La Vita è Bear

I haven’t used Mac for 5 years now (except my last job for 6 months because they only support mac developer environment).

I have a few Linux machines (one Linux box at home, and a few VPS) running Debian testing (currently Forky).

Or, why I don’t like Samsung’s products.

I have been using Cactus as the commenting system since migrated to the current blog system (PandaBlog), but that’s changing.

旅行 2025 flight map 今年继续超越去年成为我有史以来飞得最多的一年。

Years ago when I was still at Google I used Comcast Business as my ISP.

Just finished my Alaska Milkrun trip.

I had been using Google/Nest Wifi routers since the original OnHub days.

I mentioned last year that how I almost always preferred trackpads over mice, and Apple was always the only manufacturer of external trackpads, and my 2 Apple Magic Trackpads both have swollen batteries and need to be replaced.

You might have noticed that the favicon of this blog has changed recently, or noticed that the fediverse handle @b.yuxuan.org@b.yuxuan.org has an avatar now.

旅行 2024 flight map 今年因为种种原因飞了五个跨太平洋的往返，应该是我有史以来飞得最多的一年了。

I don’t know about others, but if given a choice, I always prefer trackpads over regular mice (except for the cases of playing games, but the last game I played requiring a mouse was StarCraft 2 more than 10 years ago).

I just visited Katmai National Park (the Brooks Falls/Camp part) on my latest Alaska trip.

My mother passed away earlier this year.

I talked about what RSS readers my readers use before, I guess now is the time for round 2.

tl;dr: Just search for @b.yuxuan.org@b.yuxuan.org on your home instance and follow there!

At the beginning of this year, during her annual check up, Kaylee was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism.

A big thing in the home automation world in 2023 is that we finally start to have Matter devices.

旅行 2023 flight map 今年去了趟日本，去了趟德国，去了两趟加拿大，然后去了三趟英国。

Since I added support to my new Kobo eink reader to url2epub, I’ve been reading a lot of long web articles on it, and one thing starts to bother me: Kobo is the only epub reader, hardware or software, that do not auto downscale bigger images in my knowled…

Over this past Black Friday shopping season, I purchased yet another e-ink reader: Kobo Sage.

(If this reappears in your RSS reader as new, my apologise: There was a typo in the original URL that was fixed, as a result this post would appear as new with a new URL.)

Background url2epub is a Go open source project I did after I bought a reMarkable 2, as my way to easily send webpages to it to read later.

I played Cyberpunk 2077 on Stadia.

With the sale of Google Domains, I need to find a new home for my domains.

10 years after the shutdown of Google Reader, there’s no longer a single dominant player in the field, and it’s interesting to see the variety of the choices.

Updated 2023-07-14: Replaced all -Ctx to -Context as the rename happened on go 1.21rc3 With the release of the first RC of go 1.21 earlier this week, I’m polishing my ctxslog package I’ve been using with my Google Cloud Run services, and preparing for a v…

Or, how to render static HTML files from database dump of PHP blogging system.

url2epub is a Go library I wrote to generate readable HTML (by stripping out unnecessary html elements), and also epub files, from URLs.

Because of go’s error handling design, a lot of functions return 2 values: the result and an error.

Nitter is an Open Source alternative Twitter web frontend.

这是我在这个新 blog 系统上的第一篇中文日志。

Stadia is shutting down in less than a month.

I have been wearing the new Google Pixel Watch for a month now, including wearing it to an international trip (Japan).

When I wrote NotifBot Android app, I needed a backend for it (both for handling Android app requests and to handle Telegram webhooks), and I picked Google App Engine for it as it has a generous free tier, that I can run the backend almost free.

The irony.

After made the decision of using PolarBearBlog as my new blog system, I immediately started to make some tweaks to my like, as this is in go, a language I’m quite familiar with (this is also one of the reasons I picked this system).

This is a new blog from me.