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The reading atlas of Xinwei Xiong's (cubxxw) blog: four curated paths — AI & Technology, Growth & Thinking, Travel & Observation, Projects & Practice — for first-time visitors.

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This is the personal blog of Xinwei Xiong (cubxxw). Everything here follows four threads: AI & technology, growth & thinking, travel & observation, and projects & practice. Not sure where to begin? Here is the map I drew for first-time visitors.

Just want one post? Wandering & Growing: 2025-2026 Annual Review A year in deep review — the tech, the growth, the travel, all in one place. Read this and you will roughly know me. 25 min read Start with this one

Choose your path

Four threads, a few representative posts each. Pick the one that pulls you in.

AI & Technology

For developers curious about AI, LLMs, Kubernetes, and Go engineering.

  1. Agent Identity: From Locke to OpenClaw From Locke's personal identity to the identity of AI agents — a signature essay. 22 min read
  2. About My Hugo teaching How this blog is built: a complete Hugo walkthrough. 14 min read
  3. Kubernetes an Article to Get Started Quickly The evergreen zero-to-one introduction to Kubernetes. 23 min read
  4. GoReleaser: Automate your software releases Go release tooling and engineering practice, end to end. 53 min read
  5. The Art of Asking Questions in Open Source Communities The art of asking good questions — lesson one of open source. 48 min read
Browse all AI & technology posts

Growth & Thinking

For anyone on the road of self-discovery, annual reviews, and sharper thinking.

  1. Maintaining Self-Worth in the Age of AI When AI can do everything, where does the weight of the self sit? 10 min read
  2. Flow State: Deep Focus and Happiness Guide How to enter and hold a flow state — a complete guide. 3 min read
  3. Metacognitive Transformation Review A first-person review of a metacognitive shift. 301 min read
  4. GTD and the Quadrant Method Practice GTD and the four-quadrant rule, as a system that actually runs. 13 min read
  5. The Super-Individual Stack: AI-Native Product Directions and Solo Builder Ops in 2026 The super individual: how far can one person plus AI go? 21 min read
Browse all growth & thinking posts

Travel & Observation

For digital nomads, hikers, and cultural observers.

  1. Travel Footprints An interactive footprint map across 9 countries — the whole journey at a glance. Interactive map
  2. In 2023, I Was Wandering at the Edge of the World A year of wandering at the edge of the world — digital nomad life, unfiltered. 36 min read
  3. Japan Travel Notes — Learning to Be with Time Through Wood, Fire, and Gaps Summiting Mount Fuji, and the rest of Japan. 14 min read
  4. Lhasa: Slow and Heavy Lhasa: slow and heavy — field notes from the plateau. 1 min read
See the full travel log

Projects & Practice

For readers who want to go deep into source code and engineering practice — the highest-traffic thread on this site.

  1. Microsoft MarkItDown Tutorial: Convert PDF to Markdown A deep read of Microsoft's MarkItDown — the most-searched page on this site. 22 min read
  2. LangGraph Architecture: StateGraph, Nodes and Edges LangGraph's design, architecture, and principles, dissected. 5 min read
  3. NotebookLM: Google's AI Research Tool The RAG engineering behind Google NotebookLM. 1 min read
  4. TDD for AI: Test-Driven Development Guide Test-driven development for AI-era startups. 1 min read
  5. GPT Researcher Explained: Open Source Deep Research Agent Learning from the GPT-Researcher open-source project. 4 min read
Browse all project deep-dives

Meet me another way

Below is a draggable 3D knowledge galaxy: the core is me, orbited by my identities and the fields I focus on. Drag to rotate, click any node to dive in.

About this site

cubxxw.com is the personal blog of Xinwei Xiong (known online as cubxxw). Born in 2001, he is an AI founder, open-source contributor, and digital nomad, active in projects such as OpenIM, OpenKF, and Sealos. The blog follows four threads: AI & technology (Kubernetes, Go, LLM applications, and agent frameworks), growth & thinking (annual reviews, metacognition, flow), travel & observation (9 countries, 35+ cities, 400+ km on foot), and deep dives into open-source projects and engineering practice (MarkItDown, LangGraph, NotebookLM, GPT-Researcher, and more).

Author
Xinwei Xiong (cubxxw)
Identity
AI founder · Open-source contributor · Digital nomad
Threads
AI & Tech / Growth & Thinking / Travel / Projects
Footprint
9 countries · 35+ cities · 400+ km hiked
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