Another day, another storm in the writing community teacup! The storm, this New York Times article: The New Fabio is Claude TL;DR: Coral Hart uses AI to generate 200 books a year. This has made many writers mad, mad, mad. (Somewhere in a glistening office tower is a very satisfied editor – the ragebait has worked as...

I’ve been using my Mastodon account as a way to share various links around the web that I found. However, social media can be ephmeral, so I thought I will consolidate what I share here in Linkblog issues. I like curating articles and blog posts about social media, Indieweb, geopolitics, Chinese and Malaysian...

In a digital world often defined by outrage, impatience, and keyboard warriors, Matt Chung stands out: not for being loud, but for choosing kindness. By day, Matt focuses on RubyCoded, a company he co-founded together with his friend, Jenxi, over 10-years ago. But outside of daily work, he’s quietly building...

I swear to you, I’m not into woo-woo stuff. But the oddest thing happened to me today. And this is not the first time such a thing has happened to me. Basically, I’ve had things reappear in my life as mysteriously as they disappeared. Emphasis on mysterious: There is usually no logical explanation how these things...

This may seem like a clickbait title, but I really wonder if this is a trend because I saw a book blogger ranting that she’s fed up with books being released today and she’s going back to read classic fiction and finding more satisfaction there.It’s kinda me too. Currently, I am reading (extremely slowly), Strange...

When I first saw news about the fire, I actually thought the building was just under construction. Meaning, it was being built, uninhabited, the like. In Malaysia, buildings only look like this if it’s being built. My apartment, which is considered old, once had a repainting job done. There were no scaffolding or...

I love Obsidian and am ever so grateful for the Obsidian community’s contributions to make a great software even greater. While I was learning how to use Notebook Navigator, a fantastic community plug-in by Johan Sanneblad, I took notes. I’m actually a technical writer by trade. So, I thought it would be a great...

Whether AI makes you more productive really depends on whether you know what the heck you're doing.

In Asia, the real conversations and developments around AI are focused on practical applications for industry. They are quiet, hardly talked about and are not trendy.

We Malaysians have learned over the last few painful decades: you need to be united as a people to effect any effective change in your country.

On being Malaysian. A bittersweet love letter to Malaysia.

As the movie Dead to Rights (Nanjing Photo Studio)《南京照相馆》gains attention in China and globally, some critics wonder: Why bring it up now?