04-24
Johnny Mnemonic (1995) 2026-04-24
Hollow knight is not for me 2026-04-23
A quick note on this site 2026-04-22
I’m a socialist, subscribe to my substack 2026-04-21
Beyond pixel art 2026-04-20
The Handmaiden (2016) 2026-04-19
Show notes #1,255 2026-04-18
Wiktionary, the best three gigabytes on my phone 2026-04-17
Road Trip (2000) 2026-04-16
A nice place to read 2026-04-15
Listing my fours 2026-04-14
My favourite kind of interface 2026-04-13
Scent of a Woman (1992) 2026-04-12
Show notes #1,254 2026-04-11
Jeune & Jolie (2013) 2026-04-10
A Beautiful Mind (2001) 2026-04-08
Four Lions (2010) 2026-04-07
Happy Together (1997) 2026-04-05
Show notes #1,253 2026-04-05
Decision to Leave (2022) 2026-04-02
Big Fish (2003) 2026-03-31
BlackBerry (2023) 2026-03-29
Show notes #1,252 2026-03-28
Ocean’s Eleven (2001) 2026-03-27
Where did all the fitness bands go? 2026-03-26
Midnight in Paris (2011) 2026-03-25
Desert Flower (2009) 2026-03-24
Not everyone can write like Hemingway 2026-03-23
Experimenting with a home jukebox 2026-03-22
Show notes #1,251 2026-03-21
No thank you i will not change how i write so you don’t think i am an llm 2026-03-20
Shortbus (2006) 2026-03-19
A metro should enhance walking through a city 2026-03-18
Memories of Murder (2003) 2026-03-17
If your game cares about dvorak, thank you 2026-03-16
Eddington (2025) 2026-03-15
Show notes #1,250 2026-03-14
Frankenstein (2025) 2026-03-14
A Separation (2011) 2026-03-13
Itemising my amendments 2026-03-12
“Format shifting” and …unofficial channels 2026-03-11
You don’t not need the mouse 2026-03-10
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 2026-03-09
A history of archival failure 2026-03-08
The social network (2010) 2026-03-08
Show notes #1,249 2026-03-07
Mustang (2015) 2026-03-06
KDE doesn’t have an app community 2026-03-05
Now playing 2026-03-04
Snowden (2016) 2026-03-03
A metric time compromise: the centiday 2026-03-02
Coins in item blocks make mario kart worse 2026-03-01
Show notes #1,248 2026-02-28
All i really want to do is poke around in caves 2026-02-27
Engraving sheet music with lilypond 2026-02-26
I Swear (2025) 2026-02-25
I like savoury porridge now 2026-02-24
The Wicker Man (1973) 2026-02-24
Mad Max (1979) 2026-02-23
The Two Lives of Li Ermao (2019) 2026-02-22
Show notes #1,247 2026-02-21
I lost a handbag in suzhou 2026-02-20
Black mirror mirror on the wall 2026-02-19
花样年华 In the mood for love 2026-02-18
霸王别姬 Farewell my concubine (1993) 2026-02-17
Pancake day 2026-02-15
Show notes #1,246 2026-02-14
Soul (2020) 2026-02-13
Marty Supreme (2025) 2026-02-12
A Useful Ghost (2025) 2026-02-11
There’s something to be said about things getting bigger 2026-02-11
Minority Report (2002) 2026-02-10
O Agente Secreto (2025) 2026-02-08
Show notes #1,245 2026-02-06
Notes on mario kart, eden, lutris, and mods 2026-02-06
Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) 2026-02-03
Whiplash (2014) 2026-02-01
Show notes #1,244 2026-01-31
One computer that fits right in your pocket 2026-01-30
A new notebook 2026-01-29
The meaning of life 2026-01-28
A few guidelines for local multiplayer games 2026-01-27
A short list of good games 2026-01-26
Free Guy (2021) 2026-01-25
Show notes #1,243 2026-01-24
Maybe you should stop using twitter now 2026-01-23
Sinners (2025) 2026-01-22
An approach to using anki for chinese language study 2026-01-21
Hit the road (2021) 2026-01-20
The most important thing is to take the words out of my head and to put them into sentences 2026-01-19
Making things liquid, again 2026-01-18
Show notes #1,242 2026-01-17
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) 2026-01-17
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) 2026-01-16
The eternal struggle against org’s overenthusiastic keybindings 2026-01-15
The Corpse Bride (2005) 2026-01-15
They Live (1988) 2026-01-14
All the fun comes from item identification, but it’s scary so i never do it 2026-01-13
All my rss on one page 2026-01-12
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 2026-01-12
Show notes #1,241 2026-01-10
A series of tiktok vignettes from the metro 2026-01-09
“Beamering” as a subversive act 2026-01-08
Robot Dreams (2023) 2026-01-07
Nativity! (2009) 2026-01-06
There are only people in my inbox 2026-01-05
This is just to say: vegan food is very cheap 2026-01-04
Show notes #1,240 2026-01-04
The velocipastor 2026-01-03
Coraline (2009) 2026-01-02
Comic sans-core 2026-01-01
To Wong Foo, thank you for everything! Julie Newmar (1995) 2026-01-01
Thank you mum and dad for teaching me to love vegetables 2025-12-30
A person of emacs: acdw 2025-12-29
Reading highlights, 2025 2025-12-28
The gods must be crazy (1980) 2025-12-28
Show notes #1,239 2025-12-27
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 2025-12-26
Youtube rss channels without shorts 2025-12-25
Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk 2025-12-24
Further thoughts on learning with texts tools 2025-12-23
I would cry on your shoulder if only you would let me (cry on your shoulder) 2025-12-22
Do more less perfect things 2025-12-21
Show notes #1,238 2025-12-21
The virgin suicides (1999) 2025-12-20
Snow crash by Neal Stephenson 2025-12-19
Discovering new music without the algorithm 2025-12-16
A short trip to Xiamen 2025-12-14
Show notes #1,237 2025-12-11
Meditations on well-designed things: the rice cooker 2025-12-10
A new rss strategy 2025-12-09
The infragility of emacs packages 2025-12-08
The well designed watch 2025-12-07
Show notes #1,236 2025-12-06
Colours and the huge peak, black and huge 2025-12-05
Zootopia 2 (2025) 2025-12-04
The color of pomegranates (1969) 2025-12-02
Thoughts on niagara launcher 2025-11-30
Show notes #1,235 2025-11-29
湖州短途游 2025-11-26
Robotrix (1991) 2025-11-25
The Hobbit: Book Edit (2021) 2025-11-24
Show notes #1,234 2025-11-24
Return to Oz (1985) 2025-11-12
This is England (2006) 2025-11-08
Charlie’s angels (2000) 2025-10-30
(500) Days of Summer (2009) 2025-10-26
High Fidelity (2000) 2025-10-23
Using the KDE file picker with GTK applications 2025-10-23
Trainspotting (1996) 2025-10-20
How to write academic things really fast 2025-10-03
Taste of Cherry (1997) 2025-09-29
An obscure emacs package: elastic indent mode 2025-09-23
Emacs is a pretty bad user interface but at least it’s still the same user interface 2025-09-07
Police story (1985) 2025-09-06
Ne Zha 2 (2025) 2025-09-05
Ne Zha (2019) 2025-09-04
A better tomorrow (1986) 2025-09-03
Chungking express 2025-09-02
Hard boiled 2025-08-31
Kung fu hustle 2025-08-31
Poetry and prose 2025-08-30
Grandson from america 2025-08-29
Blue velvet (1986) 2025-08-01
Converting pdfs to cbz files 2025-07-06
Support for the netflix rating system 2025-06-28
Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) 2025-06-21
酱园弄·悬案 She’s got no name (2024) 2025-05-19
Eurotrip (2004) 2025-03-10
Mickey 17 (2025) 2025-03-09
The road to el dorado (2000) 2025-02-08
Hunt for the wilderpeople (2016) 2025-02-07
Judas and the black messiah (2021) 2025-02-07
Boiling point (2021) 2025-02-05
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) 2025-02-05
Carry On (2024) 2025-02-04
The wild robot (2024) 2025-02-02
The usual suspects (1995) 2025-02-01
Scary movie (2000) 2025-01-28
Finding a balance between offline friction and convenience 2025-01-27
The holdovers (2023) 2025-01-26
The dictator (2012) 2025-01-25
Anora (2024) 2025-01-19
Cunk on life (2024) 2025-01-17
Queer (2024) 2025-01-16
Paddington in Peru (2024) 2025-01-13
Help! My internet disappeared! 2024-12-03
Yuriko Saito — Neglect of everyday aesthetics 2024-11-28
Hu Niu as Xiangzi’s foil 2024-11-27
World music 2024-10-15
Hu Shi’s “Butterflies” 2024-10-03
The sinking of the Lisbon Maru (2023) 2024-09-23
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick 2024-09-09
The perfect sandwich 2024-08-09
Look both ways 2024-08-08
The search for a forever language 2024-06-16
Under Paris (2024) 2024-06-15
Parasite (2019) 2024-06-13
Re: Graydon Hoare - Always bet on text 2024-06-09
Re: Ruben Berenguel — The magic of not using the enter key 2024-06-09
RE: The magic of not using the enter key 2024-05-06
Interesting objects and art 2023-10-26
Slices of language 2023-10-08
Applications for creating and consuming 2023-10-08
Shell language and programming languages 2023-10-06
Lingq is toxic 2023-09-29
Focusing on time spent over outcome 2023-09-19
Thoughts on learning with texts tools 2023-09-11
A short thought on using pinyin instead of characters 2023-07-22
Tabbed spatial file management 2023-06-21
太极拳和西方古典音乐 2023-06-13
Falalalalanguage 2023-06-13
Gender and identity in Mother 3 2023-06-13
If i owned a pretentious restaurant 2022-09-01
The time is ripe to be formed by music 2022-08-22
Evolution of a dream interface 2022-08-17
Essays as discourse 2022-08-01
User interface design in restaurant-facing food delivery apps 2021-12-23
Does writing with less words really make things easier to understand? 2021-12-18
The wonder of nothing 2021-12-18
A saturnalia piece 2021-12-15
A paraphrase of obadiah’s vision 2021-12-02
Gemini loses out on the best part of the web 2021-11-12
Wisdom from my mother 2021-02-10
An atonement of nano 2020-11-20
Tank lobsters 2020-09-17
The magical time that is today and tomorrow 2020-06-01
On the road by Jack Kerouac 2019-11-21
Email is a really nice interface 2019-04-30
Inception and emacs 
