some of them may be useful
Assuming everyone has been following the recent Texas elementary school shooting incident, there is not much to explain the situation. Statistics about the gun shooting in US can be found everywhere online. I do want ...
Lately I spent some time converting some of my old code to an app, but of course with some new libraries. I published this app FotoAssemblyline to Microsoft Store. It is built using WinUI3 v ...
Just thought of a new website idea. I think I am going to do it. I am actually feeling good and excited about this idea. The domain name I was thinking earlier is registered already, but ...
I can’t help it. Couple days ago, I encountered another UWP WTF moments. There are solutions to all, but it is just not natural. Making me question if UWP gets any love at all. One ...
Here is how anyone can reproduce it. Create a custom control that is a MenuFlyoutItem and re-template it as this: <MenuFlyoutItem.Template> <ControlTemplate> <Grid x:Name=”RootGrid” Width=”280″> <HyperlinkButton Content=”Microsoft home page” Click=”{Binding ElementName=Host, Path=ViewModel.SignoutCommand}” /> </Grid> </ControlTemplate> ...
I have been encountering very unhelpful error messages when working with UWP. I am sure at least one of them inherit from WPF, but most of them appear to be new to me. Here is ...
Coming from years of experience with WinForms and WPF, UWP is weird. I am continuously having surprises (sometimes good, but sometimes poor) since working with UWP lately. Some of those gotchas are almost like in ...
Wow, I am back. My last post was in the end of April and now it is the end of November. Definitely a lot of things have happened in the last 7 months. We are ...
Lately I, like many other people in the world, are under lock down and social distance order, so I have been staying at home and spending a lot of time with my kid. This is ...
Web may eventually disappear… Hmm, did I say “Web”? I actually mean Web browsing may eventually…did I say disappear? OK, now I got your full attention, what I really want to say is: Today’s web ...
This is the second part of the previous post: 46: Define Interface With everything happening around the world lately, I think it is important to do things that make our own feeling alive. I decide to ...
I had an enlightening discussion with someone last week on how to solve a problem without jumping into a solution with interface. Unfortunately, at least from my perspective, the question was started with a reference ...
This is another episode of missing features in Strava. Here is the list of past episodes: 26: Missing Feature in Strava 35: Another missing feature in Strava I honestly feel they should hire me as ...
Origin I had a trip recently. I was wandering in the airport before my flight, and realized one thing: Why is bookstore in airport still a thing? And why almost all (medium size or up) ...
First, I converted HongInCanada.com to Blazor hosted model. Took me a few days due to some unexpected issues. I wanted to something simple, so I change what I used to have with much simpler layout ...
A simple idea: How can I identify the breed of a cat? I mean, any cat. It is trivial to differentiate dogs from cats. There are many work have been done and can be found ...
This was my old idea from 2012, and I built OurCraving.com back in 2013. I published a long post of my research, motivation and design in a different blog, however, I finally decided not to ...
Seriously, this is very much needed. I was trying to listen to calm sleeping music for a nap. Just after one song, the ad came up. 3 in a row, not just one commercial, it ...
First, there are tons of recommendations about turning off your phone before going to bed, such as: this: Put the Phone Away! 3 Reasons Why Looking at It Before Bed Is a Bad Habit or ...
Honestly, busy at work in the last few weeks, and then another surprise with tight deadline a week ago. My whole team had to drop everything and fully focused on the surprise. I was not ...
First, let’s walk through 3 types of shopping experiences I had Buying Mattress Online A few months ago, we decided to replace our 15-year old spring mattress and we were tempted to try one of ...
Earlier I came up with an idea of 16: Interview for a city leader. The other day during a water cooler chatting, a coworker suggested that we could use AI to select president candidates. This is ...
I have previously posted an idea about a missing feature in Strava. Lately I have been feeling another feature missing there. Today I read a news about Strava has its CEO changed, hence I decided ...
This year I decided to DIY my costume, so I found an inspiration online and then made this: My little one helped some parts of it, like coloring it and using the glue gun to ...
This is the second part of the previous idea: 31: Retail is not really dead – Part One First, I would like to mention that I recently found an idea I had in 2014, which was ...
First, 32 was still in a draft, discussing an idea about retail, extended from 31: Retail is not really dead – Part One. Therefore, this is really 33. I will publish 32 later. Second, I have ...
My child wanted a hula hoop. You have no idea how hard to find such a thing. We went to 2 Walmart, 2 Targets, and 1 Fred Meyer. There was nowhere to find. Both Walmart ...
This is not a typical Sunday, when usually the family will drive the car to do grocery shopping or spend some time in a mall or in a park. Interestingly, we decided to do something ...
We watched the movie Yesterday the other day. It’s definitely an interesting movie with a fresh idea. However, I feel something is missing in the movie, but I couldn’t tell right away, so I went ...
Background Last year, my little one and I went to a farm for u-pick apples. In both of our memory, it was fantastic, especially the food. I even remember telling a friend that I usually ...
In the last few months, my family visited a few places and lived in a hotel, an inn, and a cottage. They all had different experience when we were there. I will elaborate what I ...
I have been a Strava user for over 5 years. Not a paid user though. So I do not know if it is really a missing feature, because it may already be one of the ...
Moving Planner Recently just finished a move, about 30 miles. Moving is really exhausting. I told my new neighbor that I wished there were a profession called moving planner. Why not? There is wedding planner. ...
Here is a simple question: when people talk about smart home for the future, where is smart toilet? So I Google Smart Toilet, unfortunately, I felt totally let down. Sure, those fancy warming seats, water ...
In the last couple weeks, I have been very busy in preparing moving to a different place. All documents are done, and we have started moving stuff over. Last 2 weeks, almost every day I ...
This morning when I was running out there, I finally reach out this idea: I need to write my own Kusto Query Explorer, because this thing is terrible. It is extremely painful to watch someone ...
Prime day is over. I actually cancelled my Prime member quite a while ago. I still buy stuff from Amazon, occasionally, but I don’t buy because it’s a specific sale for members only, or because ...
In part one, I came out with the idea of building a simple training model for making important financial decision. Later I rejected my own idea, because we can’t make financial related decision purely using ...
Background A friend put his cat on life-support for over $10,000. And his cat survived after nearly 2 months. Amazing story, but an debatable decision, as he still carries student loan, pays rent, and still ...
I started with “A device that changes your mood”. And then I paused a while. It sounds like a medical device and may even feel a little deceiving, so I later change it to “A ...