YouTube video: Link “Happy birthday” video. [That “thank you” song, real catchy.] Today is all about Apple Watch and iPhone. Recap about the new Macs (the Studio, the Pro, and the 15" MacBook Air). Much flexing about the 15, I feel like. Vision Pro, ships “early next year”. [I’d forgotten, got excited all over again!] Watch Series 9 “Most popular watch”. [How did you know?] Apple silicon (S9 SiP) in the Series 9.

Today I launched Apollo, a 3rd-party client for Reddit, and saw, to my dismay, an update from Apollo’s developer. The following is an excerpt from his post on the Apollo App subreddit: … 50 million requests costs $12,000, a figure far more than I ever could have imagined. Apollo made 7 billion requests last month, which would put it at about 1.7 million dollars per month, or 20 million US dollars per year.

The browser history tells me I’ve visted this FFmpeg HOWTO page many times as I get handy with the tool: My brain works on absolute, not relative, time so I’d much rather be able to directly indicate when to start cutting -ss, and when to stop -to; I also want to only copy the original video/audio, without any re-encoding, hence the -c:v copy -c:a copy part. Putting it all together: we take some input file foo.

Last year, around the start of the pandemic, I built a PC for myself. Over time, my setup grew to encompass an ultrawide monitor, and a bunch of USB peripherals, so here’s everything appended to the original table. The total cost went up, now it’s exactly SGD 2297 (previously: 1297.10): Part Price GPU MSI GTX 1650 SUPER VENTUS XS OC 4GB 259 CPU AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 181 HSF Stock 0 MotherBoard MSI B450M MORTAR MAX 180 RAM Corsair VENGEANCE PRO 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4-3200MHZ 252 HDD None 0 SSD Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus (500 GB) 199 Power Supply Corsair VS650 80 PLUS 92 Case Cooler Master Silencio S600 134.

Preamble I believe many other Singaporean families are in a similar situation, and I’m publishing this story not to name and shame anyone, but to raise awareness and perhaps kickstart an honest-to-goodness conversation about the red tape we’ve encountered thus far. Email #1 My family wrote in to complain feedback about our inability to select a date – any entry date, for that matter – when applying for our incoming domestic helper to serve her stay home notice.

COVID-19-related lockdowns, have, to say the least, put a damper on spirits. I’m going to (try to) post more frequently, not necessarily technical topics that no one will read, probably random photos, or media I’m stealing from Reddit – with a credit whenever possible. Here’s the 1st one, a shot of the sky at Marina Barrage, a popular kite-flying venue, and if you’ll squint a bit, you can even see the moon: