17: A comics about a cat adventurer
I was watching secret life of pets 2 with my kid in the movie theater, and then I suddenly had this idea: I want to draw a comics about a cat adventurer. I always want ...
16: Interview for a city leader
This is part 2 of my previous idea, 15th: Running a country is the same to running a big corporation The more I think about it, the more puzzled I become: Why can’t a city ...
15: Running a country is the same to running a big corporation
First, before exploring this idea, I would like to invite people to watch this video: In this video, Graham describes an example of the bridge at the campus took a few years to finish the ...
14: Reading other people’s code will always be a bad user experience
First, my bold statement is this: reading other people’s code will always be a bad user experience. The reason is simple: code readability is mostly subjective. In year 2000, I had to set up Mailman for ...
13: Hunter’s Feeder for cats and dogs
I have a Siberian cat. She is beautiful, but like most other cats, she is a pain sometimes. For example, she refuses to eat wet food, unless I hold the wet food in my hands. ...
12: Another way to buy used cars and more
Here is this week’s idea: why are all websites sells used cars the same? They all have something like this: They all have this kind of control for the users to filter what they want. ...
11: Street Food and Thoughts on Homeless Crisis
Street Food I watched a few episodes of Street Food on Netflix. Very interesting to watch. I recommend it. I grew up with eating street food. After doing dumb things (like doing karaoke, playing Mahjong ...
10th: How cars talk to each other?
I came out with this idea while driving the other day. The car ahead of me drove me crazy that day: It did not close the gas cap, so the cover was dangling, very uncomfortable ...
9th: The Honesty Game – Part Two – the support and punishment social system
This is the part two of 8th: The Honesty Game – Part One – the game Part one discussed a gaming system relies on aggregating social data from the player to grow the game character. It ...
8th: The Honesty Game – Part One – the game
This week I am off, so I decide to probably post 2 ideas, which actually source from the same origin. This is the part one and part two is coming shortly. In 2012 after I ...
7th: Can kids write a book?
I want to say the answer is definitely yes. Totally biased opinion: I can’t describe how creative my little one can be. She is truly remarkable. The other day, I told her I will be ...
6th: House hunting with matching furnitures
We have been house hunting lately, because I am about to switch job, hopefully we can move to somewhere in the middle of where my wife works and where I work. If we stay where ...
5th: Save my car
This is one of my old ideas. In a nutshell, it’s like Uber of roadside assistance. I once experienced a dead battery on a highway. After I called my roadside assistance service, who generally dispatched ...
4th: My idea of presenting functional programming
Today I want to talk about programming, particularly, programming paradigm. A quick background I spent a year learning and writing Scala, which is a fascinating language. But I could not get my head around why ...
3rd: A painting in my dream
Only the 3rd idea in my journey, and I missed the date. Initially, I planned the posting would always happen in Friday, so it would not interfere with my weekend activities. I guess I should ...
2nd: An App just pretends interacting with you
Ever since I decided to have this 1000 unrelated (aka useless) ideas, I was really looking forward to it. But then when Thursday comes, since I need to put one up on Friday, I get ...
1st Idea: 1000 unrelated ideas
For years I have been trying to write a blog. However, I was never able to find a topic and stick to it. Sometimes I want to write about coding as that is really primary ...
A simple question: how do I execute a command every minute?
This sounds like a trivial question, using a Timer of course. However, here is a caveat: whenever the timer starts, we want the command to happen exactly at the beginning of a new minute. This ...
The difference between Immutable and Readonly Data Structure
Persistent Data Structure A persistent data structure is referred to a data structure whose underlying structure cannot be modified. Every modification will result in a new instance of the type with the updated values. In ...