Hi, I'm Lin. These are some of my writings and side projects.

Thoughts

Before it's finished—sometimes, the right time to publish
The Old Guard—imagination from days not long ago
Beginning to write—practice taking the first step

Chess

Blitz tactics—for playing fast-paced chess puzzles
NNUE training data—for training top Stockfish neural networks

Math visualizations

Cellular automata—emergent behaviors from simple computing rules
Burning ship fractal—exploring an unusual twist on the Mandelbrot set
Mandlebrot set—one of the most famous fractals in mathematics

Text terminals

Bash prompt generator—easily customize bash prompt colors
Zsh prompt generator—easily customize zsh prompt colors
SSH tunnels—example commands for securely forwarding TCP traffic
Xterm 256 colors—reference for using xterm color codes

Misc pages

Reversing myopia—notes from a long-term experiment in eyesight improvement
Drawing with LLMs—creating vector illustrations with language models
Past projects—a few mini games, mostly unmaintained pages

Traditional art

Elsewhere