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 …

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 …

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:

• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
• Hades 2

All are great …

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 …

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 …