[{"content":"The romanization system used in this article is Jyutping.\nInitials Standard Cantonese has 20 phonemic initial consonants. Although many people do mix up several pairs like /n/ and /l/, /ŋ/ and /ʔ/ ~ ∅.\nLabial Dental/Alveolar Palatal Velar Labiovelar Glottal Unaspirated Plosive b /p/ d /t/ g /k/ gw /kʷ/ ∅ /ʔ/ ~ ∅ Aspirated Plosive p /pʰ/ t /tʰ/ k /kʰ/ kw /kʰʷ/ Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ng /ŋ/ Unaspirated Affricate z /ts/ ~ /tʃ/ Aspirated Affricate c /tsʰ/ ~ /tʃʰ/ Fricative f /f/ s /s/ ~ /ʃ/ h /h/ Lateral l /l/ j /j/ w /w/ Alveolar and postalveolar affricates seems to be either allophones or free variation. Some people pronounce /ts/, /tsʰ/, /s/ before unrounded vowels, and /tʃ/, /tʃʰ/, /ʃ/ before rounded vowels, while some people only pronounce the alveolar variant in all positions. Linguistic materials suggest that these two sets of initial consonants are actually distinguished in pre-1950s Cantonese, however. See my other post “A Brief Discussion on Several Chinese Dialectal Phenomena” for further information.\nRhymes There are usually considered 8 main vowel phonemes in standard Cantonese, although there are about 11 realizations of these phonemes. Items marked with an asterisk * are rare rhymes.\naː ɐ ɛː iː ɔː œː uː yː ∅ -∅ aa /aː/ a* /ɐ/ e /ɛː/ i /iː/ o /ɔː/ oe /œː/ u /uː/ yu /yː/ -i aai /aːi/ ai /ɐi/ ei /ei/ oi /ɔːi/ eoi /ɵy/ ui /uːi/ -u aau /aːu/ au /ɐu/ eu /ɛːu/ iu /iːu/ ou /ou/ -m aam /aːm/ am /ɐm/ em /ɛːm/ im /iːm/ om* /om/ m /m̩/ -p aap /aːp/ ap /ɐp/ ep /ɛːp/ ip /iːp/ op* /op/ -n aan /aːn/ an /ɐn/ en* /ɛːn/ in /iːn/ on /ɔːn/ eon /ɵn/ un /uːn/ yun /yːn/ -t aat /aːt/ at /ɐt/ et* /ɛːt/ it /iːt/ ot /ɔːt/ eot /ɵt/ ut /uːt/ yut /yːt/ -ŋ aang /aːŋ/ ang /ɐŋ/ eng /ɛːŋ/ ing /ɪŋ/ ong /ɔːŋ/ oeng /œːŋ/ ung /ʊŋ/ ng /ŋ̩/ -k aak /aːk/ ak /ɐk/ ek /ɛːk/ ik /ɪk/ ok /ɔːk/ oek /œːk/ uk /ʊk/ Older Cantonese also has /om/ and /op/, though they are usually merged into /ɐm/ and /ɐp/ today.\n/aː/, /ɐ/, /ɛː/ and /iː/ are considered as unrounded vowels, while /ɔː/, /œː/, /uː/ and /yː/ are considered as rounded vowels. The roundness of the vowel may determine whether the /ts/, /tsʰ/, /s/ or /tʃ/, /tʃʰ/, /ʃ/ set of initial is used.\nAll stop codas (i.e. -p, -t and -k) are unreleased, unlike most European languages.\nTones Tone number Traditional name Description Value IPA 1/7 陰平／短陰入 high level/high falling 55/53 ˥˥/˥˧ 2 陰上 medium rising 35 ˧˥ 3/8 陰去／長陰入 medium level 33 ˧˧ 4 陽平 low falling/very low level 11/21 ˩˩/˨˩ 5 陽上 low rising 23 ˨˧ 6/9 陽去／陽入 low level 22 ˨˨ 短陰入 and 長陰入 are also referred as 高陰入 and 低陰入 respectively.\n💡 Fun fact Cantonese is one of the handful Chinese variant that preserves the 陽上 tone. Most modern Chinese variant just merge it in 陽去 or 陰上.\n","date":"2026-04-24T11:38:10Z","permalink":"/blog/introduction-to-cantonese-phonology/","title":"Introduction to Cantonese Phonology"},{"content":" ⚠️ Notice This post is a draft translation from the Chinese version which have not yet been thoroughly proofread.\nAfter reading about Alex Hsu’s post “Your RSS posts might only live half as long as everyone else’s” today, I immediately checked the information in my RSS feed, and found out that the \u0026lt;pubDate\u0026gt; field inside the RSS feed takes the date field instead of the lastmod field, specified inside the post’s frontmatter. The publishing time I expect to be displayed in RSS feed should be the latter.\nMy current publishing process This site is currently built using Hugo and GitHub Pages. When I write a new article, I will look at the current time just before saving the file, then manually fill in the time into the date field of the frontmatter, and then push it to GitHub as soon as possible. When I update old articles, I don’t edit the date field but lastmod instead. Little did I know, that such an update method would actually screw myself up.\nStart working on it To modify the publish date inside the RSS feed, we can start with the file layouts/rss.xml (at least this is the file for the theme I am using now). There is a line in this file that looks like this:\n\u0026lt;pubDate\u0026gt;{{ .PublishDate.Format \u0026#34;Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700\u0026#34; | safeHTML }}\u0026lt;/pubDate\u0026gt; Where .PublishDate represents the date field of the frontmatter, and lastmod is .Lastmod. Just replace this value and it should be done.\nI don’t know if it is possible to automatically fill in and change the publish date based on my current publishing process. If possible, I might try it when I have time in the future.\n📌 Update on 2026/04/24 Found this Hugo option to fetch dates from Git. Not sure if it’s useful for me or not.\n","date":"2026-04-12T20:30:00Z","permalink":"/blog/rss-publish-date-adjustment/","title":"RSS Publish Date Adjustment"},{"content":" ⚠️ Notice This post is a draft translation from the Chinese version which have not yet been thoroughly proofread.\nFinally get a self-hosted blog (somewhat) set up online, but still struggling to get everything working.\nSince I\u0026rsquo;m not quite familiar with the framework, there may be a lot of bugs around the site. So feel free for providing technical supports by contacting me or issue PRs directly on the GitHub repo! Thank you for the support from all the readers!\n📌 Update on 2026/03/14 After playing around with various settings, most of the visible UI issues have finally been resolved! Though taking longer than I initially expected. However, I still don’t figure out why the “reading time” isn’t displaying at all.\n📌 Update on 2026/04/13 Major UI revamp. The not-displaying “reading time” issue has been resolved.\n📌 Update on 2026/04/23 Change the colour scheme on the entire site.\n","date":"2026-03-03T16:51:10Z","permalink":"/blog/blog-maintenance/","title":"Blog Maintenance"},{"content":" ⚠️ Notice This post is a draft translation from the Chinese version which have not yet been thoroughly proofread.\nWell, this is a follow-up post. The original version of the question set used in this post comes from Kev Quirk, an incomplete list of traditional Chinese blogs that have recently followed suit includes: 廢文小天地、Hong-Sheng Huang、JN、侃侃而隨想極短文、Ikuka、Shuyu、Wiwi、Alex Hsu、Shuo-Jen Huang。\nQuestion list Why did you start blogging in the first place? What platform are you using to manage your blog and why did you choose it? Have you blogged on other platforms before? How do you write your posts? For example, in a local editing tool, or in a panel/dashboard that’s part of your blog? When do you feel most inspired to write? Do you publish immediately after writing, or do you let it simmer a bit as a draft? What’s your favourite post on your blog? Any future plans for your blog? Maybe a redesign, a move to another platform, or adding a new feature? My answers Why did you start blogging in the first place? Mainly for storing some notes and also to check out BlogBlog Club? I haven’t finished organizing all my notes yet.\nWhat platform are you using to manage your blog and why did you choose it? Currently, the only “platform” I’m using is GitHub Pages, and the website interface itself is generated using Hugo. Perhaps I’ll consider renting a VPS sometime when I wish to set up a message board. Perhaps I’ll migrate the entire website to another hosting platform sometime in the future.\nHave you blogged on other platforms before? I dabbled in Blogger a long time ago, but I didn’t have as much free time to write blogs back then, so I quickly abandoned it.\nHow do you write your posts? All markdown files are edited directly using a local text editor.\nThis blog website has English and Cantonese versions, but since I rarely promote this website in circles where people don’t understand Chinese, most of the English content on this site has been roughly translated using machine translation tools, and I’ll proofread it more carefully later when I have time.\nWhen do you feel most inspired to write? It’s hard to say, there’s no fixed time.\nDo you publish immediately after writing, or do you let it simmer a bit as a draft? Both. Sometimes, when an idea strikes, I immediately write the whole thing and publish it right away. Other times, if I only have a small part of an idea, I might save it as a draft, or I might publish it first and then revise it later. Those articles for BlogBlog Club, which require more effort, are also written in parts. I don’t think I’ll have the willpower to maintain daily updates in the short term, so there’s no point in hoarding posts.\nWhat’s your favourite post on your blog? The number of posts on this site is not very large at the moment, so it’s hard to say.\nAny future plans for your blog? When the website has enough traffic, I might consider setting up a message board? Perhaps I’ll consider moving the entire website to its own domain? ","date":"2026-04-22T10:31:20Z","permalink":"/blog/blog-questions-challenge/","title":"Blog Questions Challenge"},{"content":" ⚠️ Notice This post is a draft translation from the Chinese version which have not yet been thoroughly proofread.\nIt’s said that in foreign countries (especially the Western world, and particularly in older elevators), elevator doors don’t always provide a “close” button.\nIt’s also said that in some places, the “close” button on elevator doors is just a placebo.\nHowever, in Hong Kong, from what I’ve seen, the “close” button on most elevator doors actually works.\nFrom an engineering perspective, adding a “close” button complicates the entire elevator’s design, so sometimes it’s better to not provide one.\nFrom a cultural perspective, perhaps foreign cultures simply don’t care about making the elevator doors close quicker, they’ll close automatically when the time comes, why are you even rushing!\nI have an elevator I use frequently, and its close button seems to be a placebo. As soon as someone enters and presses the floor button, the door starts closing by itself.\n","date":"2026-04-15T17:32:55Z","permalink":"/blog/placebo-button/","title":"Elevator’s Placebo Button"},{"content":" ⚠️ Notice This post is a draft translation from the Chinese version which have not yet been thoroughly proofread.\n💡 BlogBlog Club! This is my submission article for “BlogBlog Club Party - April 2026”. This month’s topic is “Productivity”, hosted by Wen. If you have your own blog, feel free to join us together!\nIncomplete information game: Prisoner’s dilemma and Nash equilibrium Many games in this world involve incomplete information, meaning that each party involved has hidden information that is unknown to the other parties.\n舉個例子，警局和兩名疑犯做認罪協商，如果兩名疑犯都不認罪（共同合作），則二人同樣判監半年；如果其中一名疑犯認罪 (“defects”) 而另一名疑犯保持沉默 (“cooperates”) 的話，認罪的一方將即時獲釋，沉默者將判監十年；如果兩名疑犯一同認罪（互相背叛），則二人同樣判監五年。而兩名疑犯之間並不能互相交流。\nB cooperates B defects A cooperates -0.5, -0.5 -10, 0 A defects 0, -10 -5, -5 This is called the prisoner’s dilemma. You’ll find that when neither side can trust the other, the optimal strategy for both, considering only their own interests, is to defect! However, mutual betrayal doesn’t bring better overall benefit to either side (it only maximizes the individual interests of each suspect), creating a lose-lose situation of “better to die than live in dishonour.” When neither side has any incentive to unilaterally change their choice, a Nash equilibrium is formed.\nIt can be said that many consequences of incomplete information games actually reduce the overall productivity of the entire world.1\n(If the benefits of cooperation outweigh the losses from betrayal, it’s not called the prisoner’s dilemma but a stag hunt. In a stag hunt, both “cooperation” and “betrayal” are Nash equilibria.)\nTwilight of the gods: A lose-lose situation Facing the never-seen change of lavatories, there’s no perfect ready-made product in every way. You can only pick the least smelly one from all kinds of shit, and try to make it into a way that you can accept.\nAdvertising dilemma Applying the prisoner’s dilemma to the business world, it can be interpreted as follows: Each company has two choices: one is to invest more resources in advertising to weaken or defeat competitors (mutual betrayal); the other is to reach an agreement with competitors to reduce wasted resources on advertising (cooperation). In the real business environment, mutual betrayal is extremely common, resulting in a large amount of resources and network traffic being wasted on advertising, while the vast majority of consumers don’t even glance at it.\nIn this game, the ultimate victims are the end users. Overly aggressive advertising has forced them to activate ad blockers. With Google’s declaration of war on ad blockers, a new dilemma is quietly unfolding. Some websites and services (which may have some value) have to rely on advertising to survive or they will starve, but advertising services rely on various privacy-violating trackers, scaring away privacy-conscious users. However, this user loss indirectly threatens the platform’s finances, creating a dilemma.\nBrowser wars Let’s first take a look at the browsers you’re using. What are the advantages and disadvantages of common browsers?\nIt’s not the first day that Google Chrome has been criticized as spyware and adware. Microsoft Edge’s interface is relatively annoying, and has also been criticized as spyware and adware. Firefox’s backgrounds appear more free, and its interface is cleaner, but due to its market share, some websites may not be as Firefox-friendly. Besides, Pront and (past2) Wiwi accuse it of being a spyware, and the Android version of Firefox is reportedly not very handful. According to Lumière Élevé, one of the co-founders of Lightingale Community, Brave should receive the same treatment as browsers that “threaten user security” (to be blocked in LTGC’s services), and says that “No one’s going to cry over a crypto bro’s scheme anyway, it’s even using the Chromium kernel controlled by Google.”, “I don’t care if it’s held at gun point or not”. Safari is exclusive to Apple platforms, and it used some unsavory methods to forcibly maintain its market share. LibreWolf is quite suitable for privacy enthusiasts, but it’s not worth to be considerated for loading pages that require hardware acceleration. Cromite is probably the most privacy-conscious browser in the Chromium-family, and it doesn’t have any shit from the cryptocurrency communities, but it still has some of the original sins of the Chromium-family3. From above, there’s no perfect ready-made product in every way. You can only pick the least smelly one from all kinds of shit, and try to make it into a way that you can accept.\nRagnarok of instant messaging softwares Instant messaging softwares are also a pile of shit, you can only choose from different kinds of shit.\nDiscord 商業味太濃，而且還在為年齡驗證的事炎上着呢。 Telegram 現在收費功能越搞越多了，「永遠免費」已成絕響。而且 Telegram 的聲音傳輸質量比 Discord 差。 Matrix 的穩定性（特別是基於 Synapse 的 homeserver）似乎還不夠好。 Stoat 目標是替代 Discord ，雖然打着「反對歧視」的標語，但似乎對來自一些國家的人有地域歧視，一竹篙打一船人。 Fluxer 也是 Discord 的一個替代品，但它把 Discord 的氪金手段也學得別無二致，甚至有過之而無不及。 SimpleX 能用並且保密性還是頂尖的，但跨裝置登錄就不用想了。 Signal 雖然加密本身沒有什麼挑剔，但除了加密以外的地方問題就多了，除了私密訊息的通知推送包含消息明文外，背後的團隊也對反審查毫無概念，至今仍向受審查地區的用戶推薦他們有嚴重問題的 TLS 代理，將用戶置身於危險之中。 Whatsapp 會把你的資料源源不斷地餵給 Meta，商業味太濃。 Powered by love 能夠單靠參與自由軟體專案來維持生活當然很理想，但現實是能夠單單靠開發自由軟體來維持生計的人並不是太多。\n現實當中 FOSS 往往靠以下方式來維生：\n售賣對應的周邊服務（例如 Caddy、cURL、SQLite3 售賣技術支援、以及某吃相糟糕的打譜軟體） 將軟體雙授權，開源軟體可以以開放原始碼協定免費使用依賴，閉源軟體必須購買付費授權（如 Qt、JUCE） 獲取專項撥款（如從 NLnet、FOSS.United 等獲取撥款，例如 Rethink） 售賣預構建二進位檔案（如 Ardour） 獲取政府合同（Tuwunnel 從瑞士政府獲取資助合同）或公司合同（Valve 以公司合同資助一些 KDE 開發者） 吃抖內（就是純粹的用愛發電，需要足夠有人氣） 鑽授權協定漏洞，直接售賣授權（RHEL） 這些生存手段往往對自由軟體起動時的成功率不高，結果就是自由軟體往往淪為不會被投放充足勞動力的副業，造成現在自由軟體市場質素參差、良莠不齊。\nThe stagnant free software market “What’s the use of free software if it can’t even get anything done?” — Anonymous\nThe consequence of games is that many necessary software and services often fail to meet (all) ideal conditions, even though there are actually quite a few readily available options.\nWiwi once compiled a guide to real tech nerds. 我是覺得他裏面的不少看法（至少在 2026 年當下）實在是有點太激進，一些項目實際上並不太現實。預算不足的情況下甚至會構成對生產力的負累。\n你以為全世界所有人都能力自架離線 AI？我的話瓶頸不在技術力，而是在某些天龍人意想不到的方面，請見下文。 「對廣告的態度」是個兩難，上面已經闡述了。 避免訂閱服務（或曰「租用」）聽起來很理想很崇高，但在當今這個諸神黃昏的時代，能用的買斷制軟體又有多少？ 個人使用當然可以避免專有格式，但當你為了維持生計而不得不出來工作的時候，這些專有格式，你以為你能完全避免？ 當自由軟體市場還是一潭死水的狀況下，市場需求會更加傾向 Windows 和 macOS 這些主流作業系統，開發 Linux 軟體在商業角度上並不討好。Wine 不是萬能的。 自架郵件伺服器你以為這麼容易？實際上在很多年前就已經被大量的 spam mail 玩成了信任死鎖，自架郵件服務很難發信的。 即時通訊軟體是諸神黃昏，上文已述。 不過我目前還是經濟拮据。你現在所看到的這個部落格，就連自有網域都還沒有4，更何談各種極其燒錢的自架服務了。\nThe impact of artificial intelligence on productivity 在人工智能能快速完成人類以往需要花更多時間和心力才能完成的工作的背景下，可以說人工智能（在某些領域的）生產力已經超越了人類。在這些被 AI 主導的領域當中，只有最頂尖的人類才能存活，生產力追不上 AI 的人就會被社會淘汰。\n小時候有點憧憬當軟體工程師，但是現在 vibe coding 大行其道的時代下，單純當個軟體工程師在商業角度上已經不那麼討好了。 小時候有點憧憬當同人繪師，結果 AI 現在都能畫得比人手快且品質不錯了。 靜態的翻譯行為，就算不夠準確也被「夠用就行」踢下去了，只剩更傷腦筋的即時傳譯還有需求，或者可以考慮轉行當「低資源語言」（如各種漢語「方言」）的翻譯。 不過運行人工智能很吃電力，在當今全球能源危機的形勢下，人工智能的發展趨勢會否被迫放緩？\nHow can artificial intelligence be used to improve productivity? 在人工智能時代下，我們應該怎樣有效運用人工智能來提升自身的生產力，以免被社會淘汰？\n我們不應該完全抗拒 vibe coding，但也不應完全依賴它，不應對 AI 生成的代碼囫圇吞棗。天知道哪天會出現智能叛變？ 當藝術工作者的要麼想辦法變成最頂尖的人類，要麼可以先用 AI 打草稿再想辦法精修。 試着強化人與人的連結吧，有些行業會比較強調與人類之間的交流，應該會沒那麼容易被 AI 取代。 For the sake of convenience, we will not take the difference between a single-episode prisoner’s dilemma and a multiple-episode one into account for now.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nWhile writing this article, I checked Wiwi’s website and found that he had quietly removed the description of “Firefox is a spyware”.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nFor example some Chromium-only APIs, the issue of whether to take down Manifest V3, and that secretly connection to Google’s server when you query DNS.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nThe mailbox listed on the home page for receiving emails only is not actually completely owned by me, it just belongs to a group that I helped to establish.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n","date":"2026-04-14T17:50:30Z","permalink":"/blog/productivity/","title":"Productivity: Prisoner’s Dilemma, Nash Equilibrium and Twilight of the Gods"},{"content":" 🚨 Caution This article about discussion on a certain Chinese IME and is not translated in to English yet (and probably never), please refer to the Chinese version instead.\n📌 持續更新！ 本頁面是我想到啥就寫啥的，一次可能只會寫一小部份，敬請留意本頁面的持續更新！\n我知道許多輸入法的運作原理，但能流利使用的並不多，嘸蝦米是其中之一（但目前已非本人主力）。在本人深入的研究之下，發現了這款輸入法（至少從其官方材料為出發點）的一些不完備之處。\n字根與鍵位 有許多實際上會用到的字根，在官方字根表中未有列出。有些民間資料會補回這部份字根。 「戶」1、「酉」、「臼」、「卜」等字官方文件聲稱其鍵位乃從發音而來，但我並未找到其所依據的發音為何。不過其他的音碼其實也沒有很明確的取碼標準就是了。 「喪」字都有「捨大根而不用」的嫌疑（「土口口𧘇」\u0026gt;「十口口𧘇」？），且不一定有符合大根原則的「容錯碼」。至於「囧」不取「四」而取作「囗儿ㄇ」或「囗八ㄇ」，我們可以定義「四」內部不可容物來解釋。 拆字 「主」字，我從來沒有搞懂為什麼它拆的是「丶王」而不是「亠土」。（五筆同樣也拆作「丶王」，倉頡和行列就都是拆作「亠土」。嘸蝦米和五筆都有齊「丶亠土王」四個字根，為何不是遵守大字根先取的原則？） 嘸蝦米有「亼」字根，但「余舍」卻不用「亼」這個較大的字根而是拆作「人」。「余」有一個將首碼取作「亼」的容錯碼，「舍」則不設將首碼取作「亼」的容錯碼。更甚的是，官方並未有列出一個「余減掉人」的字根，而是用「禾」權充，而且補碼要取作捺而非點（不然的話會變成次選的容錯碼）。以上現象全部都可以類推到包含這些部件的字上。 兩碼字 「輿」有一個兩碼打法「CB」。此字一般習慣先寫「𦥑（臼）」再寫「車」，拆作「GCEB」，官方碼表亦將「GCEB」列為標準拆法，而「CGEB」為容錯碼。其兩碼打法「CB」列作「首尾碼」不妥。 「辭」字完整拆碼為「ETNL」，亦不存在「辭」字的簡速字根，官方將兩碼打法「EJ」列作首尾碼疑有誤。 「瓜」字最後一筆似應為捺而非點，官方碼表將兩碼打法「GA」列作標準取碼不妥。（但是「GN」又跟「夾」重碼了，所以「GA」也許可以作為硬性編碼留着。） 其他帶有「瓜」部件的字如「孤狐」都有類似問題，補碼作 N 的容錯碼被放到了次選位置。 「干」字按標準取碼，只能拆作「GJ」，沒有 V（附加 V 不是標準取碼，只應算作附加規則），官方將兩碼打法「GV」列作（標準取碼的）首尾碼不妥。 「艦」字的兩碼打法「GF」，官方列作「發音＋尾碼」，但其發音不脗合。 「或」字尾筆應為右上角的點，非橫，官方列作簡速字根的規則取碼不妥。「武」字也有類似的問題，取作 WE 而不是 WA。以上字符均不設末筆作點的「容錯碼」。 實際上所有帶有「弋」或「戈」部件的字都是如此。官方有提到這樣的一條規則：「凡是帶有『弋』或『戈』部件的字（包括這兩個字本身），一律先取右上角的點，然後取『𫠠』或『𭠍』，最後取位於這個部件左下方的部份。」但考慮到補碼取用的模糊性，也許也應該加上這樣的一條附加規則：「凡是帶有『弋』或『戈』部件的字（包括這兩個字本身）要取補碼時，一律先考慮位於左下方的部件，然後才考慮從『𫠠』或『𭠍』取補碼」。這麼一來所有帶「弋」或「戈」的字就都能完整地解釋了。 有四個字，存在兩種兩碼字的打法：力 DX DY、門 MI MY、牙 XP YP、乙 ZL ZZ。其官方文檔又說，同一個字佔用兩個兩碼碼位（加 V 的不算）是浪費編碼空間，並以此為據將部份早期版本的兩碼字改掉（儘管更改兩碼字的「常用度」標準可能有主觀之嫌），但又不知為何留了四個「浪費編碼空間」的兩碼字下來。 其他 部份字符繁簡體模式分配欠妥。我有輸入粵語字的需求，例如「瞓」（睡覺的意思）、「劏」等字，明明字形上是繁體，嘸蝦米卻規定這個字符必須要切換至簡體模式才能打出。 「戶」字，在現代標準漢語及閩南語均以「h」聲母開頭、標準粵語以「w」聲母開頭，反倒是好些其他的南方漢語（從某些粵語或客家話方言、到四川湖北湖南的方言都有）確實是唸作「f」開頭的。\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n","date":"2026-04-09T20:06:30Z","permalink":"/blog/boshiamy-unclearness/","title":"Boshiamy’s Unclearness"},{"content":" 🚨 Caution This article about discussion on the Chinese language itself and is not translated in to English yet (and probably never), please refer to the Chinese version instead.\n以下談談幾個奇怪的漢語方言1現象。\nㄣㄥ（en in \u0026amp; eng ing）不分 Wiwi 在他的文章「三個怪癖」 中提到他說話時有ㄣㄥ不分的現象。據說這是台灣人的普遍現象2，而且其實不只台灣是這樣，就連大陸某些地方（主要在南方）的人都存在。為了解決打字方面的困擾，大陸的好些輸入法甚至有「模糊音」的設計，無論輸入哪一種（用戶覺得不能分的）組合都能出字。\n耐人尋味的是，閩南語有個類似ㄧㄥ的韻母（白話字 eng，臺羅 ing），傳統上應該要唸作 [i̯əŋ]，跟ㄧㄣ有明顯不同。在北方漢語中，ㄧㄥ韻母往往被唸成 [i̯əŋ] 甚至 [i̯ə̃]，而ㄧㄣ就是 [in]。反倒是一些別的南方漢語的確存在上述ㄣㄥ不分的特徵。\n閩南語真的是保留入聲的語言嗎？ 好些閩南沙文主義狂熱份子自詡閩南語是「保留入聲」的古漢語。但據我一個粵語母語者的個人觀察，台灣的閩南語使用者實際上普遍存在入聲脫落的現象，許多字典中標明是入聲的字已經被發音得與開韻尾無異，除非下一個字以零聲母開頭形成聯誦。不過少數字正腔圓的人倒是真的有好好把入聲韻尾給唸出來。語言隨着時間推移而出現自然變化是一件很正常的事情，但是不應該將某些正在變化（且瀕臨消失）的特徵誇大作某語言存古的證據。\n想節能，輪胎能 很多年前有一個廣告當中有句對白「想節能，輪胎能」，因為代言人古天樂普通話太差而被空耳成奇奇怪怪的東西。不過耐人尋味的是，普通話和標準粵語中，「輪」跟「能」都是不同音的，反倒是一些鄉下地方的粵語方言無法區分。古天樂在說粵語的時候應該也是能分的~~（要不然早就被聽出口音來了）~~。順帶一提，「出」和「七」的歸併與上述的歸併其實是平行的，於是「出街瞓」也就變成了「七街瞓」。\n粵語的平翹音 不知道有沒有人深入探究過這個疑問。話說 100 年前的廣州話是有分平翹音的（儘管所謂的翹舌音，捲舌幅度遠少於北方漢語，若干字歸類與現代標準漢語3不同），而現在的標準粵語則不再區分。許多文獻寫「現在統統讀成平舌」，我是很懷疑的。根據我自己的個人語感、以及對身邊人發音的觀察，大多數香港人（沒注意大陸的）的粵語發音當中實際上是有兩套塞擦音的，但不再構成音位對立，形成同位異音（allophone，少數人是自由變體 free variation），在「圓唇元音」（粵拼 o, oe, eo, u, yu）前讀作 [tʃ tʃʰ ʃ]，而在「非圓唇元音」（粵拼 aa, a, e, i）前讀作 [ts tsʰ s]。4假如不遵守上述法則，雖然不會影響理解，但可能會被認為口音與一般香港人有異。\n在純粹的語言學上，「語言」和「方言」的區分原則很簡單：能互相聽懂的就是「方言」；不能互相聽懂的就是「語言」。有時候「語言」和「方言」之間的界限不總是很清晰。在我的部落格中，我未必會嚴格區分「語言」和「方言」的用法，單純看哪個比較順口就用哪個。\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n話說我本來是想寫「通病」的，後來想了想還是放棄了，免得我被罵歧視台灣人。\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n「現代標準漢語」是個學術名詞，常見的稱呼有「普通話」、「國語」和「華語」等，但很遺憾地這種語言並不存在一種獲得普遍使用、無歧義、而且能夠使某些政治狂熱份子滿意的稱呼，不管我怎樣稱呼都總會有人不滿意。\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n有趣的是，包括本人在內的許多人，s 在 oe、eo 甚至 yu 前面都是讀作 [s] 的。\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n","date":"2026-03-14T13:48:30Z","permalink":"/blog/chinese-dialectal-phenomena/","title":"A Brief Discussion on Several Chinese Dialectal Phenomena"},{"content":" ⚠️ Notice This post is a draft translation from the Chinese version which have not yet been thoroughly proofread.\n💡 Let’s brainstorm! Do any of you readers have suggestions for additions? Feel free to submit them via email or private messages!\nCutting in line Urinating or defecating in public This is actually an extremely ancient method of marking territory, and similar behaviors have been found in different species, with a history far exceeding five thousand years. See also “The entire world belongs to China”. Watching TikTok/RedNote loudly in public The louder the better to get attention and appreciate the wonders of Chinese culture! Forcing others to speak Mandarin in a foreign country Chinese people like to force others to speak Mandarin when they are in a foreign country, even if the other person does not look Chinese at all. When you make games or write comics, if you don’t release Chinese translations, you’re not taking Chinese players into consideration. Randomly being ruhua’ed As the old saying goes: There are three things everyone will inevitably experience in life: birth, death, and ruhua. Promotion of nucleic acid tests The entire world belongs to China China cannot lose an inch of its territory! ","date":"2026-04-01T10:30:51Z","permalink":"/blog/promote-chinese-culture/","title":"Promote Chinese Culture"},{"content":" ⚠️ Notice This post is a draft translation from the Chinese version which have not yet been thoroughly proofread.\n💡 BlogBlog Club! This is my submission article for “BlogBlog Club Party - March 2026”. This month’s topic is “Perfect Days”, hosted by Alex Hsu. If you have your own blog, feel free to join us together!\nIdeal itinerary I have mentioned before in another blog post that my biological clock is in an extremely delicate state , which makes it extremely difficult for me to seek “normal” (socially conventional) jobs. I myself have tried to forcefully stick myself to the 10-6 work pattern for several months, but my sleep condition is still very erratic and not always in that suitable-for-work state. But I don’t like going out too late at night (it doesn’t feel too safe). Looks like I can only look for some freelancer jobs? However, given the current economic environment in Hong Kong, jobs of this property are no longer easy to find, and it is difficult to make a living with such a job for a long time (this has been confirmed by a friend who have long used freelance jobs as their main source of income). Of course it would be best if I could turn my biological clock back to normal, but what should I do? Do I have to intervene it by medical means? I have never been a person who like exercise, I can even say that I hate exercise a bit. Maybe it’s because that my physical condition is too poor. It is said that such an idea goes against social norms and I don’t know if it needs to be corrected. Of course it would be best if other people in society are willing to accept my ideas. Time What to do 11:00-12:00 Get up, have brunch 12:00-13:00 Read books (although I don’t have many physical books), create, study various knowledge that I am interested in, and start going to work (if there is one) 13:00-18:00 Dating or group activities, or staying at home to play video games, programming, or hanging out on mainstream platforms (although the so-called mainstream platforms are almost only left with YouTube, although friends around me occasionally send me things on Instagram or Threads), arrive at the workplace and start working (if there is one) 18:00-19:00 Finish work and start going home (if there is one) 19:00-21:00 Take a shower, have dinner 21:00-02:00 Continue to delve into hobbies, programming or playing video games 02:00-11:00 Go to bed Ideal social relationships My social relationships have always been a mess. Maybe I should find some group activities to enrich myself. But given that I hate exercise, the types of activities I can find are relatively limited. Moreover, my trust in strangers is quite low, I am afraid of encountering scammers when I go out to find suitable group activities by myself, so I will basically only take the initiative to participate such activities through introductions from my only existing personal network. Also I can’t burn too much money until I can find a stable job.\nBut I also don’t like to participate in group activities with too many people, otherwise I can easily become a light bulb. Being with two or three people is the most comfortable state for me.\nAn ideal social system I people friendly: Although I have always longed to leave Hong Kong and live abroad, due to economic factors, it is not feasible in the foreseeable future. But I don’t know why I always feel that the way western society operates is not very I people friendly. Living in western countries means that there are more situations that require me to communicate with others face to face, and this is exactly what I am not very good at. I don’t know of any place suitable for me to venture into. Ideal working environment: I am the kind of person who is not very adaptable to a lifestyle where one day only consists of going to work, getting off work, and resting, and the life is occupied by a lot of boring work, and not paying much attention to work-life balance, so I may not be able to cope with a full-time job? In addition, my preferred working style is that if I see something whose current implementation is suboptimal, and I can come up with some constructive suggestions, I would expect that I can actively express my opinion on it, even if it is something outside the scope of my work. Ideal work efficiency: In an ideal society, all services should have good and complete customer service. Unfortunately, I don’t have much patience, so I easily fall into the state of “discipline yourself with leniency and treat others with severity”. I have had to contact customer service several times, but the customer service was very inefficient and unable to handle the problem. In the end, not only was the problem not handled well, it also made me feel very bad. Ideal = Unrealistic? Halfway through writing, I noticed that Noa and Wiwi mentioned that in the Ministry of Education Mandarin Chinese dictionary, the opposite word for “ideal” is “realistic”. As the saying goes, “Ideals are full, reality is skinny”. Whatever you gain, you must lose. It seems that maybe my ideal is too difficult to become real.\nConclusion Due to the rush of work, the content of the article is not quite well organized. I may update this article in the same place in the future.\nI actually have some more radical ideas about an ideal world and an ideal social system, but I won’t talk about them publicly here, lest this blog won’t exist anymore one day.\n","date":"2026-03-26T10:49:18Z","permalink":"/blog/perfect-days/","title":"Perfect Days"},{"content":" ⚠️ Notice This post is a draft translation from the Chinese version which have not yet been thoroughly proofread.\nSome people believe that Chinese calligraphy (hereinafter referred to as calligraphy) should be included in the compulsory education system, just like in Japan. Currently in Hong Kong, the Education Bureau has not made any regulations regarding calligraphy education, and most schools treat it as an extracurricular activity rather than part of the unified curriculum. Does this situation seem to be similar in other parts of Greater China?\nMy personal opinion It’s true that fewer and fewer people are using pens these days. Many modern people, when asked to pick up a pen, easily forget how to write characters or have illegible handwriting. However, modern people rarely receive systematic guidance on “proper penmanship” in compulsory education, so many are forced to just get by. Consider the ancient imperial examination system: the standards for “proper handwriting” were extremely high (although literacy rates were low then), and illegible handwriting was immediately considered a disqualification. However, from another perspective, modern people really rarely need to use a calligraphy brush frequently. After all, writing in an extremely physically demanding and unergonomic way for extended periods can lead to negative impacts to health (perhaps I’m saying this because I ended up failing to learn the correct way to write with a calligraphy brush?).\nTherefore, my view is that it’s necessary to strengthen education in pen calligraphy, but not necessarily brush calligraphy.\nPersonal experience My experience in the Hong Kong education system was somewhat irrational, but I don’t know if it qualifies as “strange” (because perhaps my situation is actually the norm, just a distorted norm). Although there was no calligraphy lessons in primary school (and I never attended extra calligraphy classes), something a bit strange was that every now and then everyone would be asked to write something and hand it in, and most of the time I just did a perfunctory job. By secondary school, I had basically never touched a brush pen again, only having some experience with Chinese painting in visual art lessons in junior high. However, my calligraphy foundation was so weak that I couldn’t even write my own name properly with a brush (I mean, the kind that’s barely legible).\n","date":"2026-03-22T08:32:40Z","permalink":"/blog/chinese-calligraphy/","title":"About Chinese Calligraphy Education"},{"content":"My parents bought me some shoes from “Hong ×× Ke” in Shenzhen. I tried many shoe sizes but they often didn’t quite fit my feet. They were all narrow on the left and right, but quite spacious on the front and back. I came to the following conclusion: Mainlanders’ feet are different from ours, and they are probably still have the foot-binding practice.\n","date":"2026-03-19T18:46:40Z","permalink":"/blog/do-mainlanders-still-bind-their-feet/","title":"Do Mainlanders Still Bind Their Feet?"},{"content":" ⚠️ Notice This post is a draft translation from the Chinese version which have not yet been thoroughly proofread.\nOld passage I have a semi-joking essay that I originally published in 2018, the original text of which is as follows:\n話說在 1910 年代，有一群人看見人們讀文言文實在太辛苦了，於是便發起了白話文運動，可是直到現在，文言文仍然是中文義務教育（特別是大中華地區）當中的重要一環，仍然有不少人被迫為文言文而苦練、浪費光陰，而這些也不是他們感興趣的東西。社會的資源都被浪費在文言教育上（而且沒有甚麼實質用途，除了應付考試），造成現在的青少年的由於分心在文言而導致語文能力低下。所以由此可見，白話文運動是失敗的。\n有人認為，要是沒有人再學習文言文，我們就會與五千年的中國文化和歷史割裂，持這些觀點的人認為，一旦文言文不再列入義務教育，就不會再有人學習文言文。可見我認為，這個世界上或多或少都會有一些對文言有興趣、有天分的人，他們可以替另一群沒有興趣的人去繼承這些歷史。文言文也可以作為選修科目，讓有興趣的人自行研究，而不是去強迫所有人去學習這門艱深的密碼。不是所有人都有這樣的能耐，於是導致他們不僅對文言失去興趣，令他們在各方面的能力或多或少有些影響，他們也有可能因為這樣而得上心理疾病，這樣長遠對社會的發展是很不利的。\n既然白話文運動是失敗的，矯正文字的方法無效，何不矯正人們的口語，讓人們說文言文，讓文言作為人們的第一語言，這樣人們自然也能更高效地學好文言，也能符合白話文運動「我手寫我口」的初衷。\n強迫所有學生學習自己母語以外的語言對不少人來說頗為辛苦，我認為讓他們專心學好一種語言能提高整體的語文能力，因為學生不用為其他外語（甚至密碼）而分心。想當年，香港曾出現「重英輕中」的社會風氣，可是他們沒有完全摒棄中文（或英文），導致學生們有雙重負擔，學習水平自然會下降。\n那麼從現在開始，對下一代的文言教育作好打算吧！我們儘早應該為下一代以文言作第一語言鋪路！\nA classical Chinese version translated by a friend:\n夫一九一零之際，或見人語文言者誠苦，則發白文之運，然今，文言仍中文義務教區之大者也，是猶以中原為甚，仍有苦習文言，光陰揮霍者甚蕃，而彼亦其無心者也。社稷之資，皆廢文言，且除應試外，實用之無，致今青年由之低語之能。由是，則知白文之運，敗也。\n或以若無人習文言，则我輩失五千年華夏文化，絕史矣。執此見者以以為，若文言去義學，則無人習之。而余以為，是世果存趣於文言，質於文言者若干，彼等可代無趣於文言者承此史也。文言亦可為选修之科，請趣之者自研，而非迫人悉習此高深密碼。微人皆有是能，故致其不僅失趣，動於各面若干，更亦或因是而心疾染，長此以往，不利社稷進也。\n今者白文之運既敗，正文之法不效，何不正人口語，使人語文言，以之正音，如是，則人自速習文言，亦切白文之運初云「我手寫我口」者耳。\n迫悉生習外語，多人苦之。余以為，以學者無需分心於外語，甚至密碼者，使之專於一語之學，可拔其總語之能。觀夫香港舊日，現「重英輕華」之相，然彼等均盡未棄其二者之一，致其雙負，習能自下。\n故今者語始於計慮後人之文言！後人以文言為語，我等當早路之！\nMy current view Eight years have passed, so has my view changed? The answer is: not significantly.\nUnless you intend to study Chinese history and culture, or become a Chinese teacher, classical Chinese is completely useless for daily life “after exam-oriented education.” You only need a basic level of Chinese for everyday communication to get by.\nAs for what language to teach your children at home in the future, that’s another topic altogether.\n","date":"2026-03-19T10:10:01Z","permalink":"/blog/studying-classical-chinese/","title":"Importance of Studying Classical Chinese"},{"content":" ⚠️ Notice This post is a draft translation from the Chinese version which have not yet been thoroughly proofread.\nWhen I take the MBTI test privately, my results consistently fall between INTP and INFP (50-something % of T). However, I don’t know why everyone around me describes me as an INFP.\nSince I’m not a typical T or F, some statements that might apply to typical T or F people don’t entirely apply to me. Sometimes I might lean towards F, and sometimes I might lean towards T.\nI recently attended a workshop discussing MBTI, where it was mentioned that NF people need to “experience God in suffering”1 and are very interested in “expanding their business beyond a certain area”, which I’m not very keen on. The workshop also mentioned suitable gifts for different personality types:\nST: Gifts with practical value, such as cash. SF: A gift that shows thoughtfulness and care. NF: A “meaningful” gift, which does the job by giving some random trash and then make up a touching story about it. NT: Novel and creative gifts. I’m not very keen on those gifts or NF, and I’d actually prefer gifts for NT or even ST. I even think gifts for NF are a bit ridiculous.\nLike Wiwi said, isn’t it quite good to stick in the midpoint between T and F?\nBy the way, the seating arrangement2 in that workshop virtually made that all I-people have to seat closer in the front, it was truly hellish.\nI am not a religious person and do not belong to any particular religious faith, but I am not a complete atheist either. I am more inclined to be a skeptic.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nThe seating arrangement logic is very simple: just take an MBTI standard chart that you can easily find online and paste it (virtually) onto our venue. I is placed at the top of the chart, which would be on the side closer to the podium.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n","date":"2026-03-16T20:13:00Z","permalink":"/blog/t-or-f/","title":"T or F?"},{"content":" ⚠️ Notice This post is a draft translation from the Chinese version which have not yet been thoroughly proofread.\nThere is a community called BlogBlog Club which is promoting the advantages of RSS recently, claiming that RSS can help us break free from the control of algorithms, and so on. There are many articles in this community introducing the advantages of RSS, so I won\u0026rsquo;t list them here. But have you ever considered whether RSS is really as perfect as you imagine?\nPushing vs Polling RSS is a technology that only supports polling and cannot push, which means that RSS readers need to constantly get data from websites that provide RSS. And this problem became serious after the advent of the AI ​​​​era.\nBattle of webcrawlers After the advent of the AI ​​​​era, web crawlers in order to extract data on a large scale for training, began to become unethical, even the ancient gentleman protocol robots.txt simply ignored, indiscriminately crawled public website pages in large numbers, disguised as DDoS, making webmasters all over the world miserable. Faced with this situation, websites have resorted to various countermeasures. Some websites require login to use certain functions, or enable human-machine verification for filtering. These countermeasures are completely contrary to the mechanism of RSS only supporting polling.\nShould we hate RSS? I don’t know either. I will provide RSS in this blog for now, but I do have some improvements in mind:\nUse pushing, don’t update data using lagging polling Strengthen security mechanisms to prevent XSS Promote format standardization Establish a “verify first then grab” mechanism to reduce the DDoS burden brought by the polling mechanism. This also provides an improvement for survival in the paywall ecosystem. ","date":"2026-03-16T13:19:00Z","permalink":"/blog/is-rss-a-mountain-of-history/","title":"Is RSS a Mountain of History?"},{"content":" ⚠️ Notice This post is a draft translation from the Chinese version which have not yet been thoroughly proofread.\n💡 BlogBlog Club! The content of this post seems quite match the topic “Am I the only one like this?”, which is the topic of February 2026’s BlogBlog Club, but unfortunately I ended up coming too late! I didn’t even get the inspiration to write it until mid-March.\nFrom a very young age, I’ve always found the sight of dogs baring their teeth terrifying, coupled with my parents’ mentions of dogs biting behaviours (though I’ve probably never been bitten), in addition to myself thinking that I can’t control the behaviour of animals (it’s already quite tough for me to face other humans), even now, the mere sight of a dog triggers a strong physical unease (though this fear only occurs when I see a real dog; looking at photos or watching them on a screen is fine). This often leads to difficulties when I go out.\nI don’t know when it started, but more and more people are bringing their dogs into indoor shopping malls1, medias are reporting that there’s an upward trend in the number of people keeping pets, as well as many organizations are actively promoting pet-friendly facilities. It feels like they’re declaring war on someone like me who is not good at interacting with pets. I truly feel that I’m drifting further and further away from being a “normal person”, someone who can be accepted by the society.\nEvery time I go out, I have to worry about whether I will encounter dogs on the road, whether I will have to take a long detour or take a more dangerous route (such as a bike path or a place close to the road, which are not designed as a pavement), and my fear response is proportional to the size of the dog. On several occasions, when I was in unfamiliar areas, I tried many different routes but encountered large dogs blocking my way, which eventually led to my emotional breakdown on the street.\nIs cynophobia an illness? Does it need to be treated?\nAlthough many dogs that walks in shopping malls now actually put in carts and being pushed around, I personally feel much better.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n","date":"2026-03-12T17:57:10Z","permalink":"/blog/fear-of-dogs/","title":"Fear of Dogs"},{"content":" ⚠️ Notice This post is a draft translation from the Chinese version which have not yet been thoroughly proofread.\n💡 BlogBlog Club! The content of this post seems quite fit the topic “Am I the only one like this?”, which is the topic of February 2026’s BlogBlog Club, but unfortunately I ended up coming too late! I didn’t even get the inspiration to write it until mid-March.\nDespite never having travelled to very far places1, and rarely eat during early morning time, my biological clock inexplicably suffers from severe jet lag. This problem seems to be innate; when I’m not in school or working, my mind stays awake until 2 or 3 am before I start feeling sleepy, then I fall into a deep sleep and don’t wake up naturally until the afternoon of the next day2. In recent years, this has been trending later and later. If I try to force myself to go to bed early, I end up with insomnia, lying in bed for hours without being able to fall asleep. However, I personally feel that as long as I’m allowed to go to bed late and wake up late, my sleep is generally sufficient. I only feel sleep-deprived when I force myself to wake up early, as if my biological clock has drifted to another time zone, creating a time difference with the surrounding society. Over time, my lifestyle has become completely reversed, making it impossible for me to adapt to any social demands.\nHypothetical solutions I’ve been wondering if it’s possible that if I were sent abroad and then sent back, my biological clock might actually be restored. Let’s do the math:\nFlying westward: Suppose I’m flying from Hong Kong to London. Let’s say I take off at 12 midnight Hong Kong time and arrive in London at 7 am (in summer), which is about 14 hours physically. Of those 14 hours on the plane, the latter 7 hours are roughly my current sleep time, and my biological clock immediately returns to normal upon landing. However, this only considers the outbound journey. It’s said that this approach virtually compresses the day on the return trip, essentially forcing myself to go to sleep earlier again, making the symptoms of a disrupted biological clock more likely to recur. Flying eastward: Suppose I’m flying from Hong Kong to Vancouver. Let’s say I take off at 12 noon Hong Kong time and arrive in Vancouver at 9 am (in summer), which is about 12 hours physically. I’ll arrive in what would be afternoon on my biological clock, and then I’ll start staying up late to fall asleep in what feels like the early morning (late night on the West Coast of North America). However, to correct my biological clock this way, I would probably have to stay in North America for at least a week, which would essentially shift my biological clock phase backward until the time difference exceeds 24 hours. Doesn’t that seem to put a greater strain on my body? Poor light exposure Scientific research suggests that if you simply want to adjust your biological clock, light exposure may be more effective than a long-distance travel. In fact, my light exposure habits in Hong Kong are already quite poor, I’m constantly exposed to indoor environments filled with white and blue light, even late at night. Perhaps I should install a warm light in the room where my brain is working at its peak late at night.\nDon’t blame me for being from a poor family and struggling financially.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nAs we all know, sunrise is the start of a day.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n","date":"2026-03-12T18:00:00Z","permalink":"/blog/jet-lag/","title":"Jet Lag"},{"content":" This page is still work in progress, stay focus for continuous upcoming updates on this page!\nThis page is intended to be used as notes, pardon me for the somewhat disorganized passage. FEN strings appear on this page are planned to be made into an interactive web gadget at a later stage, in order to make the passage more convenient to read.\nBare king endgames King \u0026amp; queen vs bare king After forcing the defending king to the edge of the board, the queen should keep a 4 × 2 distance (a knight move stretched by one square) from the opponent’s king until both kings are close enough, to prevent stalemate.\nKing \u0026amp; rook vs bare king If the rook is attacked by the defending king and cannot proceed, move the rook along the same file or rank that can restrict the opponent’s king’s movement as a waiting move.\nKing \u0026amp; two bishops vs bare king First force the defending king to the edge of the board. Arrange the attacking pieces as a “bishop-bishop-king” shape, with one of the bishop and the defending king forming a shape similar to opposition. W manoeuvre the bishops to force the defending king to the corner. If the defending king touches a bishop, move the attacking king to protect the bishop. After the defending king is trapped on the corner, make good use of middle bishop’s waiting move to make the defending king be only able to move back and forth between two squares at the edge of the board. FEN string: k7/8/BBK5/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1\nBg1 Kb8 2. Kb6 Ka8 3. Bb7 Kb8 4. Bg2# King \u0026amp; bishop \u0026amp; knight vs bare king (Work in progress)\nKing \u0026amp; pawn endgames Many king \u0026amp; pawn endgames have only one correct solution, with only a single inaccuracy often leads to a draw, or even reverse the position.\nKing \u0026amp; single pawn vs bare king The attacking side can ensure a win if at least any two of the following conditions are met:\nThe attacking king is in front of the pawn; The attacking king has the opposition; The attacking king is on the sixth rank. If the attacking sides pawn is on a or h-file, it would be very hard to win if the defending king ever get in front of the pawn. Exception exists as follow:\nFEN string: 5k2/8/6KP/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1\nWhite wins by playing h7 first.\nRook \u0026amp; pawn endgames In the situation of a single rook versus a single pawn (KRKP), the pawn side can draw the game if they can prevent the opponent’s king from approaching their pawn. The rook side should try to approach the pawn with their king, as well as watching the pawn from behind with the rook.\nFEN string: 3r4/8/1PK2p2/5k2/8/8/8/1R6 b - - 0 1\nIf black moves first, the only solution is Ke4, shouldering the enemy king.\nFEN string: 1B6/8/4k3/1K6/4r2p/1P6/8/8 w - - 0 1\nAfter exchanging black’s passed pawn with a white bishop, a single rook versus single pawn position forms.\n","date":"2026-03-09T19:18:40Z","permalink":"/blog/chess-endgame-complete-guide/","title":"Chess Endgame Complete Guide"},{"content":" ⚠️ Notice This post is a draft translation from the Chinese version which have not yet been thoroughly proofread.\n💡 BlogBlog Club! The content of this post seems quite match the topic “Am I the only one like this?”, which is the topic of February 2026’s BlogBlog Club, but unfortunately I ended up coming too late! I didn’t even get the inspiration to write it until early-March.\nI seem to have never really grasped the concept of personal financial management.\nSo I went out with a group of friends I hadn’t known for very long, and we all had to chip in to pay. I paid with cash on the spot at the first time; On the second time, they stated that they whish to collect the money via PayMe or FPS beforehand, so I found someone who’s more familiar with me to help me out first, since I wasn’t quite familiar with such things at the moment. Though that person ended up ask me to return the money to them via FPS later on. 🤣\nOn one occasion when I dined out with this group of people, I paid in cash, I was probably the only one among them who paid in cash. 🤣\nThe education I’ve received since my childhood seems to only involve cash and Octopus cards regarding to payment methods, and nobody’s ever really instructed me about some newer electronic payment methods grown up in the recent years. Maybe one day I have to be accustomed to these newer payment methods too? However, where should I begin, and how should I get started? Nobody can answer that for me.\n","date":"2026-03-03T17:25:16Z","permalink":"/blog/still-stuck-at-cash-payment/","title":"Still Stuck at Cash Payment?"},{"content":" ⚠️ Notice This post is a draft translation from the Chinese version which have not yet been thoroughly proofread.\nIt is well known that Christianity does not advocate “superstition”. Some people say that MBTI is “pseudoscience”, so should MBTI be a “superstition”, like Chinese zodiacs and astronomy?\nPseudoscience = superstition? MBTI is similar to fortune-telling theories (like Chinese zodiacs, Bazi, Zi Wei Dou Shu, etc.), astrology, and blood type personality theory, which analyzes a person’s personality traits. Some claim that MBTI, like typical fortune-telling theories, is pseudoscience. The MBTI article on English Wikipedia explicitly states that MBTI is pseudoscience from the outset. So, what exactly are the differences between MBTI and these traditional fortune-telling theories?\nWhen Christians become fortune tellers Recently, I’ve noticed that Christians around me have started seriously analyzing the personality traits of different people using MBTI, some have even enrolled in in-depth MBTI courses and are now starting analyzing the MBTI of people around them or celebrities. Their discussions include detailed analyses of different MBTI types, how different traits behave at different ages, and so on—it’s like fortune-telling. So, what’s the difference between these Christians and those fortune tellers they accuse of being “superstitious”?\nIs Christianity also a kind of “superstition”? Conversely, since no one can prove that Christianity is necessarily correct, isn’t Christianity also a kind of “superstition”?\nConclusion Anyway, I’m personally not a Christian myself, neither have I a specific faith. Maintaining good social relationships is much more important for me at the moment, so I probably shouldn’t raise this question to them in person for now.\n","date":"2026-03-03T12:31:26Z","permalink":"/blog/christianity-and-mbti/","title":"Christianity and MBTI"}]