27 May, 2026

One of the things I like best about blogs is that posts stick around (or at least they should). I enjoy scrolling through historic posts of bloggers and reading about what they were thinking about 1, 5, or even 10 years ago—if I'm lucky.

I've noticed that my most recent posts get the more attention than the rest of my blog. This makes sense, as I have the most recent 5 posts on my homepage, alongside the fact that newer posts go out to my email subscribers and are more likely to find themselves on link aggregators, Twitter feeds, and RSS readers.

I'd like to take this opportunity to resurface some posts you may have missed, or may enjoy revisiting. I also encourage you, if you happen to be a blogger, to do the same. There's so much great writing buried by more recent posts that could do with some additional attention. This is also the reason I've added a Random tab to the discovery feed.

I recently got back from a month-long trip to Japan where Emma and I visited some of the big cities, but spent most of our time in rural Japan and hiked a well-preserved portion of the Nakasendo trail. While in Japan, I had the privilege of meeting up with some bloggers: Seio for some tea in a lovely old tea house in Tokyo, and Daiki for some delicious okonomiyaki in Kyoto. Thanks to both of you!

With that in mind, I'd like to resurface the post Yes, I will have coffee with you where I invite people to meet up with me, if we happen to be in the same city. I love meeting new people, and enjoy the opportunity to share my city, or take part in theirs.

The second post I'd like to resurface is Why I started journaling, and its follow up Observations on 6 years of journaling. I still journal daily, however since 2024 this has been in one large text file instead of disparate physical journals. I write about this in Plain text journaling.

There are a few posts I wrote about city design, which is a topic that has always fascinated me. I have a WIP post about Japanese city design, and what makes their cities interesting and easy to traverse. With that in mind here is a tongue-in-cheek post on The future of self-driving, and my Thoughts on buying a car. One note: I no longer drive the teensy orange car. It turns out that at highway speeds it got so loud in the cabin (due to its lunchbox shape) that I had to wear noise-cancelling earphones to be comfortable.

Related is a post on how Roundabouts improve cities for everyone, for those of us not graced with efficient public transport.

And finally, off the back of completing a 45km trail run through the Drakensberg mountains (post incoming as well), I'd like to resurface A case for socks with toes where I champion toe socks. These were extremely helpful in preventing blisters and other discomforts on my run, and the post is worthy of a bump up.

There are so many other posts that I put a lot of time and love into that I haven't mentioned here. If you're interested in checking them out, I encourage you to browse my blog page.

As a side note: In putting this post together I reread so many old posts of mine that I'd forgotten about. It's interesting and delightful seeing what I was doing and thinking at certain times over the past few years, which echoes the sentiment of Valentine's post from yesterday.