Elizabeth Tai
Elizabeth Tai
Elizabeth Tai
Elizabeth Tai writes about the Indieweb, knowledge management and anything she’s obsessed about Welcome to my digital garden.
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I’m currently towards the tail end of my leave after a medical procedure. I cannot believe time has flown so quickly. When I first got the leave chit, I thought to myself: So many weeks! What in the world am I going do during this time?...
The English-educated Chinese in Malaysia are dying out, and that could be a good thing. I am what many Malaysians would call a banana: Chinese, but more proficient in English. To others, I’m not “banana” enough, because by some freak of...
I depend on this daily/weekly routine to be as productive as I can be. This is an update from a previous workflow which used Trello. Now, I use Google Tasks in tandem with Gmail and Google Calendar. Tools I Use Google Calendar Gmail...
“But I already have a website on Substack,” you argue. No, no, Substack is just a distribution tool to amplify your website. It should not be your digital home. In the last few years, I’ve noticed a pattern of writers leaving their...
Welcome to my Linkblog where I share interesting articles and blog posts I found about social media, Indieweb, geopolitics, Chinese and Malaysian stuff, cute cat videos or anything funny and interesting I find online. FYI: I also share...
Deepseek is pretty amazing. I made 22 API calls yesterday and I have spent….$0.005. Granted my use case is extremely simple, just some simple data work, extracting and shuffling data from a csv file to create a directory page on a...
Now, a caveat before I go on. There’s a common narrative on left-leaning US-dominated social media that there’s a concerted effort by Beijing to stamp out native languages. This interpretation is false and propaganda, and this writer is...
Sometimes, I get frustrated with the writing community. I’ll casually post something about using AI for writing, and almost immediately, someone would drop a rude comment without finding out how I use AI to write! They immediately jump...
My choice of paid AI is probably strange to most … besides Gemini, which is assigned to me at work (meaning, work pays for it), I’m personally paying for … Mistral. Mistral is seen as Europe’s leading AI service alternative to US...
I created an LLM ‘literature professor’ who discusses stories with me after I finish a tale from Pu Songling’s Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (or Tales of the Liaozhai), using the 2006 Penguin translation by John Minford. As I read...
Realised I’ve not updated my “now” status in a long, long while. Right now, geographically, I’m in Penang, the island where I was born. My ancestors have been here for more than a century. Sometimes I feel that the island calls to my...
Welcome to my Linkblog where I share interesting articles and blog posts I found about social media, Indieweb, geopolitics, Chinese and Malaysian stuff, cute cat videos or anything funny and interesting I find online. FYI: I also share...
Efficiency and clarity are the bread and butter of UX writing, but often our own internal processes are the messiest part of the job. I’d like to share a UX copy review process that I’ve adapted from Dr Katharina Grimm, a UX writer who...
Malaysian secondary history classes have changed so much, so I am not sure what is being studied now. But during my time, we studied the history of Malaysia (of course), world history, which includes Islamic civilisations, Asia, Europe,...
Welcome to my Linkblog where I share interesting articles and blog posts I found about social media, Indieweb, geopolitics, Chinese and Malaysian stuff, cute cat videos or anything funny and interesting I find online. FYI: I also share...