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