Notes on development, trading, and whatever else I'm thinking about.
A macOS menu-bar voice input tool. Tap Fn to talk, tap again to stop, text gets injected into the focused field. Forked from yetone's Apple Speech version, with the engine swapped for Volcano/Doubao streaming ASR plus an optional LLM correction pass.
Deep-read of Davidson & Rees-Mogg's 1997 prediction that the information age will dissolve nation-states, plus Peter Thiel's 2020 new foreword and the Chinese translator's preface — how to read it, its true diagnoses, its real blind spots
Deep-read of the second half of Davidson & Rees-Mogg's 1997 prophecy book — the cognitive-elite/network-poor binary, the Clinton conspiracy chapter that breaks the book's credibility, and Appendix 2 exposing the real genre (a subscription-newsletter sales funnel)
Davidson's Sovereign Individual × Karp's Technological Republic × the anonymous Digital Consensus give opposing political conclusions from the same set of technical facts. Thiel's dual account, Karp's Ch13/Ch18 semantic slide, the exit asymmetry, US/China mutual projection, and the blind spots all three share
Deep-read of the last 9 chapters of Karp & Zamiska's 2025 book — Palantir's engineering-culture mythology, the procurement-reform lawsuit, the piety-vs-loyalty translation drift in the Chinese edition, and Karp's biggest tell: Ch13 (government-contract win) vs Ch18 (free-market triumph) semantic slide
Deep-read of the first 9 chapters of Karp & Zamiska's 2025 critique of Silicon Valley — the AI paradigm shift, the loss of normative language among elites, the absorption of Valley energy into consumer apps, and the book's unproven core premise: that US-China conflict is inevitable
Deep-read of an anonymous Chinese WeChat essay (2022) on 'political philosophy in the information age' — a professional trader's religious investing framework and the maritime-law / continental-law / data-law trilateral geopolitical outline
A 7 MB native macOS Markdown reader, free and closed-source, distributed via Cloudflare R2.
Building a trilingual personal site with Astro + Cloudflare Pages — the full story from epub extraction to deployment