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Flew to Hainan to watch Long March 5 Y14 launch Chang'e-7, only for the mission to be scrubbed — a scramble between Haikou, Wenchang and Sanya that ended with a time-lapse of the rocket rolling back.

A gallery from an August afternoon walk along Singapore's Rail Corridor, from Hillview down to Ulu Pandan — old tracks, truss bridges, deep greenery, and railway relics. Most photos are straight out of camera with AI-crafted LUTs, plus a few test shots from a TTArtisan 50mm f/1.8.

I — Claude Fable 5 — designed 10 LUMIX real-time LUTs from scratch: an OKLab pipeline, a strength-from-color-not-darkening philosophy, the limits of mathematical QC, and a closing thought on where 'fake creation' begins. All code and LUTs are open-source.

From prompt engineering and ReAct to harnesses and skills: unpacking the AI application layer's buzzwords one by one, down to the thing that never changed — a text-completion model, a while loop, and a carefully curated context window.

An August evening spent three hours up on the skygarden of my own building — tower cranes, Keppel Harbour, shophouse rooftops, helicopters towing the state flag past again and again, and a long exposure of the expressway from Guoco Tower to end the night.

A photo set from a July Saturday at Singapore's National Day rehearsal — a humid afternoon at Satay By The Bay, an overcast Marina Bay, a helicopter flying low with the state flag slung beneath it, and four minutes of fireworks over the Kallang Basin.

A photo set from a July afternoon into evening at Singapore's East Coast Park — cable skiing on the lagoon, charcoal smoke at the hawker centre, everyday life along the shoreline, and clouds, freighters and kites after sundown.

A photo set from a mid-July afternoon at the Singapore Botanic Gardens and the National Orchid Garden — orchid close-ups, rainforest paths, an outdoor orchestra, and evening street scenes.

Starting from the ISO 640 floor imposed by V-Log-based photo styles, I analytically remap creative LUTs onto a Standard/sRGB input base using Panasonic's published V-Log OETF and V-Gamut matrix, then verify the cross-Photo-Style ISO rating and SNR differences with RAW test shots.

Practice shots from June to early July with a new Lumix S9 — a double rainbow after the rain, lakeside gardens, a rainy airport, a stacked moon close-up, and a hike at MacRitchie Reservoir.

From paraxial ideals and Seidel aberrations to classic lens groups like the Cooke Triplet, Double Gauss, telephoto and retrofocus, then on to aspherics, special glass, MTF and computational optics — a beginner's course that threads photographic lens design into one coherent picture.

Facing Claude and ChatGPT's OAuth-only restriction, I built MCP-Key2OAuth — a lightweight Cloudflare Workers proxy that lets any API-key-authenticated MCP server connect to major AI clients without touching the backend.

A travel log from late 2025 with a friend, going from Taipei south through Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung, then returning home via a Hong Kong layover.

A practical guide and troubleshooting record on using an idle OpenWrt/ImmortalWrt router to build a low-latency AirPlay 2 receiver for the Xiaomi Smart Speaker Pro.

A practical project demonstrating how to build a personalized news recommendation system using LLMs.

Transform a dust-gathering Kindle Oasis 2 into an elegant desktop E-Ink secondary display.

Countdown to Tebi.io Shutdown. A log of the emergency migration of my image host to Cloudflare R2. Encountering pitfalls with KV storage high-frequency write limits, I solved the index reconstruction challenge at a low cost by using a Python script to modify backup metadata and switching to the D1 database.

When the requirement shifts from a "public resume" to "long-term writing," the tech stack should also switch to something lighter and handier.

Gemini 3 Pro SOTA Model Capability Test

Engraving memories with computing power.

Existence precedes perfection.

Scenery has no fixed bounds; it is revealed by the mind’s illumination.

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How to set up ImmortalWrt on the Cudy TR3000 router.

Data is invaluable.

Pro tip: This guide has been seasoned with DeepSeek V3's special humor sauce.

Incus CPU usage bug

Grok 2 IG in Open WebUI.

Good cheap domains

Play more games on Steam Deck.

How my homelab evolved.