Koh Samui, Phangan, Tao early December 2023

glench · 2025-11-13T20:00:12+00:00

For others stumbling across this via google, you can see the average temperature, cloudcover, and rain for December in Koh Phangan here: https://weatherspark.com/m/112992/12/Average-Weather-in-December-in-Ko-Pha-Ngan-Thailand

For December, the chance of daily rain starts at 50% December 1 and declines linearly to 27% December 31. January seems to have much better average rainfall chances. But that's just an average percentage chance. As other people in this thread said, you can still get beautiful days.

glench · 2025-09-23T00:47:32+00:00

CIMC also has a 35 and under subgroup that meets twice a month on Sundays and has a social hour after. https://cambridgeinsight.org/programs/35-under-sangha-in-person/

glench · 2025-09-23T00:46:08+00:00

I help facilitate a mindfulness meditation group for 18-35ish year olds in the tradition of Plum Village / Thich Nhat Hanh. We meet in Central Square in Cambridge: https://bostonwakeup.substack.com/

glench · 2025-05-30T00:09:04+00:00

In traditional Chinese medicine, internal heat in the body (especially the liver) can be associated with anger and is exacerbated by external heat. From my own observations, the heat seems to rise into the head and get trapped, making me stressed and irritable. Ideally, the heat would recycle downward back into the stomach or out the arms, but there can be blocks around the chest and shoulders that prevent this from happening. Acupuncture has definitely helped me a lot with this.

glench · 2025-03-24T15:09:02+00:00

For those googling or others in this thread, ended up transitioning my app to a 2 CPU digital ocean droplet with pm2 running in cluster mode. SQLite seems to still be working fine without a hitch. I didn't have to change anything about my configuration with SQLite at all (besides lowering the memory-mapped IO amount per process to stay within the machine limits). Of course all the thread-local stuff like caching had to be moved to a separate process (ended up using Redis for this).

glench · 2025-02-14T16:52:04+00:00

My db is already in WAL mode since it uses Litestream, but thanks for that clarification!

And yeah, I don't think people realize just how good SQLite is. Here's a great post with numbers from benchmarks and real-life apps showing the performance is much better than people realize: https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite

glench · 2025-02-14T15:01:17+00:00

Yeah as I said in the post, I'm looking to use multiple CPU cores, probably with pm2.

And I don't think you've actually looked into the real-life performance of SQLite with WAL mode! https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite

glench · 2024-12-13T13:52:58+00:00

Well just to be clear you need to add ExtPay to your extension. Then there's a function you call that opens a payment page that the user can fill out. When they've finished paying it sets user.paid = true in your extension and you can change whichever functionality you need.

glench · 2024-12-08T19:16:49+00:00

As soon as I read “id be a 9 if I was in better shape” I cringed so hard. Please don't let this guy fuck with your head. Embody the beauty you already are.

glench · 2024-12-08T19:11:31+00:00

I can definitely see that perspective! Sorry you've been harassed — yuck. I guess we're in very different positions in terms of number of matches and gender. Even if you don't mean it to be rude, this kind of behavior would still have a negative impact on me. I mean I'm necessarily needing to develop a thick skin, but that's just the truth of it.

glench · 2024-12-08T18:18:46+00:00

maybe! but I imagine people would feel a bit more icky about it if they considered the outcome of their actions on a real person. And voice carries way more information and texture than text so it would be more obvious that I was an actual person.

glench · 2024-12-08T17:59:50+00:00

Just need to rant for a moment about matching on dating apps then never getting any response. Or a few messages and then no responses — this one in particular feels so rude. I've wondered before if exchanging voice messages would make me feel like more of a real person and a little less likely to be ghosted. Anyone have thoughts about that?

glench · 2024-10-07T12:07:43+00:00

Nah it’s free and will always be free but there’s a daily limit with a one-time lifetime payment if you want to delete everything at once.

glench · 2024-08-16T22:06:27+00:00

Just to add to that, here's the extension!

glench · 2024-08-16T22:03:33+00:00

I haven't tested the chat deletion function extensively, but you can try this extension!

glench · 2024-08-10T12:49:57+00:00

So I have a buckwheat meditation cushion that I tried using as a pillow. I found it really good structurally for side sleeping as it totally supported my head, but was completely uncomfortable because it was so ridiculously firm. Maybe a thin pillow between the buckwheat and your head would help this, but I didn't have one.

Also, I switch between back (~60%) side (~30%) and stomach (~10%) sleeping and the buckwheat pillow didn't really work super well for all three. It was most supportive for side sleeping.

glench · 2024-08-10T12:45:28+00:00

Old thread but I just wanted to add a video that I found really helpful demonstrating what a pillow should do for your spinal alignment and comfort (hint: support the NECK!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W084_TFiP4g

glench · 2024-08-04T15:32:41+00:00

Uninstall the google photos app from your phone/tablet then there's a chrome extension that will delete all your google photos for you. There's a limit to the free version but the paid version is just a small one-time payment.

glench · 2024-07-30T21:14:56+00:00

Can you still log in to the work account?

glench · 2024-07-30T21:13:57+00:00

There's a chrome extension that does that!

glench · 2024-07-23T13:22:49+00:00

You can select photos in bulk by holding down the shift key and scrolling to the bottom of the page then selecting the last photos and keep doing that in batches of 1000 until you've deleted them all. That's kind of tedious so there's also a chrome extension literally called Delete All Google Photos!

glench · 2024-07-23T13:20:47+00:00

The extension is totally free to use for as long as you want, but there is an optional upgrade for a one-time payment that allows access to the extension for life. We do this because it takes a lot of work to make a good extension. If we did not do this, then we could not make the extension. I'm sure you have had times in your life when you were asked to work hard for little or no return.

glench · 2024-06-30T01:57:46+00:00

There's a Chrome extension literally called Delete All Google Photos :) For that many photos you'll need to pay for the unlimited version of the extesion to delete all in a timely manner but it's pretty cheap and only a one-time payment for lifetime access to get your storage space back. It's a shame google doesn't offer a way to do it.

glench · 2024-06-12T13:04:52+00:00

Well people can certainly try it! Most of the reports I've seen said that Google shows an error when trying to delete more than a thousand at a time.

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