Short, timestamped, unpolished — the stuff between essays. Newest first.https://qdgiang.uk/https://qdgiang.uk/stream/#2026-07-26-first-imagehttps://qdgiang.uk/stream/#2026-07-26-first-imageThe stream can carry images now — dropped into the thought's own folder, optimized at build. Fittingly, the first one is a picture of literal data streams:  _Found lying around in the content folder. The pipeline did the rest._Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:41:00 GMThttps://qdgiang.uk/stream/#2026-07-26-thu-tieng-viethttps://qdgiang.uk/stream/#2026-07-26-thu-tieng-vietThử viết một dòng tiếng Việt cho stream: ă â đ ê ô ơ ư, sáu thanh đủ cả — huyền sắc hỏi ngã nặng. Nếu dòng này hiển thị tử tế thì font tự host đã làm đúng việc của nó.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:12:00 GMThttps://qdgiang.uk/stream/#2026-07-26-specifying-not-typinghttps://qdgiang.uk/stream/#2026-07-26-specifying-not-typingWatching agents take over the boring parts of data engineering. The job is less typing pipelines, more specifying them precisely enough to hand off — and precision, it turns out, was always the hard part.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:47:00 GMThttps://qdgiang.uk/stream/#2026-07-25-invisible-diffshttps://qdgiang.uk/stream/#2026-07-25-invisible-diffsRefactored this whole site today — five copies of the design tokens collapsed into one — and proved it changed nothing: 18 screenshots, byte-identical before and after. The best diffs are the ones you can't see.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:05:00 GMThttps://qdgiang.uk/stream/#2026-07-25-node-in-a-boxhttps://qdgiang.uk/stream/#2026-07-25-node-in-a-boxEverything node-shaped on this machine runs in a container now. `npm install` never touches the host, and “works on my machine” quietly becomes “works in the image.”Sat, 25 Jul 2026 10:31:00 GMThttps://qdgiang.uk/stream/#2026-07-24-first-stonehttps://qdgiang.uk/stream/#2026-07-24-first-stoneA stream needs a first stone. This is it — short thoughts with timestamps, for the things that don't deserve a whole essay but deserve better than vanishing.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:12:00 GMT