2026
3Monthly #36: A Beginning
June to August: a growing AI bill, little worlds of my own, a trip to Seoul and Busan, and finding my rhythm again through walks, games, and everyday life.
Weekly #35: Vibe Coding Weekends with Professor Claude
Recaps six weekends of vibe coding: new blog modules, a comics pipeline, the MoneyWise finance app, fourteen immersive tech essays, and a self-made language, Penelope.
Weekly #34: The Joy of Making Things
Documents a month of building with Claude Code: a blog rebuilt in a weekend, a finance app shipped in two hours, and how AI amplifies the joy of creating.
2025
6Weekly #33: The Ladder of Inference
Introduces the Ladder of Inference, the seven steps from raw sensory data to belief and action and their limits, arguing for lowering fixed judgments.
Weekly #32: A Sun Yat-sen University Alumni Interview
Shares an alumni interview with Sun Yat-sen University's Philosophy Department on why the author chose philosophy, and how it shaped his tech career.
Weekly #31: A Claude-Powered Reading Flow
Shares a reading workflow built on Claude and MCP: weekday reading in Reader, weekend synthesis with Claude and Readwise notes, and thoughts on reading in the AI era.
Weekly #30: Written on My 30th Birthday
Written on the author's 30th birthday, reflecting on a decade of study, career changes, and moving abroad, and on resisting calcifying into repetition of the past.
Weekly #29: A New Life
Covers a six-month gap after leaving TME: building MoFlow while job-hunting, landing offers from TikTok and Bilibili, and starting a new life and job in Singapore.
Weekly #28: AI Has No Capacity for Experience
Marking MoFlow's App Store launch, explores why AI lacks the capacity for lived experience, the limits of language, and the pitfalls of simulated emotional companionship.
2024
3Weekly #27: A New Way of Living
Reflects on leaving Shenzhen for Dali to build the AI mental-wellness startup MoFlow with a six-person team, and on tools for remote collaboration.
Weekly #26: The Journey
A travel diary of a nine-day New Zealand road trip in April 2024, from Christchurch to Wanaka and Queenstown, with alpaca farms, the Milky Way, and paragliding.
Weekly #25: Love Concrete People
A written version of an internal TED talk arguing that engineering quality assurance should treat user feedback as coming from real people, not just metrics.
2023
7Weekly #24: Ten Years of Programming
Traces a decade of programming from 2014 to 2023, from VB and Java Swing through web frontend, iOS, and Flutter, and distills lessons on love-driven learning.
Weekly #23: Time Management When You're Doing Too Much
Shares a calendar-plus-reminders system for separating fixed events from flexible tasks, arguing focus and fewer context switches beat any productivity app.
Weekly #22: The Joy of the Present
Reflects on finding joy amid pressure by cherishing the present, alongside a rough stretch of illness, a switch to iOS development, and moving house.
Weekly #21: Short Video in the Age of Speed
Examines how playback speed, three-minute recaps, and viral songs erode attention, extending to cultural frenzies like Zibo barbecue and the loss of depth.
Weekly #20: Restart
A March 2023 monthly log centered on the Japanese drama Restart, praising its emotional honesty and warmth, alongside notes on badminton and cycling to work.
Weekly #19: The Meaning of Keeping a Journal
Reflects on six years of journaling as a tool for self-awareness, a way to find meaning in daily life, and a record of small beautiful moments.
Weekly #18: Escaping Social Media
Reflects on escaping social media: how it weakens expression, fragments attention, and erodes identity, and shares habits like RSS reading and letter writing.
2022
15Weekly #17: Go Where Your Heart Leads
Weekly #17 follows a Bilibili creator drifting across China by bicycle, weaving in Liu Cixin's The Mountain and Xu Xiake's travels to reflect on wanderlust and living life on your own terms.
Weekly #16: My Personal Information Feed
Weekly #16 diagrams a personal information-feed pipeline: Inoreader subscriptions with keyword alerts, Reeder reading shortcuts, and Readwise highlights syncing into Logseq and Obsidian.
Weekly #13: The Mysticism Lever and the Isekai Groups
Weekly #13 looks at young people's growing embrace of online divination and the mysticism lever, plus Douban's isekai groups, framing both as coping tools for the pressure of alienated labor.
Weekly #12: The Three Great Romances of Frontend
Weekly #12 covers frontend's so-called three great romances (rich text editors, in-browser spreadsheets, CRDTs) and path dependency in everyday life, from QWERTY keyboards to train seat numbering.
Weekly #11: How Divination Works
Weekly #11 breaks down the mechanics of I Ching yarrow-stalk divination step by step, plus picks for the file-linking app Hook and the Emojimix web toy, alongside the week's viewing log.
Weekly #10: Games I Love (Vol. 1)
Weekly #10 rounds up favorite games: Undertale, To the Moon, Don't Starve, Darkest Dungeon, The Stanley Parable, Breath of the Wild, and Hollow Knight, each with the author's personal take.
Weekly #9: From High Efficiency to High Drain — Observations and Reflections
On how chasing efficiency in the mobile-internet era turns into exhaustion and self-denial, arguing for slowing down, plus picks on a social-trends report and the Muse 2.0 app.
Weekly #8: Three-Act Structure and the Hero's Journey
Breaks down the three-act structure and the Hero's Journey using World War Z, Kung Fu Panda, and The Invisible Guest, plus picks on note apps Obsidian, LogSeq, and Hepta.
Weekly #7: Models for Impromptu Speaking
Five speaking and communication frameworks: Yes And, the Pyramid Principle, FFC compliments, FFA reporting, and nonviolent communication, plus picks on an anime and a JS tutorial site.
Weekly #6: Perception Checking in the Art of Communication
How perception checking from Looking Out, Looking In reduces noise from perceptual gaps in communication, plus picks: an input switcher, a vocab plugin, and screenshot tools.
Weekly #5: A Day in My Life at TME
A day in the life working at TME, plus picks on programming design decisions, 1Password 8's Electron rewrite, and a new weekly log of reading and coding time.
Weekly #4: The Evolution of Personal Blogs
A look at how personal blogs have evolved over the years.
Weekly #3: A Bouquet of Love
A farewell letter on a brief 20.5-day romance, framed by the film A Bouquet of Love, on what love is, why we need it, and how to move on after losing it.
Weekly #2: Reclaiming Lost Curiosity
Explores why curiosity fades with age and technology, using Leonardo da Vinci as an example to outline ways to rebuild it through observation and reflection.
Weekly #1: The Beginning — Why I'm Starting a Newsletter
The debut issue of a weekly newsletter, explaining the shift from long, heavy blog essays to lighter, more frequent writing, with reflections on impermanence and Nintendo's game design philosophy.