TIL [Book Recap] The Manager's Path Re-reading this book as a reminder of best practices of manager behavior at various levels. Here is a recap. Chapter 1. Management 101 "The secret of managing is keeping the people who hate you away from the ones who haven’t made up their minds. - Casey Stengel"
Travel London We visited London in Jan 2024. Here is a quick trip report. (Originally posted here) 1. Westminster Abby, mostly to check out famous ppl’s tombs; nice site and history too; I quite like the colors from these shots from Ricoh GRIII (first trip with this little pocket camera, very
TIL [Book Recap] Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Notes from Introduction The first part of the book is an Introduction by the translator George Hay, which provides useful context. About Marcus: * "He would have claimed to be, at best, a diligent student and a very imperfect practitioner of a philosophy developed by others. As for the imperial
Using Ghost How to add a table of contents in Ghost without editing the site template How to add a table of contents in Ghost without editing the site template
Web Development How to Add EmailOctopus Form to a React App EmailOctopus form is a script tag, this post shows how to make that work with React (using useEffect and useRef).
TIL [Book Recap] The Minimalist Entrepreneur I've been following Sahil Lavingia since 2020 because of his viral post Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company. I am pretty excited to read this first book from him, The Minimalist Entrepreneur. The is a recap of what I learned.
Web Development React, Redux and Redux-Saga A short note about the evolution from React to the need of Redux and some supporting tool chain for it.
Travel Italy In October 2021, we spent two weeks traveling to various cities in Italy, including Rome, Cinque Terre, Florence, Tuscany, and Venice. This was our first trip to Italy, and we have documented our journey with a report and photos.
Travel Utah Trip report (itinerary and photos) from our recent trip to southern Utah (Zion, Arches, Canyonlands and Bryce).
Web Development My Frontend Learning Plan - 2021 My plan and progress updates on learning web frontend development more or less from scratch. Will be semi-regularly updated.
Using Ghost How to Enable Preview for Member-Only Content in Ghost Automatically add preview / teaser content for Member-Only posts in Ghost.
Using Ghost Table of Contents in Ghost Automatically generated table of contents in Ghost, conditionally shown when it is not empty.
Using Ghost Featured-First Post Order in Ghost Making featured posts show up first in Ghost Casper theme (instead of the default reverse chronological order).
Using Ghost Editing Tips for Ghost I recently switched to Ghost to host my blog, Here are some editing tips as I learn to use this platform.
Using Ghost Moving to Ghost My onboarding experience with Ghost and some wishlist items for future improvements.
Machine Learning Recent Progress in Language Modeling This page is a high-level summary / notes of various recent results in language modeling with little explanations
Machine Learning NLP Starter Resources A list of starter resources for Natural Language Processing (NLP), mostly with deep learning.