Elizabeth Tai
Elizabeth Tai
Elizabeth Tai
Elizabeth Tai writes about the Indieweb, knowledge management and anything she’s obsessed about Welcome to my digital garden.
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“But I already have a website on Substack,” you argue. No, no, Substack is just a distribution tool to amplify your website. It should not be your digital home. In the last few years, I’ve noticed a pattern of writers leaving their...
Welcome to my Linkblog where I share interesting articles and blog posts I found about social media, Indieweb, geopolitics, Chinese and Malaysian stuff, cute cat videos or anything funny and interesting I find online. FYI: I also share...
Deepseek is pretty amazing. I made 22 API calls yesterday and I have spent….$0.005. Granted my use case is extremely simple, just some simple data work, extracting and shuffling data from a csv file to create a directory page on a...
Now, a caveat before I go on. There’s a common narrative on left-leaning US-dominated social media that there’s a concerted effort by Beijing to stamp out native languages. This interpretation is false and propaganda, and this writer is...
Sometimes, I get frustrated with the writing community. I’ll casually post something about using AI for writing, and almost immediately, someone would drop a rude comment without finding out how I use AI to write! They immediately jump...
My choice of paid AI is probably strange to most … besides Gemini, which is assigned to me at work (meaning, work pays for it), I’m personally paying for … Mistral. Mistral is seen as Europe’s leading AI service alternative to US...
I created an LLM ‘literature professor’ who discusses stories with me after I finish a tale from Pu Songling’s Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (or Tales of the Liaozhai), using the 2006 Penguin translation by John Minford. As I read...
Realised I’ve not updated my “now” status in a long, long while. Right now, geographically, I’m in Penang, the island where I was born. My ancestors have been here for more than a century. Sometimes I feel that the island calls to my...
Welcome to my Linkblog where I share interesting articles and blog posts I found about social media, Indieweb, geopolitics, Chinese and Malaysian stuff, cute cat videos or anything funny and interesting I find online. FYI: I also share...
Efficiency and clarity are the bread and butter of UX writing, but often our own internal processes are the messiest part of the job. I’d like to share a UX copy review process that I’ve adapted from Dr Katharina Grimm, a UX writer who...
Malaysian secondary history classes have changed so much, so I am not sure what is being studied now. But during my time, we studied the history of Malaysia (of course), world history, which includes Islamic civilisations, Asia, Europe,...
Welcome to my Linkblog where I share interesting articles and blog posts I found about social media, Indieweb, geopolitics, Chinese and Malaysian stuff, cute cat videos or anything funny and interesting I find online. FYI: I also share...
Another day, another storm in the writing community teacup! The storm, this New York Times article: The New Fabio is Claude TL;DR: Coral Hart uses AI to generate 200 books a year. This has made many writers mad, mad, mad. (Somewhere in a...
I’ve been using my Mastodon account as a way to share various links around the web that I found. However, social media can be ephmeral, so I thought I will consolidate what I share here in Linkblog issues. I like curating articles and...
In a digital world often defined by outrage, impatience, and keyboard warriors, Matt Chung stands out: not for being loud, but for choosing kindness. By day, Matt focuses on RubyCoded, a company he co-founded together with his friend,...