Hi. I'm Jan.

I'm a software developer living in London. Before coming back to the UK, I lived in Taipei and Beijing. This is where I blog about my interests and discoveries.

If you want to learn more about me, take a look at the about page. To stay in touch, follow me on Twitter.

All Posts

Converting A Typewriter To Colemak 19 Sep 2022
Zettelkasten 05 Mar 2021
Getting Back Into Chess 03 Mar 2021
A Beautiful Transom 02 Mar 2021
Cool Tech 01 Mar 2021
The Oaksitter 28 Feb 2021
Mould 27 Feb 2021
Anonymity 26 Feb 2021
Another New Design 25 Feb 2021
Week 1634 24 Feb 2021
Nothing But Javascript 23 Feb 2021
Retaining What I Read 22 Feb 2021
Figuring It Out 21 Feb 2021
Count Down The Days 20 Feb 2021
Some Art 25 Sep 2020
Freshness 15 Sep 2020
Subscriptions on iOS 29 Aug 2020
3000 Chinese Characters: Which Ones to Learn First? 28 Aug 2020
New Design 25 Aug 2020
Running Jekyll Inside a Docker Container 24 Aug 2020
Speaking Knots 15 Aug 2020
Week 1606 11 Aug 2020
...And We're Back 06 Aug 2020
Automated Fortune Teller Machine – The First 05 Nov 2019
12 Week Learning Sprint 21 Jul 2019
Mastery And Spontaneity 19 Jul 2019
Some Thoughts On Skill Acquisition 16 Jul 2019
Book Notes: "Your Memory: How it Works and How to Improve It" 09 Jul 2019
Book Notes: "A Philosophy of Software Design" 13 May 2019
Fayuan? Fanuan? 21 May 2018
Hiking Wuliaojian (五寮尖) 20 May 2018
Ex-Beginners 16 May 2018
Hiking Bitoujiao (鼻頭角) 05 May 2018
Book Review: "现代汉语八百词 / 800 Words of Modern Standard Mandarin" 02 May 2018
Hiking Huangdi Dian (皇帝殿) 29 Apr 2018
React Native's SectionList and getItemLayout 26 Jun 2017
Reading Chinese At Different Levels Of Comprehension 16 Oct 2016
Some Recent Thoughts On Fluency 07 Jul 2016
Taking The Hsk 6 26 May 2016
Found In Translation 27 May 2015
Hoisting Julia Array Bounds Checks Out Of Loop Nests Using Polly 06 Feb 2015