About

This journal micro-blog is my working log: short notes on what I’m learning, building, and debugging. It’s meant to be searchable, linkable, and useful to future-me — a brain log of things I don’t want to forget.

This is where the messy, in-progress thinking lives. If something grows into a proper guide or essay, it graduates to my main site.

What you'll find here

Notes — short lessons, reminders, and observations.
Links — “bookmark + takeaway” so I can find the good stuff later.
Snippets — small code fragments with context.
Devlogs — progress notes, decisions, and next steps for projects.

Links will have an arrow-out icon beside it to imply it’s linking out to an external link.

Topic System

All my notes are organized with two taxonomies:

Domain (e.g. Docker, WordPress, Linux, …)

Topic (e.g. Performance, DNS, Caching, …)

You’ll see them displayed as: Domain//Topic when you click into the notes. This is to facilitate easy filtering and searching.

What this isn't

This isn’t a polished blog. It’s closer to a notebook. It’s designed to be minimal, fast, and updated whenever there’s something worth keeping.

Where the long form posts go

If you’re looking for more complete writeups, tutorials, or case studies, those live on my main blog: alsonkaw.com