You just walked out of an hour-long meeting. Someone asks, “Can you send me the action items?” You stare at your half-legible notes and feel that familiar sinking feeling. There’s...
While the Western AI coding market gets all the attention, China has quietly built a parallel ecosystem of coding agents that rival — and in some cases undercut — their...
The AI coding agent market has fragmented into terminal CLIs, AI-native IDEs, open-source extensions, and cloud-hosted engines. I ranked the ten most relevant ones so you can stop evaluating and...
Claude Code’s plugin and skills ecosystem has exploded. There are now dozens of framework repos promising to turn your terminal agent into a disciplined engineering team. I reviewed nine of...
Three days ago, Cheng Lou quietly dropped a library called Pretext. By “quietly” I mean the internet immediately caught fire. Here’s why, and what happened when I actually used it. The...
The reason is simple: because you can — and even faster now. If you have an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) with 16GB of RAM or more, you can run powerful LLMs...
Google needed this deal far more than Apple. By embedding Gemini into 1.5 billion iPhones, Google secured its relevance as traditional search faces obsolescence in the AI era.
Introduction Video downloading on macOS can be frustrating. iTubeGo requires clicking through dialogs; other tools are bloated or unreliable. But what if you could simply right-click on any URL and...
Unlock 2-3x faster AI on Apple Silicon! This post explores optimizing models with Ollama and MLX, boosting performance for demanding applications.
Finally got around to fixing my old PC desktop. Knew about the problem for a while, but was too lazy to get around to fixing it. But sorted it out...
Humans excel at inventing games, often brilliantly designed, yet hilariously difficult to master! This post explores why we're so drawn to conquering seemingly impossible challenges.
TikTok's US strategy, focusing on localized content and partnerships, isn't universally replicable. Its success hinges on specific cultural nuances and market conditions, making it a unique model.
HashKey's IPO highlights Hong Kong's crypto ambitions, yet showcases limitations. The listing reveals regulatory hurdles and a cautious approach to fostering a thriving digital asset ecosystem.
In July 2025, the United States passed three landmark pieces of legislation that together attempt to define the future of digital finance: the GENIUS Act, the CLARITY Act, adn the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State...
I am not a financial management expert and I generally don’t write about this topic, but I’ve learned valuable lessons on my journey towards financial freedom. Here are some insights...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_Chinahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_balance_of_tradehttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20zd4k6d36ohttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2089vznzohttps://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/balance-of-trade US started having trade deficits since 1970s and grew to become the country with largest trade imbalance by far. US imported $440bn from China; China imported $145bn from America....
Just starting this page to share what AI tools I have been playing with. Kind of a journal, but might write up separate articles if I end up using any...
Every year, around May or so, I write up my wish list for the upcoming WWDC. Been doing it for a few years. Used to tweet them out, but as...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/tim-cook-apple-vision-prohttps://www.pcmag.com/how-to/what-is-spatial-computing-a-basic-explainerhttps://hugo.blog/2024/03/11/vision-pro/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krpbAMJlLTc Near the end of the VanityFair article, “When I take it off, every other device feels flat and boring”. That can be “worrying”, but also the expected result if...
(Still editing this, was our on-going journal/notes during the trip, slowly editing it into a digital nomading guide.) Spent 2 months travelling around SE Asia in June/July 2023. Met with...
(Updated on 20220712) Metaverse is still a buzzword. No clear definition on what it is and how it is going to change our world. Many movies have already explored these...
I am writing this article as part of our prelaunch of Niftnack NFT app. Not a technical deepdive about NFT, but a quick introduction to the technology and some interesting...
Want to try something new? Play around with InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). Definitely sound cool. The idea of having a decentralised P2P network to share files is not new, BitTorrent and Tor are...
(Updated 20221022) Let’s try to change the data economy together. Put a little pressure on Google and Facebook to price your time spent with their “free” services and reward you...
It’s no accident. A study conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) found that over the past 25 years, “average daily rates of...
(Updated on 20230815, fixed the libheif install issue, tested on latest/current LAMP droplet on 20.04. The auto script attached works on current 20.04 image; follow manual install for 18.04 LTS,...
(Updated for Explorer 1.1.3 and Fabric 2.3, not officially listed as a supporting v2.3, but it is working. If you prefer, can set it up with v.2.2.x LTS.) Hyperledger Explorer...
(Updated on 20240214) Just keeping a list of apps I (and my dev team) use on Mac/iOS regularly. Most of them are free apps. Started with 20, but the list...
