Random thoughts

SURPRISE YOURSELF:

Pre-order things, forget them right after, and be surprised by the 'out-of-nowhere' credit card charge notifications

2025/10/29

SLACK EMOJI REACTIONS OCD

If a message has 2 emoji reactions: one with 3 clicks and one with 2. I gotta hit the one with 2 clicks to reach the ultimate balance ⚖️

2025/10/22

NEW YEAR RESOLUTION

[ ] <- empty space

2025/01/01

SPOTTED SHOPS SELLING ADVENT CALENDAR BEFORE END OF SEPTEMBER

I thought it'd start the countdown from October but no it still starts on the first day of December :shrug:

2024/09/25

SUCCESSFULLY PREVENTED ANOTHER 'ALWAYS-FORGET-TO-CANCEL-BEFORE-FREE-TRIAL-ENDS' INCIDENT

ヾ(⌐■_■) By choosing to write a python script to merge my PDFs instead of saying yes to Adobe 7-day free trial

2024/07/23

MODERN SISYPHUS(?)

Spent a year to get used to write 2023/xx/xx, and then it's 2024

2024/02/02

JUST REALIZED THAT I MIGHT NOT BE AS POLITE AS I THOUGHT I WAS

I never greet ChatGPT before asking my question

2023/12/12

'PROCRASTINATION WITHOUT DEADLINES IS INVINCIBLE.'

- yet another procrastinator, Qi

2023/09/10

POTTERY-DERIVED PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE

Set your expectation low and let it be

2023/05/07

(´≖◞౪◟≖)

Though I already knew it by heart, the reality has showed me again - USE GIT PUSH --FORCE WITH CAUTION!!!!(and no I'm not going to get into details here..)

2023/03/30

SIGN OF AGING

It's February and my best purchase of the year: a massage pillow

2023/02/28

PROCRASTINATION

When `npm audit fix` won't solve all the vulnerabilities of your project, you revert the changes that it just made and tell yourself 'next time'

2023/01/07

LIFELONG IMPACT FROM YOUR EDUCATION

you will describe every last day of your vacation by 'you know that feeling you have starting every Sunday afternoon before going back to school? I call it Sunday Sadness'

2023/01/01

HOW TO GIVE UP ON ANY PROJECTS

when you realize you are paying for way too many unused domains and then decide to turn off 'auto-renew'

2022/06/21

FIRST STEP OF ANY PROJECTS

buy a domain at a reasonable price

2022/06/21

HOW TO KILL ANY PROJECT IDEAS

search for domain names and check their prices

2022/06/21

DOUBLE QUOTE IS ALWAYS BETTER

because you can write anyword with ' (for example: can't) without any hassles. #life-hacks-from-qi-after-struggled-10mins-to-find-out-why-YAML-isn't-working-lolcry

2022/04/26

CRINGE INTOLERANCE REMEDIES

Cringy moments of any shows you are watching: 1. skip it 2. cover your eyes 3. don't watch cringy things in the theatre because you can't fast forward. Potential cringy silence in real life: 1. keep talking 2. trigger someone who's talkative 3. find an excuse and leave

2022/03/21

PRIVACY IS A LIE

Me: Turned off all my personalized recommendations. Social media: Ok, but we still know what you like →_→

2022/03/06

GOOGLE DOCS FEATURE REQUEST

I wish there could be a *real* incognito mode for google docs. It's pretty embarrasing when you are editing something alone and someone suddenly shows up (no matter I know this person or not). The simlar example in the real world is: someone enters when you are having number 2 alone in the public washroom. (I'm not exaggerating)

2022/03/02

HALF-BROKEN BACKSPACE KEY

for it to work, you have to smash VERY HARD => really trains my finger muscle => because I'm a typo master ヾ(-_-;)

2022/02/04

SIDE EFFECTS(ADD TYPES TO UNTYPED CLASSES)

= rewrite 50%+ of the tests

2021/08/23

BACK TO GYM AFTER 1 YEAR+

( •́ω•̩̥̀ ) My muscles were still shocked after 5 days

2021/06/28

LIGHT MODE USER SKILL BONUS

Shield++ for the complains received from a dark mode user during a pairing session

2021/05/18

GOING TO THE HAIRDRESSER

Appointment total time: 1h. The real cutting time: 20mins. The rest 40mins: Styling your hair(using different hair products, hairdryer, curling iron, etc.) to make your hair looks nicer and thicker TEMPORARILY.

2021/05/04

SIGNS OF AGING: SLOWED-DOWN METABOLISM

When you found out you couldn't fall asleep after drinking bubble tea at night

2021/03/16

FIRST WORKING DAY OF THE YEAR

Resolving complicated conflicts on your last year's PR be like (•ิ_•ิ)? (・̮︢︠ː・̮︢︡) (ㅍ_ㅍ)

2021/01/04

REFACTORING STORY

Refactor a single class in 50 lines plus 500+ lines to fix the tests that it breaks

2020/10/16

READING MY OLD NOTES:

Trying to figure out the meaning of those notes without titles with a typical failure rate ~85%

2020/10/13

WEDNESDAY

♪ No meeting Wednesday, super productive Wednesday ♪

2020/10/07

COFFEESCRIPT REDEMPTION

Maybe it's not coffeescript that's confusing but how people write it

2020/09/30

COFFEESCRIPT

makes frontend development more confusing for a not-frontend-expert dev.

2020/08/27

HACKATHON

'Imagine that we have something that can do A, B, ..., Z, etc.' => Sketchy prototype that does ~1/2 A

2020/07/08

WFH

bedroom distraction: bed, living room distraction: cat

2020/04/02

TYPICAL [SUDDENLY-STOP-WORKING] BUGS

are most likely to be resolved by just re-starting your server.

2020/02/26

SIDE WEB PROJECT FOR NON-UX DEV

Actively trying to minimize the potential chance of writing CSS

2020/02/05

FULL JOB TITLE

Developer + Company Slack Emoji Contributer

2019/12/20

DECIMAL CALCULATION ADDICTION

Nobody but me: 'v17.6.9 + small update = v17.7.0 right?'

2019/12/04

SLEEPY SLEEPINESS

zZZZ

2019/11/21

DRINKING COFFEE = CALL AN ASYNCHRONOUS FUNCTION

It takes time to kick in

2019/10/07

BLUE SWITCH KEYBOARD IS USEFUL AT OFFICE

when you are arguing with your teammates(who sit right next to you) on slack

2019/09/26

THE *ULTIMATE* KAOMOJI

can be used to reply everything (´･_･`)

2019/09/20

LIMITATION

The limitation of everything is that it has limitations

2019/07/14

BUSINESS IDEA

A business that sells business ideas

2019/07/02

GIT & LIFE

git squash my life -> . (the point of my life)

2019/05/31

NO INSPIRATION

2019/05/21