Father, Dancer, Writer, Engineer
- Haha I love this
- 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.
- 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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- > 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.
- 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
- 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
- Okay. not knowing anything about this film, not ever hearing or seeing it, I just clicked on that diner scene and holy f*ck, that was terrifying. and thank you :)
- 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.
- 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?
- My career (over the span of 15 years) has been non-linear. I started with web development initially and slowly worked my way down the stack, writing C while at was at AWS (virtual private cloud).
- Thanks so much for the thought! Email would be great: matt@mattchung.me
I also see your details in your HN profile so will ping you separately
- Non-technical skills
* (Continue) Dancing - Beginning of 2023, I got into street style dance and movement (including stretching which I've done now for the past 223 days) helped me get through one of the most challenging periods of my life (i.e. divorced with a child, moved from U.S. to London to single raise my daughter). Dance has now taken its life of its own and I'm finding myself competing in dance "battles" as a way to test and grow my mental fortitude.
Technical skills
* UI Design - as a low level (i.e. C developer), I currently lack the skills to make my own little toy web apps more aesthetically pleasing for not just me, but to share with others
* Photography and videography - want to increase my current level(s) since I started a YouTube channel documenting my dance journey and also create little reels for community events
* (maybe) Rust or C++
[0] - Example of dance related YouTube shorts I make: https://youtube.com/shorts/cI2LAe-MMrw
- That makes sense given you've been in the scene for some time. At the same time, I think both are true: scene is "good" compared to other geographic locations of where I am from (i.e. Seattle Washington).
- Fellow (house) dancer here and couldn't agree with you more. Luckily, however, I recently relocated to London and though I rarely stay out late these days, I did go to a venue called Fabric and I bring this because there's a policy (moderately enforced) of "no phones" and in fact, prior to entering, they will place little stickers on camera lens. Of course, some individuals will inevitably whip out their phones to capture a video or photo, at which point an (disguised as civilian) employee will demand that they put their phone away. So again, moderately enforced.
All that is to say, dance in clubs still exists...just rare to find.
- Awesome article and glad you pointed towards the YouTube video, where Lovelock was interviewed, which ultimately answered my question: can Cryogenics be used to freeze humans? According to that fascinating and interesting video, answer (for now) is no because "it's partly a matter of how quickly you can get anti-freeze agent to diffuse into the cells ... humans too big."
- Ultimately, I think this article is about having self-compassion. Yes, sometimes a little perseverance goes a long way. Yes, things are a handful of things we "have" to do. However, I appreciate that the author is practicing giving himself grace. We all start reading book that were excited about and sometimes "abandoning" the book is the right call. In that way, I like how the author of the blog post created a "stepped-away" book shelf on their goodread profile.
- I agree with you regarding the rising value of a home year of year compared to the salary increasing. That being said
> and I have never placed the security of a job above the value of home
I think what the author was referring to was not the value of [a] home (i.e. equity in the house) but the concept of a home as it relates to family.
- According to the article, once the case was tossed out by the judge, "Deputy Commissioner Krissy Barrett apparently felt the officers might possibly feel bad about what they’d done, so she took the time to assure them that they were still a valuable part of the AFP’s radicalization program Joint Counter-Terrorism Task Force":
“It is really important to note that this was a very difficult and complex investigation for everyone involved, and one which threw up many challenges,” she said in the email. “I recognise and thank everyone involved for their tenacity, professionalism and commitment to duty. “I also use this opportunity to acknowledge the fantastic work that our covert online operatives do, under very difficult circumstances, to keep the community safe.” - > In a similar twist of misinterpretation, when you said it "is an interesting headline for dating a person" I was thinking of romantic courtship.
That's exactly how I interpreted their sentence as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0