• CS graduate, ICT volunteer in Saint Vincent 🇻🇨 last year, now a backend engineer at a startup. There's also a 6-year-old little brother at home
• skating.tw, the Taiwan ice-skating guide I built in June, now ranks near the top of Google for many skating searches, with a few thousand visitors a week coming in from Google
• Built an online family tree with 360+ relatives on it so far; hoping to discover one day that some friend is actually a distant cousin
• My English used to be poor; since university I've been reading English docs and attending international conferences, and somehow just scored 910 on TOEIC (roughly top 5%)
• Sold my DJI Mini 4 Pro and switched to a Phantom 4 Pro, the go-to drone for licence exams; I'm going for the Taiwan CAA professional drone operator certificate and practising ATTI mode for the practical test (think manual transmission on a car)

• For the past two months I've been up at 5 every day, training in the pool 05:30 - 07:30 with the New Taipei Ching-Shuei Lifeguard Team
• Took the lifeguard course (4 weeks), a course covering all four swimming strokes (2 weeks) and the swim coach course (1 week) back to back
• I was the class treasurer and IT officer, and built tool pages like the class fee breakdown
• Shot aerial footage at river and ocean training and cut a promo documentary

• Someone used my URL shortener tg.pe for phishing links. I reported them and they got taken down
  • Someone used my URL shortener for phishing. The domain didn't last eight hours. (the one that got handled fast)
  • A fake parcel site, and the six buttons that run it (a look inside a scam back-end)
• Heading to Mumbai, India in early September for APNIC 62, an Internet policy meeting
• Then to Bali, Indonesia in October for ICANN 87, an Internet governance meeting
• Got a phishing email and reported the fake site in it while I was at it. It was down within half an hour, which is impressively fast

• June: a get-together at a friend's place that ran from dinner to sunrise. Exhausting but worth it (then I had to tell work I'd overslept and take the morning off)
• July: 5-day family trip to Taitung for the hot-air balloons and the Luanshan Forest Culture Museum, with me flying the drone to record it all
• August: 3-day company trip to Hualien (great food and SUP), plus a karaoke night with colleagues

• HITCON
  Hacks In Taiwan Conference
  • Conference badges could tap each other to swap contact cards; I went around swapping with everyone and came first
  • Made new friends and ended up having meals and playing rhythm games with them. Really enjoyed it
• COSCUP
  Open source conference
• CyCraft Con
  CyCraft's AI security conference
• dev meet
  Hacker meetup
• NetGov Affinity
  Youth Internet Governance Engagement Program
  • I'm on the organising team and we're deep in planning meetings. Fingers crossed
• The Reporter Live Podcast
  Dissecting the network of Taiwanese influencers pushing Beijing's united-front propaganda
  • Thanked The Reporter in person and realised the piece that got me hooked on them, The One Who Came Back From Hell That Night (on the sole surviving firefighter of the 2015 Xinwu bowling alley fire), is already ten years old
  • Also picked the brain of YouTuber shasha77 on a few things; his thinking is fast and clear, love it
• X-Salon
  Cross-disciplinary salon
• Global Taipei Forum
  From undersea cables to low-Earth-orbit satellites: defending Taiwan's communications security

• Hiking, climbing, badminton, swimming, any sport
• Skiing, archery, air-rifle shooting, skydiving, the more unusual the better 🏂
• Philosophy, psychology, social issues, political viewpoints
• Recommendations for classical, symphonic, or any kind of music 🎶
• Meals and chats, swapping life stories, exhibitions, and arts performances
• I've been reading through the platform of "your mayor" Puma Shen (Taipei mayoral candidate); it's so thorough it doesn't read like a candidate's. Happy to talk about it

The "Now page" idea comes from nownownow.com: unlike an About page that covers your past, a Now page records what I'm doing right now, refreshed every so often, with older issues kept as the monthly archive below.

These notes are a quick cheat sheet so you can see what I'm into in the first three minutes of meeting me.

You can also browse what other friends are doing: Elvis Mao, OsGa, Jaron, Wiwi Kuan, Taiwan now list

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Last updated: 2026-09-04, translated by LLM from Mandarin version