I can’t believe after so many years, Linux desktop still sucks. I have to confess that, this was one of the biggest reasons I bought a PC and installed Linux, to kill boring stay-at-home time. So, ...

OK, now we are talking. One of the biggest reasons that I wanted to get a PC, was to get better performing emacs because macOS sucks. Why Ubuntu? This was not an easy choice. Already before conf...

So, I have a Windows 10 Pro license lying around somewhere for a long time, and now it is finally more useful than registering a virtual machine. I thought booting from a USB key should be out of ...

老夫聊发少年狂，漫漫冬日无绝期，不如攒台机器玩。 The very first and last desktop PC I had was the one I built just before I entered college, which was 20 years ago. Ever since then I have been sticking to laptop PC/Mac a...

Last I migrated from WordPress to Jekyll, and I have a vague memory that it was painful. Now after many years, I had to do another migration/upgrade because the template I built on seems to have be...

The favicons of Chirpy are placed in the directory assets/img/favicons/. You may need to replace them with your own. The following sections will guide you how to create and replace the default favi...

Naming and Path Create a new file named YYYY-MM-DD-TITLE.EXTENSION and put it in the _posts/ of the root directory. Please note that the EXTENSION must be one of md and markdown. Front Matter Ba...

This post is to show Markdown syntax rendering on Chirpy, you can also use it as an example of writing. Now, let’s start looking at text and typography. Titles H1 - heading H2 - heading H3 - h...

It’s a kind of interesting problem. For a bunch of algorithms or data structures, it is fairly easy and very straight forward using Prolog to solve. And with backtracking, it is just a matter of ; ...

As my home network grows more and more complex, I need to find something to make it even more complex. Yes, why not setting up a PXE server? I actually have and may have more Linux boxes to install...