I have limited myself to not setting any constraints.
Haha I love this
Readit Newsitsmemattchung commented on Successful people set constraints rather than chasing goals joanwestenberg.com/smart-... · Posted by u/MaysonL
itsmemattchung commented on Why America now eats a crazy number of avocados wsj.com/business/avocado-... · Posted by u/fortran77
Thanks for sharing the link. Had no clue. Funny how things came about to be; who would've known that salmon wasn't part of the foundational sushi dishes until this occurred.
Used to take quite high doses of LSD, and often had incredible visual hallucinations. Things like watching a large plant sprout flower buds all over it, which slowly expanded to full bloom and then retreated back to small buds; the whole experience went on like that for 20 minutes. Another time I hallucinated that a neighbor's house was on fire, until my friend said she was hallucinating the same thing. Fortunately, the fire brigade showed up quickly to quench the very real flames, without us having to ring them.
Holy hell that was hilarious. I can totally see that happening:
"Hey, I'm hallucinating that that house is on fire."
"Whoa, me too."
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itsmemattchung commented on My Trip to Quit Sugar Quickly Became a Journey into Hell nytimes.com/2025/01/25/ma... · Posted by u/gmays
That was pretty funny. Not sure what I took from it, but I like her sense of humor.
> Had he been American, I could have conveyed the depth, breadth and velocity of my sugar consumption with a single concept: Cookie Monster, but less particular. Did they have “Sesame Street” in Austria? I feared confusing him if I asked. To play it safe, I said something even more bewildering: “Picture a monster that just ate candy all day long. That’s me.”
> Whether because of jet lag or a shortfall of resuscitative sugar compounds careering through my bloodstream, by lunchtime the first day I was so leadenly tired — even though the only other tasks I had accomplished so far were stripping off my spandex workout clothes to have my body rubbed with salt like a chicken carcass and stripping them off a second time to have my body rubbed with oil like a potato carcass
Stunning writing that had me laughing out loud throughout the entire article.
itsmemattchung commented on Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar github.com/exelban/stats... · Posted by u/LeoPanthera
Alright, bet. Wanna make your Mac menu bar less clunky? Here’s the tea. Pop these commands in your terminal to tighten it up:
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 8
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int 8
defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing
defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding
Thank you for sharing this. Presumably the item spacing with too large (by default) and as such, many of the icons would not display. This fixed it! Appreciate the suggestion
itsmemattchung commented on Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch byran.ee/posts/creation/... · Posted by u/Hello9999901
Just skimmed the YouTube video and I'm blown away as well ... anytime my ego needs to get checked, I just scroll through HN posts. Truly impressive
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itsmemattchung commented on Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it? · Posted by u/namanyayg
I dropped all the "branding" (what for me, I consider) non sense and when I killed off expectations and how I wanted to be perceived (online), I felt more liberated, my perfectionism quieted down (it's still lingering there), experienced less procrastination, and just starting writing again and more motivated to write for an audience of one: me.
Though I used to predominately write about tech, these days I write about my dance journey and that in itself has connected me with people all over the world, many people saying they found (house) dance classes in London via a Google Search and my tiny little blog sits at ranking #1. Totally unanticipated. Every time I have 1 person (IRL) come up to me at some event or class or workshop, I'm reminded that maintaining my blog is worth it.
itsmemattchung commented on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025? · Posted by u/meridion
Cool to see more dancers on HN! I'm gettin into it more myself, I was wondering if you could share the software you used in some of your shorts to practice dance?
Totally! Feel free to message me either on Instagram (@memattchung) or email: matt@mattchung.me
I'm assuming you are referring to the software that I wrote that blurts out certain (house dance) moves to help practice foundation and transitions?
I bet a majority of people who can ride a bicycle don't know how they steer, and would describe the physical movements they use to initiate and terminate a turn inaccurately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersteering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0