Tommy Ku's Blog

Oh wow I am still around.

DIY watch making has became my hobby when my body and my work prevented me from going under the sun and shoot some film photos, which I also enjoyed.

Due to the mechanical nature of mechanical watches, there are many many moving parts susceptible to shock and wear.

In the past few months I have built enough watches to say something about DIY watch making.

One little footprint I left as an intern web developer at EventXtra from 2016.

Nearly 12 years ago, I collected my brand new ThinkPad X230 from a factory building somewhere in Kowloon Bay, and returned home to boot up Windows 7 for the first time.

Note: Unlike most other posts, this one is not instructional.

Background (skippable) Monica is a personal CRM for managing contact list and journey entries.

This is a (rather late) follow-up to my previous posts to self-dogfooding the use tracking pixel to track the number of page views to my site while being as lazy as I can.

I don’t remember when did I first learn about TiddlyWiki. 10 years ago perhaps, when TiddlyWiki 2 was still the major version. 10 years ago I was still using free hosting and cPanel to run small self-developed PHP 4 note-taking programs.

In bullet points Became single Returned to office Grew in project management skillset at work Ran 3 times a week comfortably Realized head-over-water breaststroke Did some work on the side Matured home NAS setup Attended first aid training Continued posti…

In Website analytics for lazy people I have shown that you can use bit.ly to load a tracking pixel from your page, and thus capture the view count of the page that works even when JavaScript is disabled, and can fly under your ad blocker’s radar.

In bullet points Worked from home Ran twice a week, swam while had chance Did more work outside BAU Organized a few photowalks among friends Wrote more unit tests and regression tests Saw a few friends left for another company Missed my cousin’s wedding d…

Imagine shouting into the void where there’s absolutely no echo.

This is my ThinkPad X230.

In a corner of the populous Web town lies the IndieWeb district.

Filmsy keycap of Lenovo ThinkPad's Delete key has broken I tried a few out-dated methods using xmodmap{: .language-} and getting ~/.xinitrc{: .language-} to run on startup but even if .xinitrc{: .language-} is executed, the key is still not mapped.

Sometime in November I bought an AGAT 18K on eBay.

In a previous post I have mentioned a disposable camera can be reloaded if you aren’t ready to commit to buying a more functional camera.

It was done in commit 781edb5e523d5a6e08339d58035806f073a4a131.