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My life in Japan has moved one step forward. It does not feel like reaching the destination in one go, but more like entering the next stage, so calling it an updated save point feels more accurate.

Taipei, Brisbane, Kusatsu, and the fleeting thoughts in between. If I could give a faint smile the moment I step out the door, perhaps that would be my ideal life.

My 2025 annual review and 2026 expectations.

Documenting my life working at Kusatsu Onsen Ski Resort, the feelings of the past month and a half, and the process of slowly getting better.

I didn't live that well, but I was afraid of living well. When I received a message from my mother at Christmas, I finally figured out why I was so afraid.

The Australian working holiday ended in just four months. After going around in a circle, I returned to the original starting point. About why I left early, the change in thinking in between, and a review of this trip.

Having worked in an Australian vegetable and fruit factory for almost two months, labor work, which is at the opposite end of the scale from brain-using software engineers, unexpectedly gave me a lot of insights. This article will share the aspects I hope to pursue in work in the future, such as identity that can be stayed, money that can be saved, easy-to-get-along partners, peace of mind, and accumulating influence, etc.

Being in a foreign land makes the idea of "home" particularly strong, but actually I don't have a "home" to return to in Taiwan either. I might still be able to stay at relatives' or friends' houses, but those won't be my home. In this article, I will share my current imagination of home through self-questioning and answering, and how I hope to pursue my "home" in the future.

I have been in Australia for a full month! I have also been working on the factory assembly line for a week. Turning from a software engineer who could work from home or sit in the office typing on the keyboard, to cutting pumpkins on the factory assembly line until my hands hurt. In this article, I will share the difficulties of finding the first job for a working holiday in Australia, Australia's treasure libraries and pumpkin cutting assembly line work, and question again why I am here.

In the first week on the Gold Coast, Australia, recording the mood after saying goodbye to friends and Taiwan, reflecting on software engineer career burnout, progress of job hunting, and miscellaneous thoughts on arriving in Australia.

A software engineer pressed the career pause button and decided to leave Taiwan temporarily. From career bottlenecks, housing justice to struggles with the original family, this is my true journey of leaving for Australia and Japan to find a different way of life.

Deploy a WordPress site quickly using AWS EC2 and Easy Engine (domain bought from Cloudflare). Requires a little programming background but is cheap and fast, with high freedom and scalability!

A three-day trip to Tokyo chasing stars that I didn't want to go initially, allowed me to detach from daily life, rediscover the vastness and relaxation of the world. Also chatting about Tsubame-yu, Kawazu Sakura and Aimer's concert.

2024 Year in Review, a year where the spring loosened, briefly mentioned what I completed and what I didn't, and my pain. Discussed my expectations for 2025 from life, career, finance, and interpersonal relationships, and decided to take good care of myself before exerting influence.

My Facebook account was suspended without warning, losing all past posts, photos, chat history, and groups. I recorded the incident, lost connections and memories, reflections on social media, and future plans here: ensuring data autonomy, actively managing information sources, formulating social media usage guidelines, and focusing on building small and close communities.

Discussing in detail "Draw Your Own Map" mentioned in the 2023->2024 Annual Review, how the map helped me, how to draw it, and my map version records and current status.

One year after building my personal website, I only wrote six articles. Why didn't I write more? This article records some thoughts during this period and before, including difficulties encountered in writing, mindset adjustments afterwards, and current goals.

Thoughts on Shishitoren Arc, saw goal and process in it. Presented Togame's self-blame, Choji's darkening and Umemiya's broad-mindedness well.

Thoughts on the movie "The Concierge", and life reflections touched by it

Thoughts on the movie "Robot Dreams", and life reflections touched by it

2023 Year in Review, discussed my views on annual reviews, last year's insights, decisions, things completed, expectations for next year, and why we should exert influence.

Introduce eval in JavaScript, talk about why not to use it, and finally look at its application and alternatives through the interview questions of reading `<script />` and getting JS calculation results when crawling with App Script.

Deal with the JS asychronous from sequential fade-in animation. Step by step refactor the code from Callback, Promise to Async/Await, providing cleaner and more maintainable code.

Methodology and mindset about how I build my workout habits as an office workers

About "Why set up a personal website", "why write" and "how to choose the tech stack"

2022 Year in Review

A small example of integrating Google Login using Vue and Express.

A journey and reflection of a non-CS liberal arts graduate transitioning to a software engineer for three years, talking about my imposter syndrome and how to affirm myself.

2021 Year in Review

Introduce font design process (unprofessional version), what are font files, and how web pages use fonts.

The nature of a software engineer is actually very close to that of an architect, except they build houses and we build systems. A good house requires good architectural design, blueprints, understanding of the structure, and a lot of time spent on planning and design. This concept corresponds to Design System in web pages!

Choosing a frontend framework has always been a big question for many beginners (including me). I started writing React because my company was using it. Recently, due to some circumstances, I started touching Angular, which inspired me to think more about "Frontend Frameworks". Issues like what "framework" actually refers to? What can be called a "framework"? Why does frontend need to use it? What happens if you don't use it? I heard Vue3 is powerful, should I learn it? And so on.

The second article of Atomic Habits series. Moving from understanding to practice. Breaking down habits into four steps, and following the lines to build our atomic habits (but due to length issue, this article introduces the first step first)!

The first article of Atomic Habits series. Lack of willpower is not your fault. With atomic habits, everything will be fine. Break the myth of goal-oriented, system is the truth!

Atomic Habits Reading Notes