My Happy Place
When I’m not architecting data pipelines, I’m usually at the potter’s wheel or exploring digital realms.
Creative experiments
Design intelligence, agent skills, open-source production tools, and AI filmmaking case studies I explore for more thoughtful and expressive creative work.
Real-time analytics database
An open-source, real-time analytics database on an MPP architecture that runs OLAP queries, lakehouse analytics and hybrid search at petabyte scale on a single engine.
Design intelligence skill
A searchable design-intelligence skill I use to shape design systems, responsive interfaces, accessibility, colour, typography, and implementation decisions.
Local design agent skills
A set of agent skills that brings a Claude Design-style workflow to local coding agents, with editors for canvases, slide decks, dashboards, and design systems.
Engineering agent skills
Matt Pocock’s small, composable agent skills for real engineering work rather than vibe coding, covering specs, TDD, debugging, code review, and handoffs.
Quality agent skills
Matthew Blode’s open-source agent skills that help AI coding agents ship polished, production-quality work instead of AI slop.
Website audit plugin
A free, open-source Claude Code plugin that audits a live website for SEO, security, accessibility and speed, then helps fix what it finds.
Agentic analytics context layer
NVIDIA’s open-source framework that builds an ontology from enterprise metadata, so agents get trusted business definitions for text-to-SQL, with validation, provenance and MCP access.
Creative production tool
An open-source agentic video-production system I am exploring for research, scripting, asset generation, editing, subtitles, and final composition.
Open-source filmmaking study
Study how a feature-length AI movie was reportedly produced by a 15-person team in 14 days using Higgsfield. The Hell Grind team is turning its production playbook into an open-source textbook, including its prompt pipelines and character-consistency frameworks. I am exploring its production approach alongside OpenMontage.
Animation & donghua
Cultivation worlds, unforgettable journeys, and characters worth cheering for.
BOOK STORIES
A few books I'm reading now and recently finished.
Reading list
Published in July 2018
A tender story of Liu Shisan, family, homecoming, love, and growing up in the mountain town of Yunbian.
Current focus
First published 1986 · Chinese edition 2020
Eight stories about people searching for grace in uncertain times.
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It Takes TwoCo-op masterpiece8.8/10Metacritic
Hogwarts LegacyMagical explorer8.4/10Metacritic
Pokémon GOExplore the world together69/100MetacriticGaming festival
Three days of games, live experiences, tournaments, panels, and community at Australia’s biggest celebration of gaming culture.
Energy conference
Two days of ideas, technology, and conversations shaping Australia's clean-energy transition, from grids and storage to energy management and electric mobility.
Technology conference
A conference I’m planning to attend this year, exploring API design, security, AI-driven automation, governance, and the technology shaping human-centric public and private services.
