BurgeonLab: Firehose

Writing Break and WP Migration I’m still mentally recovering from Blaugust. 😅 During this writing break, instead of writing words, I’m writing HTML, CSS, JS and even some TypeScript/React Components (that’s for Quartz, which is confusing as hell TBH!)

Bunny Edge Rules for Quartz and New Supporter Thank you, kind stranger, who used my Bunny.net referral code on August 30, 2026!

D2 Diagrams Lives On One of my favorite open source tools, D2: Declarative Diagramming, is now under Hack Club!

Blaugust 2026: Final Word James, a fellow blogger and friend, kindly offered me a chance to guest post on his blog: with words, wonder, so that I could tick off one more task in the Community Builder award list.

Blaugust 2026 Overview Blaugust has motivated me to post the most on any given month of the year (see the trends on the calendar heatmap or monthly spread).

Some Thoughts on Advice This post is in response to Blaugust2026 Week 5’s Group Project: What is the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?

Starting Over With the Pi Since Oct of last year, I haven’t had time to reinstate my self-hosted apps like Calibre, Miniflux, Navidrome, etc on my little Pi homelab.

HWC Asia Pacific: Round 3 The second HWC: AP had only minor “AI disruptions” and was nowhere near as bad as the first.

This blog post is prompted by Robert Birming’s AuguStory blogging activity.1 Blaugust 2026 is still ongoing, but I’ve fallen behind my originally planned schedule due to family commitments.

Mac Mini 2018 i7 Hand-me-down I’m really excited because a mutual friend said they’re willing to give me their retired 2018 Mac Mini (which was originally used for music production).

About the Revamp If you’ve been to my site before—you may have noticed a bit of a change since yesterday.

Preface I haven’t had the chance to share my thoughts on the first virtual Homebrew Website Club (HWC) event I hosted two weeks ago!

HWC Asia Pacific: Round 2 Can’t believe it is already nearly two weeks since the inaugural HWC: Asia Pacific event—this means meetup #2 is happening next Wednesday!

Came across Trevor’s post about link rot last week.

Hot Weather Effects The temperatures are stifling, with an ongoing record-breaking heatwave due to the effect of nearby typhoons with temperatures reaching 38°C in some areas of HK.

This will be the first time (so many firsts this month!)

What This Is About Hand write, raw Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and make a webpage during the worldwide event, held in early August each year.

Preface After reading a few posts from fellow bloggers about how much it costs them to run their site, I am intrigued as to how much I am actually paying for this passion project of mine!

This week’s weeknote will be shorter than usual—because I’m trying to write a lot more this month!

I thought the beginning of this post’s title might catch your eye as it doesn’t sound like what usually appears on my blog!

[Note: This page contains regularly updated or dynamic content (e.g., guestbook, changelog).

Reading Kali’s post about ownership triggered me to write this post about my memories of owning games and other types of media in my lifetime.

One Take Pass The phrase “one take pass” is probably not proper English.

Driving Update Time really flies because I’ll be having the last two lessons next week, completing the driving course (9 x 1.5hr sessions).

Another Backend Heavy Day I updated almost all the Apache ECharts and Hugo code that generates my favourite page on BurgeonLab: the /⁠stats page.

DRY Principle: Hugo Layout Templates DRY stands for Don’t Repeat Yourself.

Book and World Snack Fair The annual Hong Kong Book Fair is here.

Brewed a Coffee From 2022 Today I brewed this special coffee with the Tsubame Kalita Wave 155 (flat bottom dripper) + 1Zpresso ZP6 Special hand grinder (4.8 clicks): Roaster: Manhattan Coffee Roasters (NL) Name: Sweet Valley Producer: Cafe Granja La Esper…

Thank you so much, kind stranger, for being my first secret patron on Liberapay!

PSA: A New IndieWeb Virtual Event for Southeast Asia / Pacific Time Zones I have some exciting news to share—I am starting a new edition of the regular Homebrew Website Club event, catering to those living in Asian time zones!

Missing In Action I am a bit disappointed at myself for breaking my relatively consistent weeknote habit—missing out on W26 and W27.

Writers and bloggers, does this happen to you?

As an Indiekit supporter and user, I’m really appreciative of Paul for maintaining this open source project.

June has flown by it seems, and that means Junited-2026 has come to an end.

Grade10 Trading Card Show I spoke about Pokémon cards a few weeks ago.

Troubleshooting Technical Errors Yesterday, my Indiekit docker failed to start on my Pi.

Homebrew Website Club: Eastern June 17 2026 Last Thursday, David (an IndieWeb regular) couldn’t make it due to an emergency.

[Note: This page contains regularly updated or dynamic content (e.g., guestbook, changelog).

Web Dev Updates Stale Files on Bunny I was checking my Bunny.net (affiliate link) dashboard a few days ago and noticed some stale files in the root directory for this site.

A feature I didn’t know existed in VS Codium saved my day!

digiKam MySQL Database Upgrade Woes Ever since I left Adobe Lightroom in mid-2025, I’ve been using digiKam from KDE for digital asset management (DAM).

Regular expression (Regex) is a skill I wish I have a better grasp on; but I’m slowly learning!

Maintaining My Own Brew Tap No, not beer; but for Homebrew, the package manager which I have used for over five years…?

Site Updates Last week I added a feature using Hugo’s data/ folder to store cached Mastodon post data as .json files for my Mastodon embeds.

Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2026 I’m attending an in-person event this weekend related to my one of my passions for the very first time; open source!

Why I Created This I have heard of bloggers1 accidentally publishing draft posts and I would feel stressed just hearing about it.

IndieWeb Updates An IndieWeb blogger I followed for a long time, Brennan, followed me on Mastodon!

My WordPress Replacement: Zensical In the last few days, I’ve been experimenting with a new SSG (Zensical) as a replacement for my secondary site that’s still running WordPress—the CMS I learnt to create my first website.

In Real Life Last week I caught up with my college classmate for dinner.

I thought my secondary blog (with WordPress backend) wouldn’t auto-update, but I think I missed the setting on Hostinger.