2025-11-09
On the good school
summarizing what a good school should teach
Jon here ๐ผ๐
blogging with insight from the outside
featured
selected articles about assorted topics
2025-09-14
On re-learning things
reviewing the basics but in greater detail than the first time
2025-09-09
On action-oriented writing
placing more emphasis on verbs over nouns and on the reader
360ๅบฆ็กๆญป่ง
a Chinese phrase that tries to translate "from A to Z"
2025-03-22
Coding tutorial video pet peeves
calling tutorial videos to avoid these kinds of things
2024-09-29
On internet etiquette
the folkways of social media
๐
a life-long Canadian originally based in Toronto
insights
anything yet not everything
2025-11-09
On the good school
summarizing what a good school should teach
2025-09-14
On re-learning things
reviewing the basics but in greater detail than the first time
2025-09-13
On content ephemerality
classifying the different kinds of content
2025-09-09
On action-oriented writing
placing more emphasis on verbs over nouns and on the reader
On fandom
a way to approach spectator entertainment
2025-09-03
On re-branding
changing our identities gradually and not suddenly
๐ผ
an enjoyer of giant pandas
jonlines
songs with lines of 12-syllables posted 4 times a day (sometimes rhyming!)
lines begin lives as scheduled telegram posts and age to become "songs"
๐
an enjoyer of writing
keywords
writing about the world's words
ๅฐๅฟ้ฉถๅพไธๅนด่น
a Chinese phrase that alludes to caution
360ๅบฆ็กๆญป่ง
a Chinese phrase that tries to translate "from A to Z"
ั ะพัะพัะตะต ะฝะฐัะฐะปะพ ะฟะพะปะดะตะปะฐ ะพัะบะฐัะฐะปะพ
a Russian phrase about getting a "good start"
2025-01-19
Chinese negation
listing different ways to negate in Chinese
ไธๅผ็พๆ
a Chinese phrase about the power of connections
ไธๆ้ฎๅคฉ
a Chinese phrase about covering up the truth
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an avid traveller to 40+ countries and 4 continents
๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ญ๐น๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐จ๐ณ๐ฎ๐น๐ป๐ฆ๐ฆ๐น๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ญ๐ซ๐ท๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฑ๐ง๐ธ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ต๐ต๐ฑ๐ง๐ฌ๐ท๐ธ๐ง๐ฆ๐ญ๐ท๐ฒ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ณ๐ง๐ฟ๐ช๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ต๐น๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ช๐ซ๐ฎ๐ช๐ช๐ฑ๐ป๐ฑ๐น๐ณ๐ด
outsides
a travel blog within this blog
2025-06-29
2025 in Denmark (Copenhagen)
back to my 34th country to visit Denmark's capital
2025-06-27
2025 in Norway (Oslo)
40th country and the last unvisited Scandinavian country
2025-06-24
2025 in Denmark (Aarhus)
(34th country) and 1st non-airport visit to Denmark
2025-06-23
2025 in Germany (Warnemรผnde + Rostock + Kiel)
3rd visit to Germany : three German towns
2025-06-21
2025 in Poland (Gdynia)
(20th country) - first non-airport visit to Poland
2025-06-20
2025 in Lithuania
39th country - visiting a Soviet nuclear weapons site