Karsten's Blog

A fine place to stay

Finding a home on the Internet is difficult. The Internet is like the ocean, ever drifting forward. Every now and then I come across awesome platforms that I want to "move in" and bring all my old stuffs there. Unsurprisingly, this has scattered my stuffs everywhere. E-mails, blog accounts, password...

8 days ago Rants

So long, Android…?

Among my friends and family, I am known to be a die-hard Android fan. I've always been an Android person, only used my mother‘s iPhone 6s for a short period of time when I lost my Redmi Note 4X. I did not like apple devices for a few reasons, but...

10 days ago Rants

Survival Report 2025-10-23

Ever since I began working as Service Engineer, I couldn't free myself from duties to sit down and properly write a blog post about my new job. I always came home tired and (more importantly), I wanted to play games. Well, I am still awake at 12am now and not...

about 1 month ago Rants

Down the LLM rabbit hole

Vibe coding isn't new. A user describes their needs to an LLM, and then it generates the desired output, the user then checks for inconsistencies and error, then provide feedback. It's basically "asking your subordinates" to do the work for you, the difference is that your subordinate is now an...

2 months ago Rants

Got a new server at home

I have been in search of reliable, fast cloud storage providers for quite some time. At the time of writing, I have been using Koofr for a few years now. Koofr's stability or privacy-stance is good. But since it's based in EU, connection to it from Hong Kong is painfully...

2 months ago Rants

Hugo was fun while it lasted

Until I realize how inconvenient it is to deploy the site to edge (Vercel). “Context: This morning I discovered when I try to post anytime from 00:00 to 07:59 UTC+8, Hugo will not publish my new posts. It's weird because I always thought that the time follows my system time....

2 months ago Techs

Won an auction, 🚀 a sideblog, and other things

Things' been getting better for me recently. It seems like I will be getting a short term contract 🔜, for maybe 2-3 months. Can't complain, it's still a job. Then I won an auction. I saw this auction at bids.lol and I thought, why not? Half of my donation will...

3 months ago Rants

HelioHost

Today I learned about HelioHost offering free hosting to everyone. When I first began building my online identity, I struggled with steep prices (I still am), and free hosts were a godsend for me. Back then, I used 000webhost and a lot of other free hosts. All of which sucked,...

3 months ago TIL

Slash Pages

Discovered there are more pages dedicated to specific uses than just /about, /contact, or /now today. In fact, there are a dozen of them!I skimmed through the directory, figured I may want to add a few of them to the blog. Are they useful? Probably not, apart from a few...

3 months ago TIL

Enabled Tinylytics on the Blog

First things first, I am not a big fan of being tracked. I have such a huge disdain in unnecessary tracking, so much so that I actively try to de-google. So why did I enable analytics? Well, you see, I want visitors to have a way to give a "thumbs-up"...

3 months ago Rants