Motif began with a very small request. My partner was learning French for her semester and asked whether there was a local text-to-speech model she could use for pronunciation practice. Around the same time, I happened to come across Supertonic, an open-weight text-to-speech model designed for fast, on-device inference. When
This idea grew out of a couple of small, persistent observations I made over the past few years. One of them came from climbing. I’ve spent some time building a tool called Replay to look at my own climbing videos, mostly just to understand what I was doing wrong.
Documentation is usually static, but learning is not. When I’m learning a new language, library, or framework, I don’t want documentation to behave like a dictionary. I don’t just want to search for a term, read an API signature, or collect a few references. I want to
This week I’ve been thinking about the stage before AI creates anything. Most AI creation tools follow a fairly simple interaction loop: you type a prompt, wait for a bit, and receive an output. Sometimes the result genuinely feels magical, but the interaction itself is usually passive once generation
Cue is a desktop companion for asking questions with context already attached, so you can stay in your flow instead of constantly switching tabs and pasting things into chat. A lot of current AI UX still puts the burden of context on the user, even though that context already exists
TL;DR Last night at Mosaic, I was chatting with Tim Kang after he coached me through a movement I had been struggling with. His interpretation was very analytical and clear about the exact issue he noticed. Once he explained that relationship, I was able to practice the move differently
I’ve always had a deep appreciation for architecture: the geometry, the structure, the ideas behind it, as well as the history and cultural context of buildings in all their forms. Some of my old friends may still remember that I used to be especially interested in photographing buildings on
This board game is the result of my coursework in INFO 416 during Spring 2025 at the University of Illinois. As a climbing enthusiast, I was able to put my thoughts and the game design concepts I learned from the class into practice and create an actual physical game from
TL;DR I uploaded this blog post to Google's NotebookLM and had it generate a podcast for me. It turned out surprisingly well in terms of both audio quality and overall accuracy (and funny). If you're interested, here's the link to the clip (around 13 minutes). It's almost the end
It has been almost five months since I started bouldering. I thought it might be a good chance to recollect my past recorded videos and see how I did throughout this wonderful journey. I want to share my top 10 favorite climbs since I started. There are definitely great routes
As per my last post, I've been (indoor) bouldering for about 2 months now. I can now say I'm pretty confident in topping the red-taped routes (V0-2), and able to finish almost half of the yellow-taped routes (V2-4). To my surprise, I was even able to finish a V4-6 the
It has been more than a month since I wrote my last post. I could say it's because I've been busy with studies and works, but the main reason is that the majority of my spare time is on bouldering recently. The first time I heard about this place was