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/

#Singapore#TootSea#AWARE#LGBTQ#Pride#Religion

  1. 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

    #Singapore

  1. 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.

    #Singapore

Here鈥檚 a series of side quests on my other side projects:

1. WBGT (Wet Bulb Globe Temperature) readings are now displayed as 馃敟 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

#Singapore

  1. 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

    #Singapore