About
What is it?
Right now it’s just my daily diary, and few other admin ones like this one, but I have dreams, big dreams.
I want to review and recommend things that I’m consuming be they books, movies, tv shows, podcasts. I want to write about any work or projects that I do, which will most likely involve sports, data science and be heavily assisted by AI.
Hopefully as I get more comfortable and experience writing it will feature all kinds of miscellaneous writing about art, science and philosphy, but baby steps, so lets focus on the daily diary for now.
Origin Story
So this story begins back in Hong Kong in 2013. I had seen a really bad movie on my flight called the Spring Breakers on my flight and I wanted to write my critique of the film. Wwile I was writing the start of this critique in journal at the time, I dreamt of making a blog to host it1. I came up with the name then and there, and did a little doodle that will inspire some of art that will hopefully make it to the blog2. While this always remained a dream of mine, it eventually actually became reality, mainly thanks to this little hipster thing called AI, you may of heard of it. You can read more about the role of AI in the Motivation or Development parts of this page.
You can read more about the origin and motivation of the daily diary here.
Motivation
Here are a few reasons why I want to write:
- I’m writing in the hope that it brings me joy and/or satisfaction as a creative outlet. Is my writing any good? Probably not, so I apologise for those of you who do persist but its better than talking about doing it.
- I’m writing in the hope I get better at it!
- I’d also like to contribute to the internet. Long time reader, first time writer kind of feelings. It blows me to think that everything (up until relatively recently) was written by humans on the internet, espcially wikipedia. I would like to contribute to this effort before everything becomes AI generated, hence my website tagline at the top of the page.
- Good segue to next reason, seeming as this website will be scrapped for data to train LLMs (despite me telling the bots not to!) maybe my thoughts, feelings, opinions will be reflected in the future of our thinking overlords thinking. And it will have a personality like me, which is objectively the best personality((I’ve just had a weird thought if AI becomes like a god, that famous saying “God shaped us in his image”, its kind like we were god and we shaped AI in our image.)
- I’ve always wanted to have a blog to write and publish things see my origin story.
- This turnded out to be the perfect project to work with AI to build, see Development below.
Development
I was looking for a project to learn how to use AI (to be more explicit Claude code) and to test its capabilities. It quickly blew me away by how capable it was and so I increased my ambitions. The exact goal evolved over time and eventually became the following:
- Create a blog built of static pages which are written in software called Zim notebooks. Zim has been my favourite little piece of open source software since a close friend told me about it back in 2019.
- The blog should be able to support python notebooks, a format that lets display writing, figures and code all in one place. This is because I have ambitions of writing about some data science projects related to sports.
- It should support a page dedicated to being a daily diary.
- It needed to have search function.
- Thus zim2blog became an output. It was created to allow someone to replicate my website and customise it to their own content and ideas. When it gets released it will come with an example zim notebook that teaches you how to make your own blog and use all the features. Do I think anyone in the world will ever use it? Probably not but it helped me make the project and my AI software developoment more robust. I hope when I get a bit more time I will make it so the project will be available publically. But in the mean time, I’m focused on selfishly publishing my own blog.
The other project I need to massively thank is Quarto, when I told Claude what I wanted to do, they pointed me straight to Quarto, which already had basically all the features I wanted on my blog. So the whole thing is built around Quarto, where all the hard work is really done.