Tristan Lee

2026-07-17

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Reformatting files.

2026-07-16

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Relaxing day, cleaning the house

2026-07-12

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Testing workflows.

2026-07-08

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tired. Pain.

2026-07-05

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Returned back to Singapore early morning. Back to job searching.

2026-06-29

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than right now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

The Zen of Python

2026-06-28

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Accompanied 姑婆 to buy a new mobile phone - Redmi 15 at Vivocity. Lunch at Sunset way cafe, early dinner at Harbourfront, fried kuey tiao.

2026-06-27

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Rebuilt complete backup infrastructure from scratch. Three automated daily backups: home, server and cloud. rsync, rclone, restic. Not only, configured systemd timers in home. Fixed and standardise scripts for future.

2026-06-26

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hello test. I added this posix script and a few others. Still learning.

2026-06-25

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Start of a new day, 5 more days to the China trip.

2026-06-24

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Moved a whole bunch of stuff off github. Change this change that.

2026-06-22

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Theory of the day: corporate reorgs are simulated annealing.

(A one-line theory inspired by yet another reorg announcement at BigCo that seems to affect nothing.)

2026-06-21

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Added RSS feed support and .md extensibility to diary. Much simpler without C scripts.

Afternoon visit to Grandma's. In Singapore, Father's Day is celebrated today on the third Sunday of June but is not a public holiday.

2026-06-20

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Debugging Bash and C scripts. Future proofing. Relaxing Saturday.

2026-06-19

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Some C programming. Dim Sum for lunch. Afternoon visit to grandma's.

2026-06-18

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Normal day, implementing agentic ai. Some light housekeeping.

2026-06-17

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

New day. More scripting. Simplicity is king. Removed unnecessary daemons.

2026-06-16

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Applied for a few jobs, some light cleaning, and studying.

2026-06-15

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Massive breakthroughs today, delegated split dns-hosting with tailscale underneath the hood. Now exploring options to obfuscate traffic through a vps and vpn.

2026-06-14

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

New day. Testing whether the new compose script works. Researching on email service providers. Light sweeping, anki, duolingo.