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• I Use AI to Write My Blog Posts

  11 Jun 2026 meta ai

  I use AI to write my blog posts. Duh. Everyone knows this already. But I want to say it clearly anyway. The ideas and experience come from me. I think about what I want to say, then I get the...

• Islands Architecture Is Just WordPress Widgets, But You Only Pay For What You Use

  10 Jun 2026 performance architecture web

  I read about islands architecture a long time ago and really appreciated it when I tried Astro for my projects. At that time Astro was very new but I totally get it. If you ever used WordPress, the idea is...

• Reducing Lambda Load with stale-while-revalidate

  09 Jun 2026 cdn caching performance aws

  I run my site (the same one I wrote about in my brick and mortar business stack posts) behind a CDN. Every page request goes through it before hitting my backend (TanStack Start on Lambda). On a content site, most...

• The Stack I Use for a Brick and Mortar Business Website, Part 2

  07 Jun 2026 web projects stack part: 2

  This is part two of the stack writeup. Part one covered the technical side: frontend, UI, content API, database, auth, uploads, deployment, and tooling. This post is about the operational decisions that sit on top of that stack: how the...

• The Stack I Use for a Brick and Mortar Business Website, Part 1

  07 Jun 2026 web projects stack part: 1

  I have been building a website for a brick and mortar business recently. It is not only a brochure site. It has catalog pages, offer pages, an inquiry form, staff admin panel, image upload, lead dashboard, and WhatsApp handoff. The...

• Two Sites, One Telegram Agent

  04 Jun 2026 meta ai tools

  I just finished a redesign of this site, so it feels like a good time to write down how I actually keep it running. The short version: I do not open a code editor very often. I talk to an...

• New Look for the Site

  31 May 2026 meta redesign

  I finally gave this site a visual refresh. Here is what changed. The background I drew a grass field in SVG and set it as the background wallpaper. It sits behind everything, fixed in place, with a gentle sway. In...

• Hello 2025

  11 Nov 2025 resume

  Time for a new resume update. Since I joined SEEK, I did not write here much 😭. I spent my time on day to day work, so public posts stopped. Now I am updating my resume to include the work...

• 2020 Résumé Review

  28 Jan 2021 resume

  I was on a job hunt in early January 2021, so it's time to revise my resume. As per the last resume review, I did this résumé following this very concise guide from the freecodecamp blog. But this time, I...

• Learning Update: Jun 2020

  30 Jun 2020 learning

  This is my second month doing learning update, I've learn a lot this month, this month also includes some of the things I started in May and completed in June. Coursera: Intro to CS I joined this course since May...

• Learning Update: May 2020

  26 May 2020 learning

  Starting this month, I want to record and track all my learnings in this blog. I have been learning so many things, but I did not track or wrote it down systematically in one place. This is my attempt to...

• 2019 Résumé Review

  09 May 2020 resume

  Let us review my 2019 résumé before I quit my job at PetChem. I did this résumé following this very concise guide from freecodecamp blog. As I am changing my career from a non-tech to a software engineer, I want...

• Hello World

  08 May 2020 meta

  First blog post. Hello World!