A two-day Meizhou itinerary covering Alilang, the Hakka Museum, Ketianxia, Ye Jianying Memorial, and Yannanfei, with honest notes on what was worth seeing and what fell flat.
A roundup of feedback after version 1.5.5 of the standards and atlas document manager, covering PDF zoom, sidebar history, navigation state, favorites, and bookmark layout.
A rainy Friday turns into notes on sick days, slippers, a blister, and a reading list that leads into history, political writing, and class analysis.
A reading note on the Chinese literary magazine Chorus, from unsold copies and green-train nostalgia to short fiction, male-authored sex scenes, and the limits of collective fantasy.
In a time of shifting identities and future shock, the search for a stable self runs into a paradox: neither total self-reliance nor external approval can hold. The answer may lie in a lifelong action.
A roundup of DEMO Spring 2010 award winners, including Zosh, Everloop, Gwabbit Cloud Sync, Phone Halo, BlueSkies Hospitality, TAGtheLOOK, and MagInify Call Center.
A first-person account of losing GitHub 2FA access when a self-hosted Vaultwarden instance failed, how SSH key recovery worked, and what backup and authentication safeguards followed.
A practical look at utf8mb4 character sets and collations in MySQL, including default differences between 5.7 and 8.0, migration errors, and server-level settings.
A look at Singapore's two self-employed pass routes, Employment Pass and EntrePass, and how renewal, dependants, Singpass and daily usability differ.
A lyrical reflection on Venice, fleeting time, Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels, romantic self-deception, and the quiet return of spring after a winter of buried stories.