I really want a new profile picture. But I’m too lazy lately to just fix myself up and make a new one.

Would still like to be photographed by someone else. I know I’m not that important, but it feels nice to see myself in the eyes of another.

🔗 InVision design collaboration services shutdown — Michael Shenkman, InVision CEO

Wow, end of an era. InVision is shutting down this 2024.

Playing 🎮 Papers, Please again today. Started it during the start of the year, and now I’m just playing to get the different endings. 😆

Installed Gluon on my phone again!

I really want to fix my link embed previews soon 😓 huhuhu. But I look at coding as work… and by night time I just want to rest and play games 😩

Made a Stuff I Use page to have all my listed referral links and other links to things I just use all on one page. I also have it on my /now page, but now I might consider removing that section here and just periodically update the new page I made 😆

I’m sorry to those who replied to my micro.blog posts back in November-December 2023 and I didn’t get to reply 🙈 I really zoned out those months, kinda recluded into my offline bubble.

I also might have to fix my notifications for replies on my phone. I think that’s also why I didn’t see them 🙃

TIL about Hotlinking as a term. Also learned that there are ways to protect yourself from it, too!

I took a peek at @rknightuk’s Toot of 88x31 GIF buttons and wondered what it meant. Also this page with a grid of GIF buttons kinda takes me back 😆

Life really is so fleeting.

I’m sorry it took me so long to check. Part of me still hopes it’s not true, but… even then, I hope you’re at a better place now. Whatever that might mean in the circumstances now.

homg it is 1AM i need to sleep XD

Noticed this quirk while adding documentation in Figma prototypes, sharing for visibility to others 😅

I wanted to type text LIKE_THIS but the Markdown detection in descriptions are too good 😆

View Figma Forum post

I hope me cleaning up the Downloads folder on my work laptop is OK. If I need a file I previously downloaded already, I can always just search through our chat history or cloud files. 😆

I aim to get back into the groove in the coming days. Just do things and deal with things as they come.

🔗 That Numbness You’re Feeling? There’s a Word for It. || Adam Grant @ The New York Times

Reading through this made me realize how I think I’ve been overwhelming myself by going the empathic route always, and probably avoiding only sympathy.

Focusing on someone else’s emotions is different from feeling them for yourself, and the latter can and will cause stress if always done.

I don’t remember when I learned subconsciously not to only give sympathy; maybe it was when the trending discussion was to prioritize understanding how others might feel, as a means to help them (?).

I’ve known myself as an empathic person for a long time. What I normally struggle with is “not caring”. On an added note, lately, a feeling of helplessness keeps coming back in waves; I usually don’t know what to do with it when it’s here, but once it ebbs away, I try to reframe it to remember that I can’t do everything for everyone. And it is what it is.

Maybe that’s kinda related to the compassion being explained here. Or how sympathy isn’t all that bad, once grounded within oneself.

Finally back at the unit 😆 I missed you, my PC!

Happy New Year!! 🎉🎊

So far I’ve done 2 out of the 4 things I listed in my previous post. So far so good!

I’ll probably only do one more out of the remaining 2, or just keep at it until 2024 starts. But that’s okay! At least I got to do some stuff 😆

chenen! halatang tinahi, pero goal naman is mawala butas. solb 👍😂

Chi's red shorts that previously had a hole in it, now sewn back closed. Some of the threads used in her patchwork are visible, and the sewing isn't that clean, but the hole is not present anymore.

habang technically away from PC ako, pansasamantalahin ko na oras at itatahi ko yung mga butas ng mga pambahay ko (kahit di ganun kaganda) 😆🪡

Chi has one of her red shorts with a big hole in it on her lap, and next to her knee is a sewing kit with a bunch of different colored threads and other sewing materials in the black clutch bag.

Watched GomBurZa with Karen today! Super on a whim, nasa Megamall na ako and was telling her “oh just lmk if u wanna hang” tapos nung sinabi niya yung movie I’m just like, “g” 😂

Nice film! Grabe talaga ginawa kina GomBurZa. I think more Filipinos should watch this film.

Selfie of Chi and Karen in front of the big movie poster for GomBurZa.