Pioneering Tomorrow’s Experiences
Breaking Free from the Basic QuickQR QuickQR Enhanced is finally complete. The original QuickQR was, to put it bluntly, ugly to look at and only capable of converting text to QR codes—truly the embodiment of a “if it works, it’s good enough” mentality. But during this site renewal, I casually thought “why not make it look better and add some features?” That was my downfall. The result? A feature-packed tool far exceeding my initial expectations, complete with WiFi settings, contacts, events, location data, batch processing, preset management, history management, camera scanning, and printing functionality. ...
A Side Effect of Site Migration After completing the recent site migration, I was organizing things in the new environment when I discovered a massive collection of “personal tools” that had accumulated over the years. Each one was born from thoughts like “it would be nice to have something like this,” created on a whim, and then quietly used by me alone ever since. Most were CUI (command-line) tools with no concept of UI whatsoever. The code was messy, the usage known only to me—true embodiments of the “if it works, it’s good enough” spirit. ...
Technical Debt Cleanup, Again Several years had passed since I last touched my portal site. It was the classic developer situation: “Oh right, I haven’t maintained that site at all.” I needed a place to publish side project tools and libraries anyway, so I finally got around to tackling the renewal. Why Hugo (Again)? I was already familiar with Hugo as a Go-based static site generator. While there are tons of options like Jekyll, Gatsby, Next.js (SSG), Hugo ultimately wins on build speed and template simplicity. Nothing beats the smooth experience of writing with hugo server and live reload. ...
