Posts by Allen Cheung
Post-COVID
One of the truisms of pandemics is that they're a function of public health, which means that their duration relies on public perception as much as it does on, say, the actual science of the virus. Hell, our…
Building a Mechanical Keyboard
I've geeked out on keyboards here, specifically the Kinesis Advantage line of ergonomic keyboards; I've also geeked out mechanical watches. So it's inevitable, preordained even, that I'll geek out on mechanical keyboards…
Cloud Gaming as a Feature
So last week, pretty much to no one's surprise, Google announced that they'll be shutting down their gaming streaming service Stadia by January next year. Even at launch, aside from the rocky launch of the service…
Review: Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters
If there's a category of literature that's invites more skepticism than self-help books, it may be self-help parenting books. The genre combines the pseudo-science of pop psychology and copious amounts of anecdotal evidence,…
Myth-making in Video Games
I've been putting in a good chunk of hours into my PS5 recently making my way through one of the best games of the year, Horizon: Forbidden West. It's a worthy successor to 2017's…
A Sense of Accomplishment
Productivity is one of those ideals that is both aspirational and seemingly forever just out of reach. Like some others, I was initially elamored and motivated by the prospect of optimizing my own processes to squeeze out additional output, and…
