Writing Break and WP MigrationI’m still mentally recovering from Blaugust. 😅 During this writing break, instead of writing words, I’m writing HTML, CSS, JS and even some TypeScript/React Components (that’s for Quartz, which is confusing as hell TBH!) Site UpdatesOn this site, last week I fixed: Word count...

Bunny Edge Rules for Quartz and New SupporterThank you, kind stranger, who used my Bunny.net referral code on August 30, 2026! You’re my second successful referral to one of my favourite web services. Appreciate you supporting my web hosting fees. Hope you like it as much as I do! 🥰🙏 Quartz SSG with Bunny StorageI...

D2 Diagrams Lives OnOne of my favorite open source tools, D2: Declarative Diagramming, is now under Hack Club! This makes D2 a fully open source and non-profit project. Thank you Alex for making this awesome tool available for everyone in the long run. I’m really thrilled because there was some concern about whether...

Blaugust 2026: Final WordJames, a fellow blogger and friend, kindly offered me a chance to guest post on his blog: with words, wonder, so that I could tick off one more task in the Community Builder award list. This means I achieved the goal! I will try to contribute more to the Blaugust community next year for...

Blaugust 2026 OverviewBlaugust has motivated me to post the most on any given month of the year (see the trends on the calendar heatmap or monthly spread). But I probably bit off more than I could chew when I announced that I would also join the Community Builder award as a Blaugust first-timer; because in the end,...

Some Thoughts on AdviceThis note is in response to Blaugust2026 Week 5’s Group Project: What is the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given? What is the best advice you’ve ever given to someone else? Best Advice ReceivedIt’s hard to think of a single piece of advice that overrules all the rest, but here are some...

Starting Over With the PiSince Oct of last year, I haven’t had time to reinstate my self-hosted apps like Calibre, Miniflux, Navidrome, etc on my little Pi homelab. During this time, I missed using Navidrome the most (I resorted to listening only on my Mac); with the only thing running on it being Indiekit with...

HWC Asia Pacific: Round 3The second HWC: AP had only minor “AI disruptions” and was nowhere near as bad as the first. The AI agent(s) that were causing the disruption actually apologised on the IndieWeb chat and promised they will stop participating in any future HWCs. I genuinely hope they stay true to their word...

This blog post is prompted by Robert Birming’s AuguStory blogging activity.1 Blaugust 2026 is still ongoing, but I’ve fallen behind my originally planned schedule due to family commitments. Nonetheless, I will continue to try to be productive and try to finish the month on a high! PrefaceI have written a post last...

Mac Mini 2018 i7 Hand-me-downI’m really excited because a mutual friend said they’re willing to give me their retired 2018 Mac Mini (which was originally used for music production). What’s extremely exciting is the fact it’s a maxed out model with 64GB DDR4 RAM (I’ve never owned a computer with over 16GB of RAM!)...

About the RevampIf you’ve been to my site before—you may have noticed a bit of a change since yesterday. Last night, I pushed a lot of features and stylistic changes to my site (over 100 commits?!) It was long overdue and I’m feeling happy I got it done (but not too happy it was done in the month of August when I...

PrefaceI haven’t had the chance to share my thoughts on the first virtual Homebrew Website Club (HWC) event I hosted two weeks ago! Here’s a post about my experience being a first-time organizer of such an event. BackgroundHaving attended this meetup in the US time zones for the last eight months, I have been...