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I’m turning 35 40 today. For the first time in 35 40 years a birthday managed to sneak up on me without me realizing it.

last update: 2025-05-31

I write words, ride bikes, climb mountains, and make things.

Currently living in beijing/shanghai/zhuhai/zhongshan/macau — possibly the most beautiful city in the world.

I've built little games and played with interesting ideas.

I build things, I fix things.

《What Money Can’t Buy?》

Nothing better than a relaxing day spent in beautiful place

By 2050, an estimated 1.3 billion people around the world will have diabetes

9 Year Old Maryland Girl Finds 15 million Year Old Megalodon Tooth in the Chesapeake Bay.

In the 2010s, during the peak iPad era, people thought paper books were doomed.
There’s something about a printed book that technology can’t replace
The more we digitize the world the more analogue, physical objects become important.
From NoCode/LowCode to AI-Assisted
Move to the cloud and you won't need system administrators anymore!
Just describe what you want, and the AI will generate it!
I wrote about my dislike of money
I worked solo my entire life
What should you do next?
What is worth filling your mind with?
How I stay motivated as a solo-creator
Working solo has its difficulties
without social media
artist won’t stop creating
silly AI tools will flood the web with generated crap
creating beautiful things
the best system is requires very little maintenance
I have a stack of books waiting to be read in my bedroom.
Is all this going to be for the best? I guess time will tell.
I'm slowly realising that in this digital age we live in, emails are probably the last safe space we still own. If we're careful with how we use them.
I want my websites to be understated. I want them to be invisible and possibly even boring.
We're slowly turning the web into a place where people only do things if it generates money and that is so sad to see.
I always admired people committed to a craft. I think what matters is what you make with a tool, not the tool itself.