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

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/

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

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



- 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.


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


- 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



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


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