Archive - Little. Yellow. Different.

I Quit a Business This Week, and Almost Nobody Knew I’d Started It

Three pitches, one $2.80 AWS bill, and a pot of soup.

6 hrs ago • Ernie Hsiung

Bug #139008: Peasant shirt doesn’t go with capri pants

I helped build Yahoo! Avatars in 2004. The first batch of drawings did not go well.

Oct 3 • Ernie Hsiung

Have ADHD and I've Used the Same Notes App for Sixteen Months (This Never Happens)

The daily note won, my clever templates died, and AI ate part of my second brain.

Oct 1 • Ernie Hsiung

September 2026

Nobody Warned Me Self-Awareness Would Just Be a Better Way to Stand Still

At almost fifty, I've learned to leave the room without setting it on fire.

Sep 24 • Ernie Hsiung

The Two Birthday Letters My Father Sent Five Hours Apart

The one he went back for told me to grow up. It also said "Your Father miss you."

Sep 17 • Ernie Hsiung

I Wrote Two Sets of Instructions for the Same Frozen Burrito

Mom is 88. We have different requirements for breakfast.

Sep 10 • Ernie Hsiung

I Spilled a Bong on My Laptop and Found Out My Brain Was In There

Seven thousand notes survived the skill. Everything I was actually thinking of did not.

Sep 6 • Ernie Hsiung

August 2026

A Gay Dating Site Rejected Me Three Times Before I Let Myself Think About Race

The token Asian boy at the bear party, and a subculture built on exclusion running its own door policy.

Aug 29 • Ernie Hsiung

I Have to Be Fingerprinted to Take Care of My Mother

The state pays $22.10 an hour, and priced the two hours she spends shopping with me at zero.

Aug 27 • Ernie Hsiung

My Top 3 K-Pop Songs

A friend asked me a question with no paperwork attached. I gave him thirteen answers.

Aug 20 • Ernie Hsiung

I Went Back to Talk to JavaScript. It Kept the Logs.

Claude writes the React now, Stack Overflow is a dead mall, and the language that spent twenty years telling me to keep up wants to talk.

Aug 13 • Ernie Hsiung

I'm Pausing This Newsletter, and I'm Not Going to Dress It Up as a Pivot

Let's be honest: readers are leaving. I had to pick one bet, and it wasn't this one.

Published on LATE TO THE FUTURE_ • Aug 10

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