Jekyll2026-05-26T18:35:41+00:00/feed.xmlYour awesome titleWrite an awesome description for your new site here. You can edit this line in _config.yml. It will appear in your document head meta (for Google search results) and in your feed.xml site description.Vim diff mode for code review2026-05-26T00:00:00+00:002026-05-26T00:00:00+00:00/blog/2026/05/26/vim-diffFirst time using vim diff mode to merge differnt versions of a file. Before that I need to connect VSCode to ssh everytime doing remotely.

Usage: vim -d file1 file2

Then you can use ]c and [c to jump between changes, and do and dp to merge changes from one side to another.

Easier than I thought.

Also, to enable mouse mode, add set mouse=a to your vimrc, then you can click to jump between changes as well.

ref: the reddit post i read

]]>Vibe coding helps with groceries too!2026-05-19T00:00:00+00:002026-05-19T00:00:00+00:00/blog/2026/05/19/walmart-poundsDid a little script to help comparing price better. (Doesn’t makes sense to me they’re not using pounds on web even when they use it in-store)

enjoy

#walmart #groceries Walmart Canada

greasyfork show pounds unit price walmart.ca

]]>the home assistant rabbit hole2026-03-26T00:00:00+00:002026-03-26T00:00:00+00:00/blog/2026/03/26/home-assistantAnother rabit hole - Home Assistant the midnight project

light_switch

Always wanted to automate my home, got a home pod, but sick of always shouting at Siri to get things done.

So I took the hassle to run home assistant over Wireguard on remote vm.

A few key takeaways

  • HomeKit requires both mdns and ssdp relay (mdns-repeater and udp-broadcast-relay-redux was used)
  • add routes on openwrt
  • Add these entries to wg peer allowed_ips ‘224.0.0.251/32’ ‘239.255.255.250/32’

And if course, using copilot speeds things up a lot!

refs:

originally posted on LinkedIn

#homekit #homeassistant #wireguard #openwrt

]]>fastStream the better html player in your browser2026-03-19T00:00:00+00:002026-03-19T00:00:00+00:00/blog/2026/03/19/faststreamExtension Appreciation: Andrew’s FastStream

Was looking into Apple’s “Liquid Glass showcase: Slack” case-study, but the video buffering was incredibly slow and no fast seek support.

This extension works as a in-place video player replacement. With it the stream went from a simple built-in video player to a full-featured player with multithreaded streaming, fast-seek with thumbnail, so on.

Supported for Firefox and Chrome

https://github.com/Andrews54757/FastStream

Originally on linkedin.

]]>lnav the terminal log viewer2026-01-26T00:00:00+00:002026-01-26T00:00:00+00:00/blog/2026/01/26/lnavIntroduce to you lnav, a log viewer in your terminal. I was looking for something to colourize million lines of log without needing to open vscode, and it came in handy.

If you are already familiar with less or k9s, you are good to go already.

A few useful keys: / - quick search n - next match p - previous match q - exit

https://github.com/tstack/lnav

Originally on linkedin.

]]>The rabbit hole into zsh completion2025-12-30T00:00:00+00:002025-12-30T00:00:00+00:00/blog/2025/12/30/gcloud-zshWith Mac, most of us install Oh My Zsh and Homebrew for efficient terminal management. However, it is notorious for slow startup.

Recently, I switched from Oh My Zsh to Prezto; seeing my shell ready in a second is deeply satisfying.

cont: Although prezto is much faster, there came with a cost. I would be seeing bugs omz would have normally smoothed out for us behind the scene.

This morning, just after I installed gcloud from brew, and find the completion not working, that dragged me down the rabbit hole.

Checked fpath (normal), checked manual sourcing (it’s working), but the completion is still not automatically picked up. AI told me to source manually, I know it would work, but it’s not elegant.

A brief search led me to this “unplanned” issue in cask, saying that because the gcloud definition doesn’t comply with zsh standard to include “hashtag#compdef gcloud …” in the header, and in brew’s convention it named the completion script to be the same as the package name “google-cloud-sdk” ( /opt/homebrew/share/zsh/site-functions/_google_cloud_sdk) instead of gcloud (the name that should triggers in terminal completion).

Adding that header line fixed the issue right away.

the issue: google-cloud-sdk zsh autocompletion doesn’t load automatically #143596

Google Cloud Google for Developers

Originally on Linkedin.

]]>Welcome to Jekyll!2022-02-10T04:49:50+00:002022-02-10T04:49:50+00:00/jekyll/update/2022/02/10/welcome-to-jekyllYou’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.

Jekyll requires blog post files to be named according to the following format:

YEAR-MONTH-DAY-title.MARKUP

Where YEAR is a four-digit number, MONTH and DAY are both two-digit numbers, and MARKUP is the file extension representing the format used in the file. After that, include the necessary front matter. Take a look at the source for this post to get an idea about how it works.

Jekyll also offers powerful support for code snippets:

def print_hi(name)
  puts "Hi, #{name}"
end
print_hi('Tom')
#=> prints 'Hi, Tom' to STDOUT.

Check out the Jekyll docs for more info on how to get the most out of Jekyll. File all bugs/feature requests at Jekyll’s GitHub repo. If you have questions, you can ask them on Jekyll Talk.

]]>Hello World!2022-02-10T00:00:00+00:002022-02-10T00:00:00+00:00/blog/2022/02/10/helloWorldThis is my first post. Below is an example passage.

A banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.

In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called “plantains”, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe.

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