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  • Landscapes, US West

    Image previews in this article add up to 221 MB. Disclaimer: No tripod used in any of these photos. Photos from a road trip over 16 days in May 2024. It was also my first scenic road trip in the US. I started the trip from San Jose, CA in a car. To begin, I…

  • Permissive Navigation

    The back button is perhaps the most ubiquitous element in app GUIs. It has been the go-to solution for both designers and users in many situations. The great importance of the back button has naturally resulted from the stack navigation paradigm seen in apps. However, contrary to popular opinion, I am arguing against it on…

  • Gutenburg Adaptive Column LayoutHow This Site is Stylized

    You now have to use a hack to implement adaptive column layout, as the framework exposes no way to use a @media query or even a custom CSS selector. This hack is also extremely funny and exposes some intriguing design in Gutenburg.

  • Chromium Browser Data Migration on Windows

    Modern Chromium utilizes the Windows Data Protection API (DPAPI), specifically CryptProtectData(). Data migration cannot be done by simply copying the data directory to another computer, because the data would be encrypted with a key only available on the source computer. Fortunately, it turns out to be fairly simple to migrate Chromium user data, thanks to…

  • Server Administration Memo

    This domain name is tebibyte.io. You have to admit that’s pretty cool. Tebibyte was originally only a storage server intended for my family and close friends.

  • Don’t Solve A Problem

    Instead, produce or adapt a better theory, which will naturally lead you beyond the problem you are trying to solve, or at least let you see the subject more clearly.

  • Why Does “App” Still Exist?A meta-UX reflection of the past decade of apps

    What characterizes the digital world of the 2010’s? Most would agree with Web 2 and a world of apps. But whatever prosperity it seems to be does not prevent me from, alternatively, considering our current world of apps as an ad hoc mess. It has been practically obvious that no modestly sized group of experts…

  • A Flashback of /~www-users

    You may have noticed that this blog exist(ed) at https://www-users.tebibyte.io/~yihanwu1024/ on May 16th, 2022. As its name suggests, this subdomain is for user-managed websites. Typically, the URL follows the form of https://www-users.example.org/~user/ or https://www.example.org/~user/, which, quite weirdly, feels a little bit retro. This impression is because a typical www-users setup only serves static content for…

  • Hello world!

    How many times have I set up WordPress?