It has not been a year since global swimming's finest rocked La Defense Arena at the Paris Olympics but there is already anticipation of record-breaking thrills at the world championships in Singapore. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/07/26/more-sports/swimming-worlds-preview/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #summermcintosh #worldaquatics #worldaquaticschampionships #singapore #katieledecky #leonmarchand #panzhanle
Japanese passport holders have visa-free access to 190 destinations out of 227 globally — just behind Singapore, which remains in the top spot with access to 193 destinations. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/24/japan/society/japan-national-passport-index-ranking/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #singapore #passports #tourism #southkorea
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Question about whether people with nut allergies can eat local food in Singapore: probably not, except at very specialized restaurants (nut allergies are almost unheard of there)
According this study, peanut allergy prevalence in Singapore is only 0.1-0.3%, compared to >1.40% elsewhere: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7016321/
https://www.reddit.com/r/askSingapore/comments/1m62oiy/dining_in_singapore_with_peanut_allergy/
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singapore broadcaster channelnewsasia has a very interesting series where a masterchef chef is tasked with trying to recreate family recipes which have been 'lost'
this metafilter thread has a list of the episodes
in a food culture where food is very important and personal yet very little is written down and every family does the same dish very differently depending on your personal background, this is valuable.
i think for example of how when my grandma passed away, my mum tried to replicate her teochew kiam chye ark tng (teochew salted veg and duck soup), and that made me feel very comforted in my grief.
https://www.metafilter.com/209585/On-The-Red-Dot-Finding-Lost-Recipes
Probably the scariest looking map, ever since I add the heat stress indicators https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/114759210420287038
Binance plans to keep hundreds of remote workers in Singapore despite a crackdown on unlicensed cryptocurrency outfits in the city-state. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/02/tech/binance-staff-singapore-crackdown/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #binance#richardteng #singapore #cryptocurrencies
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i always say that the most democratic uprising that happened in my country, singapore, was when in 2009 a homophobic evangelical christian faction comprising rich chinese women (our karens) took over a feminist organization. they said 'AWARE' was 'promoting lesbianism'.
a huge furore ensued. they were beat back by a coalition of people who were shocked and horrified that a christian theocracy had a bold vision for secular singapore, and that they planned to execute on their vision.
one of the key christian instigators just passed. i hope she's in the afterlife she did not imagine for herself. she brought a lot of pain and suffering to the world.
here's an academic book about the whole ordeal: https://nuspress.nus.edu.sg/products/the-aware-saga
and here's a podcast about the whole thing (ep 8 talks about Thio, the person who just passed away): https://aware.org.sg/saga/
- Hume, Punggol Coast and Stage-4 Thomson-East Coast line stations are now on https://railrouter.sg
Open-source: https://github.com/cheeaun/railrouter-sg
Data here: https://github.com/cheeaun/sgraildata
Map showing Stage-4 Thomson-East Coast Line, including areas like Marina South Pier, Gardens by the Bay, Bayfront, Nicoll Highway, Tanjong Katong, Marine Parade, Siglap, and Bayshore.
Map showing the Tanjong Katong MRT station (TE25) on the Thomson-East Coast Line in Singapore, with surrounding buildings and roads including Amber Skye, NYON, Aalto, and Jalan Seaview.
Map showing the location of Hume MRT station (DT4) on the Downtown Line, near Upper Bukit Timah Road and Rail Corridor.
- It also now renders Tamil characters properly, thanks to https://github.com/wipfli/maplibre-gl-complex-text (found via https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/114400130119630384)
Here's a before and after comparison.
Map showing Chinatown MRT station in Singapore with NE4 and DT19 lines, nearby landmarks, and exit points labeled A to F.
Before: Tamil characters rendered correctly.
Map showing Chinatown MRT station (NE4, DT19) in Singapore, with nearby buildings and exits D, E, and G highlighted.
Before: Tamil characters rendered wrongly.
Here’s a series of side quests on my other side projects:
1. WBGT (Wet Bulb Globe Temperature) readings are now displayed as 🔥 on https://checkweather.sg/
Open-source: https://github.com/cheeaun/checkweather-sg
Data from data.gov.sg: https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_87884af1f85d702d4f74c6af13b4853d/view
Map showing weather readings near Bedok North Street 2, highlighting heat stress with a moderate level of 31.7°C. Another reading near East Coast Parkway showing temperature at 29.9°C, humidity at 78.5%, and wind speed of 6 km/h.
Weather map showing temperatures around 30-32°C with wind directions and light precipitation areas, including two flame icons indicating heat stress, timestamped at 10:50 AM.
- Hume, Punggol Coast and Stage-4 Thomson-East Coast line stations are now on https://railrouter.sg
Open-source: https://github.com/cheeaun/railrouter-sg
Data here: https://github.com/cheeaun/sgraildata
Map showing Stage-4 Thomson-East Coast Line, including areas like Marina South Pier, Gardens by the Bay, Bayfront, Nicoll Highway, Tanjong Katong, Marine Parade, Siglap, and Bayshore.
Map showing the Tanjong Katong MRT station (TE25) on the Thomson-East Coast Line in Singapore, with surrounding buildings and roads including Amber Skye, NYON, Aalto, and Jalan Seaview.
Map showing the location of Hume MRT station (DT4) on the Downtown Line, near Upper Bukit Timah Road and Rail Corridor.
Here’s a series of side quests on my other side projects:
1. WBGT (Wet Bulb Globe Temperature) readings are now displayed as 🔥 on https://checkweather.sg/
Open-source: https://github.com/cheeaun/checkweather-sg
Data from data.gov.sg: https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_87884af1f85d702d4f74c6af13b4853d/view
Map showing weather readings near Bedok North Street 2, highlighting heat stress with a moderate level of 31.7°C. Another reading near East Coast Parkway showing temperature at 29.9°C, humidity at 78.5%, and wind speed of 6 km/h.
Weather map showing temperatures around 30-32°C with wind directions and light precipitation areas, including two flame icons indicating heat stress, timestamped at 10:50 AM.
Marubeni has raised its stake in Senoko Energy to 50%, after acquiring shares in the Singaporean power generator’s holding company. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/25/companies/marubeni-singapore-senoko/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies#marubeni #senokoenergy #singapore
@raucao @debacle Another anecdote: A friend of mine in the #Philippines couldn't connect to my #XMPP server in #Singapore, *until* he turned on a VPN with an exit node in Singapore. There's all sorts of strange QOS rules lurking in the various ISPs' routers here in Asia.