Author: Yeri Tiete

  • How The Immune System Works

  • Ocean Plastic

    Ocean Plastic

    Seeing it summarised like this, is quite depressing. Definitely time for humanity to act, ban one-use anything, stop dumping trash left and right, or exporting it to poor countries. There’s some hope with ongoing projects that attempt to catch (bigger) plastic before they reach the oceans, or fish it out when floating in patches —…

  • River Trash Interceptors

  • Singapore Metro

    For the Metro nerds among us…

  • Tinlicker feat. Nathan Nicholson – Be Here And Now

    Been on repeat for a few days now. <3

  • Talent drain?

    “City of London Faces Brexit Talent Drain“. I guess that was not unexpected. This could level the playing fields a bit for other big capitals like Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt and maybe even Brussels. […] a report by several City organizations said that Brexit was making it harder and more expensive to hire foreign staff. International…

  • Custom CPUs

    Custom CPUs

    “Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops“. Interesting to see that many years after Apple started creating their CPUs for the iPhone (and now laptops/desktops), so many companies are following. Google is not new to building their chips (TPU, Titan (used in security keys and as encryption module for servers/Pixel phones), and likely more), but…

  • Covid-19 communication

    Covid-19 communication

    How Singapore went from clear, simple and stable communication surrounding Covid, to total chaos — losing people’s interest and understanding. To the point, there’s now Covid bingo. I quote, in case they one day decide to delete it all: Insanity.

  • Continuous Sidewalks

    Living in Singapore — a city extremely unfriendly towards bicycles and pedestrians (to the point they banned e-scooters because they had to blame someone for the accidents, and it couldn’t be the cars) I started paying attention to urban design in Europe and started noticing the little things I wouldn’t pay attention before. Having just…