Posted on Sat 07 March 2026 in notes
In Note #4 I mentioned that I was adopting the Johnny Decimal system for organizing my notes. So far this has gone well, and if it continues to be successful I will extend this system to cover other resources besides notes, as the manual suggests.
I'm sharing this index in …
Posted on Sat 28 February 2026 in notes
Chinese New Year ended a week ago. 新年快樂！There are many traditions associated with the New Year, some of which are widely known: fireworks, gifting of hongbao, and playing loud music to scare away Nian.
One less known New Year tradition is spring cleaning, which removes bad …
Posted on Sat 11 October 2025 in notes
Last weekend, my partner and I visited a second-hand bookstore and I bought two books: How to Write Short by Roy Peter Clark, and The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs. I passed over higher-minded alternatives like Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century; I prefer …
Posted on Sun 28 September 2025 in notes
Due to my accelerated AWS study schedule I haven't had much time to work on projects this week, other than some self-hosting maintenance. Instead, I spent some time eyeballing the game launches coming out this month:
All are great …
Posted on Sun 21 September 2025 in notes
This week I've spent most of my free time studying for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam using the excellent courses from Adrian Cantrill.
However, my timeline for taking the exam is pretty tight (my choice), so I've had to switch up my study approach. Initially I was listening to …
Posted on Sat 20 September 2025 in notes
I bought the domain fd93.me in 2021, not long after I moved to Asia.
Originally it was a Wordpress site hosted on AWS Lightsail, but I got tired of
the complexity of Wordpress for actually writing. See
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Websites, which was
itself inspired by No …