Random Thoughts

Tiny updates, sharp observations, and half-formed ideas. This page moves faster than the blog.

February 10, 2026

With vibe coding, I migrated my personal site from Hugo to Astro in just one afternoon, quickly reproducing key Hugo + PaperMod features like TOC, tags, and draft handling. It felt like a one-click, painless switch.

#Hugo Astro Migration#vibe coding

February 10, 2026

While trying to run `Qwen3-ASR-0.6B` with OpenVINO, I found an extremely high transcription error rate on laptop-mic recordings. After multiple A/B tests with controlled variables, I confirmed the root cause was not low microphone audio quality, but an issue introduced during OpenVINO model conversion that significantly degraded transcription accuracy.

#asr#openvino#model conversion#qwen3-asr

February 8, 2026

Small daily loops beat big occasional sprints. Tiny shipped improvements compound faster than perfect plans.

#process#shipping

February 7, 2026

A surprising amount of UX is latency management: if the wait cannot disappear, make the intent obvious.

#ux#product

February 5, 2026

Write the note before picking the tool. Clarity in the sentence usually removes half the implementation.

#writing#engineering