Wai Hon's Blog

Background: A Decade of Arch Linux Arch Linux was my distribution of choice for more than a decade.

Recently, I came across these plain text systems and concepts: The One-Line-Per-Day, One-Page Plain Text Daily Journal: A single, reverse-chronological plain text file to record only the most significant event of each day in a single line.

A recent security incident on the Arch Linux AUR (Arch User Repository) highlighted the potential risks of running community-maintained packages without thorough auditing.

For a long time, I didn’t use deadlines in Org-mode at all.

The Itch One thing I particularly love about org-mode is org-indent-mode, which visually indents content under each heading based on its level.

Problem: Repeated or Not?

Fun fact: a coworker thought I was using a GUI application when they saw my terminal Emacs.

10 years ago, when I became a software engineer, my mentor showed me how to replace all occurrences of a string (or a regex) under a large codebase effectively with a tool called codemod.

Problem: Slow Throughput at Home Network I host some services at home by mapping public domain names to my home IP.

Disclaimer: The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my company.

This post first talks about the PARA method and then my Org-mode implementation for organizing tasks and notes.

My last post mentioned the out-of-the-box experience of Denote is not so great, especially when having notes across many subdirectories.

Updates 2022-12-08: Check out the followup post Using Denote with Subdirectories to improve the out-of-the-box experience of Denote.

I have been using Syncthing with Caddy’s WebDAV to synchronize my Org Mode files across computers and mobiles for few weeks.

Our team works on Android and uses adb logcat a lot.

I have a habit of hitting the save shortcut (C-x C-s) occasionally.

Problem Statement Scratchpad is a useful i3 feature to always have your favorite apps at hand.

For many years, I’ve used full-size keyboards, but they’ve presented a couple of recurring ergonomic problems: the mouse feels too far away from the typing area, and I often find mouse movement to the left restricted when it hits the keyboard.

The limits of language are the limits of one’s world.

I am bad at writing, especially in English, which is not my native language.

Pavel Korytov wrote an inspiring blog post to get a consistent set of keybindings between i3 and Emacs.

pass is a simple command-line password manager that follows the Unix philosophy.

My mother-in-law has left three months before, leaving my wife and me to care for our son at home.

I have heard of “saturated fat”, “unsaturated fat”, “high-density lipoprotein” (HDL), and “low-density lipoprotein” (LDL) many times, but have never known or cared which are good and which are bad.

Make 24 is a traditional math game with simple rule – given 4 numbers, you are asked to make 24 with addition +, subtraction -, multiplication * and division /.

As mentioned in the last post, I switched to Org-mode.

Since 2017, Evernote has been my productivity system for note-taking and task management.

Updates 2022-12-17: The official archinstall script greatly simplify the Arch Linux installation, even with full disk encryption.

3 years ago, I switched from Mac OS back to Linux.

Update 2020-10: I am going back to Hugo and writing blog post with Emacs+Org-Mode+ox-hugo.

The recent shelter-in-place / stay-at-home order has dramatically changed our routines.

In the previous post 2019 Year-End Reflection, I wrote: I kept a daily journal.

It is probably easier to explain what ineffective reading is first.

In this era, there are “productive people” who use “productivity systems” to manage day-to-day chores, TODOs, notes and so on.

2019 was a year of changes for me, marked by newly developed habits and the new responsibility of becoming a father.

This post explains why I was not using Kubernetes for personal projects.