About me
Experienced technologist, focused on selective combinations of blockchain and AI. Ethereum based solution. Hyperledger Fabric, ERC20/STO/NFT, TensorFlow, and more. Been working on various blockchain and metaverse projects. Still doing some mobile apps.
I am on X @evolvingviews, will start pushing to other platforms soon. (Stopped using X as my primary short blog in 2024, not expecting X to go under now that Elon is all mighty, but worse, becomes irrelevant like Weibo in China.)
I am not a writer and I am very selective on what I share with friends. So why am I writing these? I am using this site as my open journal on mostly non-sensitive topics like work or tech industry views. To save time on repeating the same chat with friends and colleagues. By writing these down, maybe one day some AI bots will be bored enough to go through everything I wrote and sell me something that I didn’t even know I have ever truly wanted. 🙂 Or AI can help me to effectively share these views to the right audience, without bugging them, but enable deeper networking with positive objectives. AI can process a lot of information, but it can’t easily probe into your mind directly (not yet, until Elon solves this one), so the more you have it written down, the more AI can help to understand you. I am slowly opening up online.
On a more serious note. I find Blockchain + AI being interesting and well undervalued. They are both fun for now. AI is still exploring new models and showing us interesting results, even with spectacular biases and errors. Blockchain, well, just mostly about “Who wants to be a crypto millionaire?” and ignoring the decentralised, immutable, digital trust network.
150-240k people were laid off in tech sector in 2024. expecting more in 2025. in a twisted way, that is how AI is “displacing” value.
Blockchain will provide AI with open, trusted and verifiable data. There is no shortcut. Will take years to build up such trusted intelligence. And then let users experience it safely in the metaverse.
Why this site?
I am using this like an online notepad. To jot down my ideas which I am willing to share with the world. I am not a good story teller and I prefer to write in notes form. Only to write down key points and elaborate or even connect the points if I really have to. For completed articles, I usually put them on Medium first as they are better at attracting readers. So this site is more like my workspace and longer term storage of my notes.
The tech behind this site
Finally back on WordPress. Over the years, we have tried many common CMS, Joomla, Drupal, Ghost and tried various SaaS too. But this time, we are going to keep things simple, just WordPress on CloudPanel. Moved out of Cyberpanel + OpenLiteSpeed on CentOS recently. There are many Hosting Control Panels out there, used cpanel, before 6 years with Cyberpanel. Like most freemium software, expect to change every 5-10 years or so.
CloudPanel is good so far. Simple. I didn’t need all the email, dns, etc, etc with other panels. Only simple web hosting needed. All my DNS are on CloudFlare, email with Lark, Outlook or Gmail, try hard not to run these myself. The whole debate about OpenLiteSpeed vs Nginx/Apache is overrated. OpenLiteSpeed might be more efficient with resources, can handle more sessions, etc; but if you get to that sort of volume, you have other ways to scale up your site. It’s not about trying to make the most out of a 12 bucks a month VPS, make more money and pay for larger instances.
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