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But yeah, Sarasti’s right. I’m part of the subset who moved to email newslettters which seem to be the zeitgeist of the moment: littleyellowdifferent.substack.com.
This essay about Dhalsim from the Street Fighter series isn't really about Dhalsim from the Street Fighter series! But shh, don't tell anyone that.

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What Playing the Least Popular Street Fighter Character Taught Me About Being Mid
open.substack.com/pub/littleye...
The Least Popular Character in Street Fighter Taught Me Nothing About Life, Which Is Probably the Point
Dhalsim isn’t escapism. He’s a mirror.
open.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Adulthood is mostly about ignoring things that make noise.

New LYD essay: “The 4AM Doorbell Olympics.”

A story about insomnia, stolen Nintendo Switches, and learning that sometimes “doing nothing” is the healthiest response imaginable.
October 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
You know that thing where you handle the big crisis fine, then fall apart over something tiny?
Just wrote about the day a delayed sandwich almost broke me - and what it taught me about how we actually process stress.
(Spoiler: we're carrying more than we let on)

open.substack.com/pub/littleye...
The Sandwich that Broke Me
What happens when the universe tests you with fried chicken
open.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
🧵 1/4 Republishing one of my favorite old pieces: being 8 years old, Asian American, holding a glass of milk while my parents fought over whether I should drink it.
July 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I just wanted to build a simple Obsidian plugin.
What I ended up with:
– An AI orchestration platform
– 46,081 lines of “vibe-coded” complexity
– A low-grade identity crisis

New post:
How I Turned a Weekend Project into an Existential Crisis open.substack.com/pub/littleye...
How I Turned a Weekend Project into an Existential Crisis
How a two‑week plugin turned into a 46,081‑line chaos spiral—and what I learned.
open.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
New on the blog: Thirty Percent Chance of Being an Earring Holder.

littleyellowdifferent.substack.com/p/thirty-per...
Thirty Percent Chance of Being an Earring Holder
Notes from the Front Lines of Caregiving, Mistranslations, and Mice
littleyellowdifferent.substack.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Got hired at a startup after 435 days of searching. Got fired 11 workdays later.

Turns out they didn’t want thoughtful UX—they wanted a hardcoded demo.
I missed the memo.
They missed the onboarding.

I wrote about it: littleyellowdifferent.substack.com/p/the-happy-...
The Happy Path No One Mapped
The Startup Hired Me. Then They Fired Me. Here’s What I Wish I’d Known.
littleyellowdifferent.substack.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
When is forgetting your keys normal aging versus the start of something worse?

littleyellowdifferent.substack.com/p/the-ghosts...

#BrainHealth #Memory #AgingParents #CognitiveHealth #GenX
The Ghosts of Memory
Recognizing the Patterns We Inherit
littleyellowdifferent.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Feeling like your notes are a chaotic graveyard of half-finished thoughts? Same. I wrote about how I wrangle my distractible brain into something resembling an effective note-taking system. ADHD-friendly, low-effort, and chaos-resistant.

Read here:
littleyellowdifferent.substack.com/p/note-takin...
Note-Taking for the Chronically Distracted: An ADHD Guide to Obsidian
When I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, everything clicked.
littleyellowdifferent.substack.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
1/ wrote about being unemployed for 356 days (yes i'm counting). turns out teaching people how to get jobs doesn't make you immune to not having one yourself. the universe really said "plot twist" huh
January 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The infamous Seagull Story is back - now with 2024 footnotes! It is a tale of high school awkwardness, unrequited crushes, and why you should never eat lunch under seagull flight paths.
December 27, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Me: "Roast me, ChatGPT."
ChatGPT: Pulls up a PowerPoint of all my flaws and career zigzags.
This week’s blog post is part therapy, part comedy roast. Check it out!
➡️ open.substack.com/pub/littleye...
Hey, ChatGPT: Roast Me.
The following prompt was inserted into ChatGPT. With the exception of editing out one left-field reference, the entire dialog is pasted as is.
open.substack.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:28 PM
"Hey ChatGPT, make an image based on what you know about me."

Awesome, but damn, I didn't realize I like air fryers so much.
December 10, 2024 at 2:37 PM
The more I dive into AI tools, the more I realize how much real human connections matter. I wrote a little something about navigating job hunting in this AI age—spoiler: it involves teaching robots to sound like me so I can talk to actual people. 😂

littleyellowdifferent.substack.com/p/the-new-jo...
The New Job Hunt: Tools and Processes That Have Changed
A Field Guide to Job Hunting in the AI Age (Spoiler: You Still Need Friends)
littleyellowdifferent.substack.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:28 PM
1/4 Currently at 303 days of unemployment, so I wrote about using Claude AI to help me find a job, which feels very 2024 in ways both exciting and deeply concerning.
November 21, 2024 at 7:18 PM
How am I this second? Let’s see: today is my 48th birthday. My mom is having a panic attack because she lost a wallet with, in her words, “hundreds of dollars.”

You start to scold her until you’re reminded that your own car was stolen two weeks ago.

You haven’t worked since January.
November 18, 2024 at 2:49 AM
But yeah, Sarasti’s right. I’m part of the subset who moved to email newslettters which seem to be the zeitgeist of the moment: littleyellowdifferent.substack.com.
November 18, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Wait, so this isn't Mastodon? I'm confused.
November 13, 2024 at 5:46 AM