My "Feeds" Page
💌 Newsletters Irrational Exuberance Probably my favourite newsletter, Will Larson shares his great thinking about tech, team, business, strategy, executive, and more. The Beautiful Mess My recent favorite. Refactoring A newsletter from Luca Rossi. His articles are simple, visual and easy to follow. His hand-drawn diagrams make reading enjoyable. Pragmatic Engineer A newsletter for engineering managers and senior engineers. It does not cover too many tech topics but I gain main insights from his content....
My "Docs" Page
📐 Architecture Azure Architecture Center A one-stop-shop for all things related to architecture AWS Well-Architected Tool Some guidelines and best practices for designing and operating systems Josh Comeau’s Blog Some great interactive in-depth guides on Front End Development 👥 Management Management 101 It’s a practical list of actions about essential management fundamentals. It got me through the first year of being a lead and it is still in my reading list for a quick refresher....
My "Stack" Page
🧠 AI ChatGPT: o1 for reasoning, 4o for general purpose, 4o-mini for simple tasks Claude AI: coding Perplexity: general searching, like OzTech DeekSeek: still experimenting Groq: public-facing simple use cases, like Emoji Any Sentence Gemini: public-facing general use cases 📈 Productivity Notion: my second brain for personal knowledge base Any.do: my life todo list Airtable: my work todo list with great automation. Spark: my email client on Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Android ~Alfred: shortcuts and workflows~ Raycast: shortcuts and workflows Rocket: for faster emoji typing 📖 Reading Hard copies with LAMY Safari Book on iPad with Apple Pencil PDF Viewer on iPad with Apple Pencil 💡 Ideation Freeform with Apple Pencil FigJam tldraw: a minimalist drawing tool ✍️ Writing Notion Medium: tech blog GitBook: structured articles 🛠️ Dev Tools (Personal use only, not for work....
My "Use" Page
Hardware M1 Mac Book Pro 13 iPad Pro 12.9 Logitech MX Anywhere 2S Keychron K7 (Brown) & K3 (Blue) FILCO Majestouch MINILA Air (Red) Dell P2422H IKEA BEKANT Desk sit/stand Pixel 8 + Buds Pro Software ~Alfred~ Raycast Alacritty VSCode / Cursor Heynote for text buffer Chrome / Edge AI Assistant ChatGPT for general usage OpenCat as a chat UI Perplexity for upper funnel searching Claude for coding Google NotebookLM for learning papers, books, whitepapers, etc
How do I set up this website?
This post is not about why people need a personal website. Why matters a lot the most, but it’s not the focus here. This is a pure tech post to share how I set up this website. ✅ Prerequisites Know Git Know coding Have a GitHub account (free plan) Have a Cloudflare account (free plan) Have a domain (paid but optional) If not all ticked, U-turn 🚧 Development 1. Choose a Site Generator I chose Hugo out of Jekyll, Ghost and custom setup....