Written to remember,
kept to retrieve.

I'm Chiu, a software engineer who likes learning for its own sake — not only the technical stuff, but mindset and meaning: the things that help me navigate myself better. The way I see it, steering a life works like steering a language model — to build something great, you first have to know what you actually want to build. To get what you want, you have to know what you really need, and what you desire.

These notes used to live in Notion. Writing them was easy; finding them again was not — a half-remembered idea, a specific quote, always harder to retrieve than it should have been.

Noteblog is the answer: plain Markdown files with real metadata, organized by category and searchable by the things worth remembering. And it is built deliberately as something a language model can navigate too — not just a place to write, but a substrate to be read, indexed, and asked.

Two kinds of notes share the shelf: engineering notes — tools, systems, and the craft of building software — and notes from the pursuit of wisdom: books, podcasts, and ideas about how to live. Most are public; a few are kept private behind a password.

Finding a note again is only the first step. The longer ambition is to have these notes summarized, connected, and asked — a notebook that answers questions instead of merely holding them. We'll see.