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• A Rehearsal Before National Day

  26 Jul, 2026

  A photo set from a July Saturday at Singapore's National Day rehearsal — a humid afternoon at Satay By The Bay, an overcast Marina Bay, a helicopter flying low with the state flag slung beneath it, and four minutes of fireworks over the Kallang Basin.

• An Evening at East Coast Park

  21 Jul, 2026

  A photo set from a July afternoon into evening at Singapore's East Coast Park — cable skiing on the lagoon, charcoal smoke at the hawker centre, everyday life along the shoreline, and clouds, freighters and kites after sundown.

• Orchids at the Singapore Botanic Gardens

  19 Jul, 2026

  A photo set from a mid-July afternoon at the Singapore Botanic Gardens and the National Orchid Garden — orchid close-ups, rainforest paths, an outdoor orchestra, and evening street scenes.

• Converting V-Log LUTs to Standard: An Amateur Exploration of LUMIX, ISO, and Color Science

  10 Jul, 2026

  Starting from the ISO 640 floor imposed by V-Log-based photo styles, I analytically remap creative LUTs onto a Standard/sRGB input base using Panasonic's published V-Log OETF and V-Gamut matrix, then verify the cross-Photo-Style ISO rating and SNR differences with RAW test shots.

• Early Summer Snapshots

  9 Jul, 2026

  Practice shots from June to early July with a new Lumix S9 — a double rainbow after the rain, lakeside gardens, a rainy airport, a stacked moon close-up, and a hike at MacRitchie Reservoir.

• A Beginner's Course in Photographic Lens Optical Design: From Aberrations and Classic Lens Groups to Computational Optics

  9 Jun, 2026

  From paraxial ideals and Seidel aberrations to classic lens groups like the Cooke Triplet, Double Gauss, telephoto and retrofocus, then on to aspherics, special glass, MTF and computational optics — a beginner's course that threads photographic lens design into one coherent picture.

• Tricks Claude and ChatGPT into Accepting API-Key-Only MCP Servers

  26 Apr, 2026

  Facing Claude and ChatGPT's OAuth-only restriction, I built MCP-Key2OAuth — a lightweight Cloudflare Workers proxy that lets any API-key-authenticated MCP server connect to major AI clients without touching the backend.

• Taiwan Travelogue

  20 Apr, 2026

  A travel log from late 2025 with a friend, going from Taipei south through Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung, then returning home via a Hong Kong layover.

• Idle Router + Xiaomi Speaker: Hardcore Guide to Low-Cost LAN AirPlay 2 Audio Bridging

  22 Mar, 2026

  A practical guide and troubleshooting record on using an idle OpenWrt/ImmortalWrt router to build a low-latency AirPlay 2 receiver for the Xiaomi Smart Speaker Pro.

• AI Secondary Screen (Part 2): Building a Personalized Multi-Source News Recommendation Feed with LLMs

  10 Feb, 2026

  A practical project demonstrating how to build a personalized news recommendation system using LLMs.