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
- Moving on from beets
- One general purpose computer is enough for me
- Getting in on junited
- DJ Ahmet (2025)
- It’s okay to make mistakes, they say
- Mars Express (2023)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
- Show notes #1,262
- A Visit from the Goon Squad
- The Jerk (1979)
- Fack ju Göhte (2013)
- I’m not choosing european tech
- Hosting with fastmail
- Temptress Moon (1996)
- Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life
- Show notes #1,261
- Project Hail Mary (2026)
- 不说话的爱 MuMu (2025)
- Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
- Trance (2013)
- A Poet (2025)
- Lost in Translation (2003)
- In which we split the channels
- Despite everything, i still prefer friends of mineral town over stardew valley
- The Lizard (2004)
- Weird button mappings on an xbox controller on linux
- Show notes #1,260
- Personal web site, version thirty
- Frances Ha (2012)
- Notes on Blindness (2017)
- May i recommend using your thumbs
- The Lighthouse (2019)
- Show notes #1,259
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Amélie (2001)
- Show notes #1,258
- The body snatchers
- l’Art de la Simplicite
- My first fours update: sister act
- Sister Act
- Stand By Me
- The color purple (1985)
- Automatically unlocking my password database
- Fried green tomatoes
- Show notes #1,257
- The last holiday (2006)
- Who knows that you blog?
- I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China by Zhu Wen
- It’s exciting to update on linux
- Nirvanna the band the show the movie
- I too, no longer listen to podcasts
- Show notes #1,256
- Calendering
- Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
- Hollow knight is not for me
- A quick note on this site
- I’m a socialist, subscribe to my substack
- Beyond pixel art
- The Handmaiden (2016)
- Show notes #1,255
- Wiktionary, the best three gigabytes on my phone
- Road Trip (2000)
- A nice place to read
- Listing my fours
- My favourite kind of interface
- Scent of a Woman (1992)
- Show notes #1,254
- Jeune & Jolie (2013)
- A Beautiful Mind (2001)
- Four Lions (2010)
- Happy Together (1997)
- Show notes #1,253
- Decision to Leave (2022)
- Big Fish (2003)
- BlackBerry (2023)
- Show notes #1,252
- Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
- Where did all the fitness bands go?
- Midnight in Paris (2011)
- Desert Flower (2009)
- Not everyone can write like Hemingway
- Experimenting with a home jukebox
- Show notes #1,251
- No thank you i will not change how i write so you don’t think i am an llm
- Shortbus (2006)
- A metro should enhance walking through a city
- Memories of Murder (2003)
- If your game cares about dvorak, thank you
- Eddington (2025)
- Show notes #1,250
- Frankenstein (2025)
- A Separation (2011)
- Itemising my amendments
- “Format shifting” and …unofficial channels
- You don’t not need the mouse
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- A history of archival failure
- The social network (2010)
- Show notes #1,249
- Mustang (2015)
- KDE doesn’t have an app community
- Now playing
- Snowden (2016)
- A metric time compromise: the centiday
- Coins in item blocks make mario kart worse
- Show notes #1,248
- All i really want to do is poke around in caves
- Engraving sheet music with lilypond
- I Swear (2025)
- I like savoury porridge now
- The Wicker Man (1973)
- Mad Max (1979)
- The Two Lives of Li Ermao (2019)
- Show notes #1,247
- I lost a handbag in suzhou
- Black mirror mirror on the wall
- 花样年华 In the mood for love
- 霸王别姬 Farewell my concubine (1993)
- Pancake day
- Show notes #1,246
- Soul (2020)
- Marty Supreme (2025)
- A Useful Ghost (2025)
- There’s something to be said about things getting bigger
- Minority Report (2002)
- O Agente Secreto (2025)
- Show notes #1,245
- Notes on mario kart, eden, lutris, and mods
- Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)
- Whiplash (2014)
- Show notes #1,244
- One computer that fits right in your pocket
- A new notebook
- The meaning of life
- A few guidelines for local multiplayer games
- A short list of good games
- Free Guy (2021)
- Show notes #1,243
- Maybe you should stop using twitter now
- Sinners (2025)
- An approach to using anki for chinese language study
- Hit the road (2021)
- The most important thing is to take the words out of my head and to put them into sentences
- Making things liquid, again
- Show notes #1,242
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- The eternal struggle against org’s overenthusiastic keybindings
- The Corpse Bride (2005)
- They Live (1988)
- All the fun comes from item identification, but it’s scary so i never do it
- All my rss on one page
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Show notes #1,241
- A series of tiktok vignettes from the metro
- “Beamering” as a subversive act
- Robot Dreams (2023)
- Nativity! (2009)
- There are only people in my inbox
- This is just to say: vegan food is very cheap
- Show notes #1,240
- The velocipastor
- Coraline (2009)
- Comic sans-core
- To Wong Foo, thank you for everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
- Thank you mum and dad for teaching me to love vegetables
- A person of emacs: acdw
- Reading highlights, 2025
- The gods must be crazy (1980)
- Show notes #1,239
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
- Youtube rss channels without shorts
- Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk
- Further thoughts on learning with texts tools
- I would cry on your shoulder if only you would let me (cry on your shoulder)
- Do more less perfect things
- Show notes #1,238
- The virgin suicides (1999)
- Snow crash by Neal Stephenson
- Discovering new music without the algorithm
- A short trip to Xiamen
- Show notes #1,237
- Meditations on well-designed things: the rice cooker
- A new rss strategy
- The infragility of emacs packages
- The well designed watch
- Show notes #1,236
- Colours and the huge peak, black and huge
- Zootopia 2 (2025)
- The color of pomegranates (1969)
- Thoughts on niagara launcher
- Show notes #1,235
- 湖州短途游
- Robotrix (1991)
- The Hobbit: Book Edit (2021)
- Show notes #1,234
- Return to Oz (1985)
- This is England (2006)
- Charlie’s angels (2000)
- (500) Days of Summer (2009)
- High Fidelity (2000)
- Using the KDE file picker with GTK applications
- Trainspotting (1996)
- How to write academic things really fast
- Taste of Cherry (1997)
- An obscure emacs package: elastic indent mode
- Emacs is a pretty bad user interface but at least it’s still the same user interface
- Police story (1985)
- Ne Zha 2 (2025)
- Ne Zha (2019)
- A better tomorrow (1986)
- Chungking express
- Hard boiled
- Kung fu hustle
- Poetry and prose
- Grandson from america
- Blue velvet (1986)
- Converting pdfs to cbz files
- Support for the netflix rating system
- Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
- 酱园弄·悬案 She’s got no name (2024)
- Eurotrip (2004)
- Mickey 17 (2025)
- The road to el dorado (2000)
- Hunt for the wilderpeople (2016)
- Judas and the black messiah (2021)
- Boiling point (2021)
- The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
- Carry On (2024)
- The wild robot (2024)
- The usual suspects (1995)
- Scary movie (2000)
- Finding a balance between offline friction and convenience
- The holdovers (2023)
- The dictator (2012)
- Anora (2024)
- Cunk on life (2024)
- Queer (2024)
- Paddington in Peru (2024)
- Help! My internet disappeared!
- Yuriko Saito — Neglect of everyday aesthetics
- Hu Niu as Xiangzi’s foil
- World music
- Hu Shi’s “Butterflies”
- The sinking of the Lisbon Maru (2023)
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- The perfect sandwich
- Look both ways
- The search for a forever language
- Under Paris (2024)
- Parasite (2019)
- Re: Graydon Hoare - Always bet on text
- Re: Ruben Berenguel — The magic of not using the enter key
- RE: The magic of not using the enter key
- Interesting objects and art
- Slices of language
- Applications for creating and consuming
- Shell language and programming languages
- Lingq is toxic
- Focusing on time spent over outcome
- Thoughts on learning with texts tools
- A short thought on using pinyin instead of characters
- Tabbed spatial file management
- 太极拳和西方古典音乐
- Falalalalanguage
- Gender and identity in Mother 3
- If i owned a pretentious restaurant
- The time is ripe to be formed by music
- Evolution of a dream interface
- Essays as discourse
- User interface design in restaurant-facing food delivery apps
- Does writing with less words really make things easier to understand?
- The wonder of nothing
- A saturnalia piece
- A paraphrase of obadiah’s vision
- Gemini loses out on the best part of the web
- Wisdom from my mother
- An atonement of nano
- Tank lobsters
- The magical time that is today and tomorrow
- On the road by Jack Kerouac
- Email is a really nice interface
- Inception and emacs