希腊之旅2：古典时期
走完克里特和迈锡尼文明，这次我们这次回到雅典，游览卫城和广场，看黄金时代的希腊人是如何生活。来之前我对希腊的理解大概是雅典为主的民主城邦，诞生了苏格拉底这样的哲学家。但旅途中文物景点都反复提及时代，有了点细化的理解。
Incfly Thoughts
Thoughts, stories and ideas.
希腊之旅1：克里特和迈锡尼文明
希腊旅游归来，从克里特、迈锡尼、古典时期的希腊，几千年的历史，不一样性格的文明。这一篇我们专注于克里特和迈锡尼文明。
2026-02 Chinese Immigrants in California
Recently, while preparing for a topic on Chinese culture and the Lunar New Year, I researched the history of early Chinese immigrants. I learned so much that I felt compelled to document and share these stories more broadly.
Database + Queue: Getting the Semantics Right
We often have a pattern of database writes combined with a message queue. But ensuring correctness is hard.
2026-01 mushroom walk with MSSF
Mushroom walk with MSSF foraging activity, I didn't find anything edible, others found some chantereles and black trumpet on the way back. but a fun event and a nice place to hike!
2025-12 Hawaii Kilauea Volcano Eruption
Hawaii Big Island Kilauea volcano has been periodically erupt for a year since 2024. We made a last minute to go after the eruption. The rarity to see a geological move, to see experience a lava dance from distance safely, is so fulfilling. This is a lifetime experience.
2025-11 Lanzarote
西北非的一个离岸小岛，从天空上的看下去，荒山曼地，寸草不生，被造物主遗弃的火山岛。怎么都没想到，lanzorote，会这么惊喜、迷人。
Parallelize ClickHouse aggregation merge for fixed hash map
The idea is simple but learned a lot of ClickHouse aggregation, so want to jot it down.
读《树上的男爵》
第一次读可能是接近十年以前，印象不深，这次重新捡起来说来也巧。老舍的《骆驼祥子》看了一半都很纳闷：就这，为什么是经典？和当语文老师的我妈交流，她说的倒很潇洒，很正常现代中国文学好东西不多。然后就把这本重新捡起来看了。
2025-09-07 sf botanical garden visit
Visited SF botanical garden for reaping off the benefits of memership. Lots of findings!
2025-09-09 foster city dawn bird watching
只有看过之后才发现这么种类细节
Dec 2024 trip Maui
去年12月去的夏威夷茂伊岛，这篇真的拖的太久了，赶紧整理一下。
Cilium in EKS and VPC peering
I recently need to setup VPC peering across different EKS clusters. We use Cilium with routing-mode: native. When debugging connectivity issue I refreshed my understanding of how Cilium work in EKS and what needs to be configured in our cases.
2025-08-24 Rodeo Beach Hike
We went to Rodeo Beach area and hiked along the costal trail loop. Along 5 miles trail landscape started from lagoon and beach, changed to hills over sea view, and merged in the foggy ridge trails. It's wonderful place with lots of birds near lagoon. And we ev
2025-07 Seattle Wastewater treatment tour
When traveling in Seattle recently, I had an opportunity to tour wastewater treatment at King County west point site. The tour is informative and well-organized. After the tour, I got much more understanding the complexity of an often taken for granted aspect
2025 Seattle Visit, Museum of Flight, Wright Brothers Story
We visited Musuem of Flight July 29, 2025. Luckily a public free tour guide was available by then and it was a wonderful experience. This post is focused on Wright Brothers story. While everyone knows their success, the narrative is so personal and approchable
eBPF LRU map cache trashing
A interesting exploration of eBPF LRU map
2025-05 Scotland Highland
A trip to UK Scotland highland in a day trip. Very rewarding.
2025-04 Golden Gate Botanical Garden Visit
SF botanical garden visiting notes.
2025-04 湾区GNGT闲逛
这周末去南湾看了两个加州本地植物的花园，一个叫GNGT的活动。
全球通史 下
最近旅途路上看完了这本《全球通史 下》，非常推荐。好的历史书要解决两个任务：清晰的叙述历史本身, what happened; 和有立场观点的解读，而不是让历史成为冗长的细节堆砌。全球通史完美的做到了这一点。
2025-01 国家博物馆游记
这次回去，取道北京，看了国博，略记一二
2024-11-17 El Corte de Madera Creek
Afternoon hike in the park.
Readings about load balancing
Starting from eBPF use case, saw this CloudFlare Unimog Blog, a L4 TCP load balancer. Unimog solves very similar issue as I did in ClickHouse.