Several days ago, I read Xuanwo’s 2024 Review - 40 questions to myself, I think I should also make one, to make my life look like it is not that boring. 1.What did you do this year that you’d never done before? We had a wedding. I started a new career as indie developer, bootstrapped Boring Design I moved from Hangzhou to Vancouver. I started to

This is the first weekly recap in 2025. I can not control myself from making new year resolutions, but I know that’s meaningless. Recently I can not wake up on time, I am not sure whether it’s because of the lack of sleep or the lack of motivation. 😮‍💨 I read xuanwo’s blog 2024 Review - 40 questions to myself, I think I will also do a review

Developer Experience (DX) Matters, especially for side projects, non-profitable open-source projects, and early staged bootstrapped business. I Can NOT Stop Working on Day Job Recently, when I have extra energy after day job, I noticed that I prefer to spend time on my day job project, then the open source project, and finally the side project. But hold on, I have already completed the planned work for the day job project, and based on the importance, I should spend time on the side project first, then the open source project, and finally maybe some leisure time.

I do NOT like message recall/replacement. I prefer to NOT use it during online conversations, for both personal and work-related sessions. Recall or replacement messages encourage people to avoid taking responsibility for their words. It’s like saying, “I can say whatever I want, and if I regret it, I can just take it back.” It’s a way to avoid the consequences of our actions. Also at the professional level, it’s a way to avoid accountability.

1 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Professional Stuff I take a review about products built by Boring Design: EasyDevo, Free, https://easydevo.boringboring.design/, clean my mac but for developers, majorly focus on cleaning javascript node_modules, rust targets, golang build cache, and xcode build cache. Haye, Paid with subscription, https://haye.ai/, an in-context AI assistant for MacOS. It could be triggered by selection then press the hotkey, then chat