Yifei's blog for writing and photographyhttps://yfxu.net/enhttps://yfxu.net/posts/building-picpan/https://yfxu.net/posts/building-picpan/I recently started a new project to build a self-hostable photo gallery without the need to own an expensive homelab or additional storage hardware. Develo…Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTyifei@yfxu.nethttps://yfxu.net/posts/digital-housekeeping-1/https://yfxu.net/posts/digital-housekeeping-1/General Passwords I put as many passwords as I can into my password manager. If possible, I try to make new accounts on websites instead of using OAuth to …Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTyifei@yfxu.nethttps://yfxu.net/posts/hashing/https://yfxu.net/posts/hashing/The data visualizations in this post may be more legible on a light colour-scheme. I had this sudden idea to visualize each and every single bit of a SHA-2…Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTyifei@yfxu.nethttps://yfxu.net/posts/i-have-no-takeaways-from-travelling/https://yfxu.net/posts/i-have-no-takeaways-from-travelling/For quite some time now, I've wanted to write a post about my time in Japan. Starting in October 2022, I did an internship in Tokyo for 7 months, and then …Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTyifei@yfxu.nethttps://yfxu.net/posts/osulist-is-deadish/https://yfxu.net/posts/osulist-is-deadish/I've just destroyed the DigitalOcean droplet that served osulist.com for two years. It's not a particularly emotional event or anything, but actually makin…Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTyifei@yfxu.nethttps://yfxu.net/posts/google-search-psa/https://yfxu.net/posts/google-search-psa/When you make a Google search, there's a chance that a result will be contained inside a featured snippet. This is what it looks like: Featured snippets ar…Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMTyifei@yfxu.nethttps://yfxu.net/posts/the-chopsticks-pocket/https://yfxu.net/posts/the-chopsticks-pocket/In the front pocket of my backpack, there's a little space dedicated to multiple pairs of disposable chopsticks I've picked up from who-knows-where. It's o…Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTyifei@yfxu.nethttps://yfxu.net/posts/reviewing-my-first-pc-build/https://yfxu.net/posts/reviewing-my-first-pc-build/A bit over two years ago, I built my first desktop PC. It was a dream I'd had since the elementary and middle school days of watching gaming YouTubers reco…Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 GMTyifei@yfxu.nethttps://yfxu.net/posts/an-editorial-on-gamepedia-and-fandom/https://yfxu.net/posts/an-editorial-on-gamepedia-and-fandom/Gamepedia was a wiki hosting site well-known for hosting some of the most popular gaming-related wikis on the web. It was home to many official wikis of po…Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTyifei@yfxu.nethttps://yfxu.net/posts/on-cybersecurity-and-parenting/https://yfxu.net/posts/on-cybersecurity-and-parenting/A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to listen in on an online cybersecurity presentation delivered live by Paul Davis. He's both a father and an experie…Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMTyifei@yfxu.nethttps://yfxu.net/posts/the-illusion-of-disagreement/https://yfxu.net/posts/the-illusion-of-disagreement/Earlier today, Jasmine and I were playing a game called "Wavelength." It's a pretty simple game where two or more players take turns guessing how much or h…Sun, 21 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMTyifei@yfxu.nethttps://yfxu.net/posts/things-i-wish-my-teachers-did-differently/https://yfxu.net/posts/things-i-wish-my-teachers-did-differently/This post serves as a letter to myself in the future if I ever decide to become a better teacher. ALSO I recognize that I am one individual student with my…Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTyifei@yfxu.nethttps://yfxu.net/posts/conveying-emotion-through-text/https://yfxu.net/posts/conveying-emotion-through-text/Disclaimer: Please don't take this post too seriously Do YOU want to spice up your online messaging style??? Well you've come to the right place! Here are …Sun, 14 Mar 2021 06:32:51 GMTyifei@yfxu.nethttps://yfxu.net/posts/four-years-of-osu-mapping/https://yfxu.net/posts/four-years-of-osu-mapping/The Start 2017-01-28 &8227; An - 花柳采 (Karyuusai) About 4 years ago, I published Karyuusai as my first serious attempt at making an osu! beatmap—meani…Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:51:00 GMTyifei@yfxu.nethttps://yfxu.net/posts/an-adventure-in-building-osulist/https://yfxu.net/posts/an-adventure-in-building-osulist/https://osulist.tk/ One of my favorite computer games is osu! (exclamation mark included) It's a free rhythm game where the player's goal is to click a bun…Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTyifei@yfxu.nethttps://yfxu.net/posts/getting-back-into-blogging/https://yfxu.net/posts/getting-back-into-blogging/Back in early 2016, I created a Tumblr account because God knows why. Aha, actually it's because I sorta wanted to exercise my writing skills somewhere out…Sun, 29 Nov 2020 03:48:20 GMTyifei@yfxu.nethttps://yfxu.net/posts/thoughts-on-design/https://yfxu.net/posts/thoughts-on-design/Many of my friends are well-invested into various forms of arts, either as hobbyists or professionals. So I hear a lot about the zeitgeist™ of whatever art…Sat, 28 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMTyifei@yfxu.net