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Useful Apps for Travelers in South Korea

Visiting Korea? Set up these apps ahead of time for a great experience.

Notes on Bluesky: Feeds

Custom feeds are a genius concept that make social media palatable again.

Useful Apps for Learning Korean

These are apps that I’ve found useful for learning Korean while living in Korea, in no particular order. Many of these will apply to various languages, not just Korean.…

My Korean Journey: Update #1

This post is the first in an experimental series of tracking the progress I make in my journey to Korean learning.

Why and How I acquired a Korean Resident Card

Once you have a Korean visa, getting a Resident Card is fairly straightforward.

How I acquired the Korean Digital Nomad Visa

I documented the entire process for the Korean F-1-D ‘Workation’ / Digital Nomad Visa.

How to run Kakaotalk on Linux (2020)

Thankfully, installing Kakaotalk has become much easier than before now that it’s 64bit.

Garmin’s $850 smartwatch can’t render CJK text

My $850 watch can’t render CJK languages because Garmin assumes people living in one region only use 1 language.

Living out of 2 backpacks: A 6-month retrospective

In January of this year, I set out for semi-permanent traveling with only two* backpacks: A Goruck GR1 26L, and a Goruck GR2 40L. Prior to setting out I had done a -lot- of…

Better Anki Usage Guide

Anki is a great app, but making some modifications really makes it shine.

Things to avoid with Anki

There are some common mistakes people make when getting into flash cards and spaced repetition for the first time. Considering that Anki is generally used for years…

Korean Food & Cooking Vocabulary Reference

Here is a compiled list of Korean words related to food, cooking, eating out, going out, and nutrition, all on one page.

Selfhosting Gitea, Docker, Caddy

This walks through hosting a git frontend with docker, caddy, and gitea.