CNYHappy Chinese New Year to you, my dear reader! It’s the Year of the Horse this year—may all of you be galloping to success (馬到功成), be full of vitality like a horse and dragon (龍馬精神), and to be in the forefront of what you do (一馬當先). 1 __ __ ___ 2 \ \/ /__ ___ _____ ___ / _/ 3 \ / -_) _ `/ __/ / _ \/ _/ 4...

Hi Jo! I’m so happy I came across your site once again (because I lost it in my ♾️ opened tabs + windows). I came across your Instagram export page initially; it’s nicely executed (I hope to have something like that one day on my site). Last week I created a /guestbook too, I hope you get more entries soon! Yours is...

At today’s IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club: Pacific event, we covered lots of different topics—RSS, ATProto, poll platforms, CMSes, databases, upvotes, YAML, etc . During the event, something @fractalkitty and @joelchrono said alerted me to two relatively “serious” bugs on my site (thanks you two!) Pagefind search...

This week’s weeknote is another technical log of what I did to my site. Skip to the Link Roundup if it’s too technical! Should I do a separate series for web dev talk and how I am building my site—a bit like Shellsharks’ Devlog series? Let me know via Mastodon comments or my contact form (while I try to find a good...

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Hi Chris! I hope this u-in-reply-to webmention reaches you (it’s the first time I’m using this Microformat markup type). Your guestbook is a retro and fun page; a nice surprise and contrast to your clean, modern, and user-friendly site. Looking forward to reading more of your content and discovering your site’s...

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HWC: About Books & ReadingI haven’t attended a Homebrew Website Club event for a few weeks; it was lovely to see familiar faces again last week at the Pacific event (meeting notes). I managed to get @joelchrono to attend his first Indieweb event! Because we spoke about book/reading habit tracking on personal sites,...

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This week’s weeknote is going to be pretty technical (about working on my blog’s backend, adding Indieweb features, support for Micropub/Microformats, etc). If you’re not interested, jump to the Link Roundup! Blog Gets Major Version UpgradeI think my blog deserves a new version number (pending changelog updated this...

Attended a local annual tea fair last weekend called Tea Round 2026, held at PMQ HK. I got to try a really amazing black tea—it was stunningly sweet. The black tea I bought is called Jin Jun Mei (金俊眉, literal translation: Golden Beautiful Eyebrows) from Fujian Province, China. I got it from Enoch, the founder of The...

IntroductionIn the past, I mentioned how I use Hugo on different devices (Android and Linux). This week I made a significant upgrade on how I use Hugo on Android. Instead of having only basic access to my Hugo blog for drafting content; I can now run hugo server locally on my phone and easily see the changes I make...