2026·04·14
Alex Hsu
Indie developer, AI music miner, aspiring writer, ADHD.
Documenting my journey of personal growth and the pursuit of simplicity.
Projects
MARU Japanese Learning App
An iOS app for learning Japanese with over 1 million downloads
You Don't Procrastinate in Video Games
A book I'm writing about applying gaming wisdom to real life
1440 Time Planner
Think of your day as 1440 minutes and plan your ideal routine
lofi jazz stories
A collection of lofi jazz tracks I curated using Suno AI
My Writing
2026·04·13
Should a blog have a comments section?
2026·04·11
How many blog posts do I have left?
2026·04·10
Your RSS posts might only live half as long as everyone else's
2026·04·09
Auto-spacing between Chinese and English text with CSS
2026·04·07
Game Mindset: Unexplored maps only light up when you walk through them
2026·04·03
I bought a $100 book from Paul Millerd
2026·04·02
Going to the gym to listen to podcasts
2026·03·31
What does level 99 even mean
2026·03·30
A day of catching up on sleep and doing nothing
2026·03·27
The ideal day: making every 1440 minutes count
2026·03·25
The art of decluttering your investments
2026·03·24
Long time no see, my good friend Trump
2026·03·15
The ideal way to be sick
2026·03·09
Frieren's prerequisite for slacking off
2026·03·08
My psychedelic truffle experience in Amsterdam
2026·03·07
Diagnosed with ADHD at 35
2026·03·05
Chasing labels and the need to be smart
2026·02·23
How to sequence an album when you know nothing about music
2026·02·21
BlogBlog Party (March 2026): Perfect days
2026·02·20
Game Mindset: Gear has level requirements
2026·02·19
Slash boy
2026·02·18
On-demand blind box music
2026·02·13
Shiny object syndrome is a superpower
2026·02·09
Language learning is risk diversification
2026·02·05
No sword beats having a sword
2026·02·04
Please like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell
2026·02·03
Bedtime brainstorming I can't turn off
2026·02·01
My first YouTube video
2026·01·22
I still can't find the meaning of life
2026·01·15
Are you drinking the water or the cup?
2026·01·14
Game Mindset: Unlock waypoints first
2026·01·13
Should I self-publish a physical book in Taiwan? Or just go digital?
2026·01·07
Math rock: music where protagonists die without warning
2026·01·05
Game Mindset: Only play games in full-screen mode
2026·01·02
Maybe you're not afraid to start
2026·01·01
Don't wait for new year to be happy
2025·12·27
Game Mindset: Discover your main quest by playing
2025·12·25
Game Mindset: It gets easier after a few tries
2025·12·24
A lifetime of content I'll never finish
2025·12·21
30 questions to ask yourself every year
2025·12·20
After working at Meta, I deleted social media
2025·12·19
Game mindset: Make decisions from a third-person perspective
2025·12·18
How to choose a good domain name
2025·12·17
Game Mindset: Bad luck? Just grind longer
2025·12·16
Want to start a blog? Write first
2025·12·15
Game Mindset: When the game updates, change your strategy
2025·12·12
Game Mindset: Save often
2025·12·09
How an engineer dad picks baby names
2025·12·06
12 life principles I learned from Derek Sivers
2025·12·03
Play less games, play more life
2025·11·25
Game Mindset: Don't just stay in the safe zone
2025·11·23
I like to read books liked by authors whose books I like
2025·11·22
Take notes while reading, not after
2025·11·20
Game Mindset: Good games don't require suffering
2025·11·19
Game Mindset: Attribute and skill points are limited
2025·11·17
Game Mindset: Every side quest might unlock a new map
2025·11·15
Why are games more fun than real life?
2025·11·14
Game Mindset: Buy only useful equipment
2025·11·12
After writing daily for a month, what happened?
2025·11·07
Game Mindset: Return to town when your HP is low
2025·11·06
Coco: My grandma's tiger is OP
2025·11·05
Game Mindset: You're not bad, you're just underleveled
2025·11·04
Game Mindset: Just respawn and try again
2025·11·03
10x productivity, 10x anxiety
2025·11·02
To be a writer, you must first become an influencer
2025·10·30
Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms
2025·10·29
Game Mindset: Watching others fight monsters gives no experience
2025·10·28
You don't trust science that much
2025·10·27
Don't bring ChatGPT to a fight
2025·10·26
Breaking your streak on purpose
2025·10·24
Game Mindset: You only get rewards when you kill the monster
2025·10·23
Game Mindset: Level 1 players fight level 1 monsters
2025·10·22
Easy games are not fun
2025·10·21
Pretty Number Syndrome
2025·10·20
People change
2025·10·19
I secretly started posting daily
2025·10·18
Why I'm still writing iOS apps
2025·10·17
The square I don't want to join
2025·10·16
Maybe you're not the protagonist
2025·10·15
I want to be a writer
2025·10·14
Explore, but also maintain
2025·10·13
Prioritizing Chinese
2025·09·22
How to prioritize what inspires you
2025·09·13
I don't need this year's iPhone - Guided meditation
2025·09·07
What Singapore's postal code taught me
2025·09·02
The muggle who refuses magic
2025·08·29
Why I only wear black and Uniqlo
2025·08·23
Voting for a world without ads
2025·08·09
Stop letting the algorithms decide what I listen to
2025·07·11
Vibe coding is a slot machine
2025·07·06
How to stand out when everyone can build an app
2025·07·05
The expiration date of ideas
2025·04·29
Perhaps we are all geniuses buried by the entertainment of the digital age
2025·03·20
Maintaining a multilingual blog is hard
2025·02·28
12 reasons why I chose Kuala Lumpur as my next home
2025·01·20
My simple approach to investing
2025·01·01
2025 goals as an indie developer
2024·08·01