perhaps most famous for the crescent moon bridge and Bruce Lee’s ancestral house.
Hey there! 👋🏼
Thank you for visiting my little corner of the World Wide Web. I’m a backend software engineer by day (I can do some casual frontend work too, such as designing this website!), but enjoy musing about a variety of topics in my off-hours. Right now, the main topics I was excited to share here include web development, machine learning, and thoughts on miscellaneous topics of interest. While this may not sound convincing for a would-be blog subscriber, I hope what I did publish online would be helpful to any fellow humans who are searching for answers to similar questions I once bashed my head against.
I’m an empiricist by nurture (which by itself is wonderfully a posteriori 😄). I stumbled upon the concept without realizing what it was when I was younger; back then I often thought of myself as an idiot (but still wanted to struggle a little to fit into the “normies”). Reading and writing have been two of my primary ways to enrich my experience and to make up for intellectual shortcomings.
But public writing is a wholly different beast compared with private writing. The amount of (self-imposed) rigor and polish were so taxing that over time, I accumulated a lot of notes and dead drafts, and instead became used to thinking by preparing for public writing whenever there’s a complex topic I’d like to straighten out for myself.1 Hopefully I would be able to find more motivations to actually finish some drafts in the future!
(Art credit: kéké. Drawn on a Nintendo 3DS!)
Need entertainment while you’re here?
[Game] Don’t Go Into That Late Night
It is a small online puzzle game I made from Scratch in 2015, when I was seriously considering hard pivoting to software engineering. A decade has since passed, but it still has a special place in my heart.
Ironically, I myself did not adhere to the playful advice I gave in the true ending, which had led to an unfortunate street assault case 6 years later when I was in SF Bay Area… 😨 Beat the game and learn from my mistake!
Feeling stuck and need a tip?
Try to think like a programmer! I had a very fundamental algorithmic paradigm in mind when I was designing the game. 😜
Footnotes
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Years later, I learnt that I had accidentally discovered a pedagogical method known as the Feynman technique. I’m both humbled and slightly annoyed by how difficult it is to achieve true originality. On the other hand, it’s a reassuring thought that the answers to many of our burning questions are often buried in some corners of this world, waiting to be uncovered again!