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I'm Yixuan, a software engineer based in London. I build with AI and enjoy understanding why things work, not just that they do. Getting things right matters to me — in the code, and in the experience around it.
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Building a Photo Gallery from Scratch with Astro, Cloudflare R2, and Claude
The architecture and trade-offs behind this site's gallery: photos in Cloudflare R2, metadata in git, resizing at the edge, WAF rules against abuse, and a UI designed with Claude.
Rebuilding My Website with Astro
Why I stopped trying to pixel-perfectly resurrect my dead Gatsby blog, and built this site on top of AstroPaper instead, with a few opinionated touches of my own.