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Math Puzzles, Printouts, and the New Creative Barrier

A coworker showed me something that stuck. He'd used GenAI to build an onboarding website for our project — a project with 200+ people, thousands of Confluence pages, JIRA boards going back years, sca…

2026-02-21 · 6 min · Lijun Zhu

Ditching the Theme

I just removed the PaperMod theme from this site. Not switched themes—removed the concept of a theme entirely. Every template, partial, and stylesheet now lives directly in my project. No submodule, n…

2026-02-17 · 5 min · Lijun Zhu

WoW After 20 Years: Better Game, Lonelier World

Three kids huddled around a single computer after school, so absorbed in Warcraft 3 that we forgot dinner existed. That's my earliest memory of Blizzard's world—chaotic, social, and impossible to put …

2026-01-29 · 3 min · Lijun Zhu

My $5k Bet on Self-Hosted AI

The conversation around self-hosting usually starts with privacy. For me, it started with a lagging desktop and a migration script. I've been running my digital life on a Mac Mini M1 (16GB). Great as …

2026-01-01 · 6 min · Lijun Zhu

The Automation of Knowing: What's Worth Learning in the Age of LLMs?

"... nothing that is worth knowing can be taught" — Oscar Wilde Wilde meant this as a provocation. In 2025, it reads like a job description. Large Language Models have automated the "teachable" laye…

2025-09-21 · 4 min · Lijun Zhu