There are some small pleasures in life, not worth mentioning by themselves, but sometimes they come together so well. Like:

  • Google Pay popping up a “Disable verification for transit?” option, so I just touch my phone to the bus ticket reader even while on a call and it just works like my card.
  • Finding a seat at the front of the double-decker bus on top, so I can take in the entire vista from a height for the entire one hour ride
  • Discovering the ultra-configurable Open Camera app (thanks to Thej) and capturing at the much smaller 640x480 resolution at 10x speed
  • Transferring it like a breeze to my laptop with LocalSend
  • Compressing it into an ultra-small 1.4MB video thanks to the AV1 codec and FFmpeg
  • Publishing it to Cloudflare within a second thanks to ultra-fast WiFi

Yeah… this is life!