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I openly document AI workflows, real projects, and engineering judgment, alongside long-term writing on growth, philosophy, and life.About this blog
Why Opus 5.5 Makes Better Animations: What Real Projects Reveal
An animated character moves through several shots without changing color or proportions. Captions appear on cue, and the final movement lands on a musical beat. …
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Maintaining a UI on Your Own: A Design System with Figma, Figwright, and AI
I build products on my own, and I want a design system that helps me maintain their UI and frontend over time. Finishing …
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IMStage: Editable Chat Scenes
The same support demo needs a WeChat version, a WhatsApp version, and different people and photos. The dialogue barely …
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Why Opus 5.5 Makes Better Animations: What Real Projects Reveal
An animated character moves through several shots without changing color or proportions. Captions appear on cue, and the final movement lands on a musical beat. …
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Agent System Design Anatomy
Control, state, identity, and responsibility in real systems
Source-grounded studies of Pi, n8n, and OpenClaw: trace who controls the loop, owns …
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Agent Engineering
Five essays from context foundations to production systems
Five interlocking long-form essays: the foundations of context engineering, a panoramic map …
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Common Sense Is Not the Mechanism: Rebuilding Industries Around Demand, Constraints, and Scarcity
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Forgetting Is Harder Than Remembering: Why a Living System Must Know When to Let Go
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Claude Code Playbook: 10 Configurations for Reliable Agent Workflows
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Loop Engineering for Solo Builders: Verifiers, State, and Safe Automation
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Maintaining a UI on Your Own: A Design System with Figma, Figwright, and AI
I build products on my own, and I want a design system that helps me maintain their UI and frontend over time. Finishing a page is only the beginning: features …
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Argo CD in Production: GitOps Sync, ApplicationSets, Rollbacks, and Security
A green sync does not prove the delivery system is safe When Argo CD turns an application green, it proves one narrow …
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Kubernetes Resources and Learning Path Summary
Requirements 🔥 We need to further study and advance in kubernetes, reading source code is a necessary path. 👀 More …
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September 2026 Thought Notes: Architecture, Temples and First Principles
2026 September Thought Notes 220 notes this month | recorded from 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-10 Themes: AI and Agent Systems 105 · Daily Notes and Everything Else 44 …
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August 2026 Thought Notes: Agent Harness, Product and Self-Knowledge
2026 August Thought Notes 484 notes this month | recorded from 2026-08-04 to 2026-08-31 Themes: AI and Agent Systems 212 …
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AI Made Me Smarter—and Slower to Meet Reality
During a 48-hour engineering task, I wrote down one sentence: “At this point, I’ve spent half the time designing, …
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I Don't Have an Execution Problem. I Need a Battlefield That Can Say No
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Reading Hongyi in Quanzhou: Seeing Through, Then Taking Life Seriously
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The Scoreboard You Choose Will Eventually Choose You: How Incentives Reshape an Organization
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The Opposite of Freedom Isn’t Constraint—It’s the Defaults That Live Your Day for You
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Reading Hongyi in Quanzhou: Seeing Through, Then Taking Life Seriously
At dusk, I sat on the rooftop of Youli Café and raised my coffee cup toward the twin pagodas of Kaiyuan Temple. The camera recognized the distant towers and …
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When Generation Becomes Infinite, Authentic Experiences Begin to Command Value
This piece is a thought experiment in simulated interviews. The interviewees are synthesized from field anthropology …
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Environment as the Hidden Author: Why Moving Cities Feels Like Becoming Someone Else
This piece is a thought experiment conducted through simulated interviews. The two interviewees are fictional …
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JUL 31Growth & Life
When Distance No Longer Changes You: What Keeps Life Moving After Exploration Fails
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MAY 31Growth & Life
2026 May Thought Notes: On the Edge, I Recognize Myself Through Action
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April 2026 Thought Notes: Living in Laos, Borders, AI and Agents
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March 2026 Thought Notes: Money, Genocide Memory, Southeast Asia
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Field Notebooks游记
A FIELD NOTEBOOK
Vietnam
Field Notes from the Mekong
VOL.1BEAR · 2024
2024 · 越南
Vietnam
越南 · Field Notes from the Mekong
"From Hanoi's narrow alleys to the Mekong delta — a slow-cooked record of motorbikes, coffee, monsoon rain, and the strange comfort of being a stranger."
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Angkor
吴哥窟 · Stones, Roots & Empire
"On the temples beyond the postcards — banyan roots crawling over a lost capital, and what a vanished empire still says to us about scale and silence."
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156Pages
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