Further down the pile Page 4 of the backlog

A Seville orange loaf cake that took three versions, one feral oven, and an entire office of Monday-morning guinea pigs to get right. (148 chars)

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within bankrupted a studio, changed cinema forever, and looked like a game I desperately wanted to play. Twenty-five years later, I found it on Netflix.

The Settlers 2 turns 30 - a personal history from DOS to Sài Gòn, and the fan-made overhaul that keeps the Wusler bustling on modern machines.

Lemon meringue tart with a supply chain spanning three continents - a French recipe, an Australian sister, and a Vietnamese kitchen.

Ho Chi Minh City is building $100B+ in infrastructure simultaneously - metro lines, airports, highways, an entire new CBD, and a city reclaimed from the sea. A deep dive from someone whose bedroom window overlooks the chaos.

One friendship went from 11,629 messages to 125 in a quarter. What an AI found in 425,491 private messages and twenty years of blogging.

Chat logs from four years, 425,491 messages after deduplication, and the pipeline that fed them to an AI - the engineering half of a self-analysis.

MURI nails the early DOS platformer feel - EGA palette, PC speaker, chunky pixels. Thirty years late to its own era, still worth it.

Pumpkin bread in Ho Chi Minh City's December - when 25 degrees feels like Christmas and the rainy season finally packs its bags.

Chocolate Chili Plätzchen while motorbikes hum outside in December Sài Gòn. Christmas baking at 30 degrees - a beautiful contradiction.