A personal website about mobile engineering, trading systems and a decade of chasing dreams.https://henryquan.github.io/en-auhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2026-05-30-funny/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2026-05-30-funny/2020 | This idea was already there just after my graduation. COVID wasn't exactly the best time to find a graduate job. While hunting for opportunity, I spent my free time experimenting with new ideas I never had time during Uni. Pazusoba was born during this phrase, aloneside ma…Fri, 29 May 2026 23:00:00 GMTreminiscencetradingdreammeditationhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2026-04-12-tragic-hero/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2026-04-12-tragic-hero/悲情英雄者，非天命所鍾之人，亦非萬勝無傷之士。其人未必聰絕天下，未必勢壓群雄，未必得時，未必得勢，亦未必為世所知。然其可貴者，不在其命佳，不在其途順，而在其歷盡摧折之後，猶能整其殘甲，斂其舊傷，向無常之地，再進一寸。 恒本庸人，久困迷途。少懷大志，欲以微末之身，叩問市場之門，窺變化之一隙。然天機幽遠，人智有限，數年之間，屢戰屢敗，屢起屢仆。每見所求不得，則疑己道之非；每逢所願成空，則恨天時之薄。志氣消磨於長夜，心神困頓於成敗，四顧茫然，不知所歸。 始則以為，世之難者，在外；敵之強者，在彼。故常欲以術勝市，以智奪機，以一念之明，壓萬變之勢。及至夢碎數回，前…Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMTreminiscencetradingdreamprogrammingmeditationhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2026-01-01-the-dawn/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2026-01-01-the-dawn/This one isn't polished, and maybe not complete — but here it is anyway. Kindness, warmth and love, no matter how tiny they might be, can reach a broken soul in its faraway night, becoming the first dawn after endless darkness. I truly wished the past decade could be better, fill…Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:00:00 GMTmeditationupdatereminiscencehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-12-06-the-end-of-crisis/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-12-06-the-end-of-crisis/This one isn't polished, and maybe not complete — but here it is anyway. My greatest life crisis ended last month. Maybe, it was that 11 hour train ride without Internet and charger. Or the 2 hour walk from St Kilda to Melbourne port, I don't know. I only noticed when I returned…Sat, 06 Dec 2025 09:30:00 GMTreminiscencemeditationtradinginfphttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-11-22-overcome-meaning/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-11-22-overcome-meaning/As an INFP, I have spent many years fighting with the idea of meaning, needing it deeply, yet also feeling that there might be no inherent meaning at all. This contradiction left me confused. The question is, how do you live your life when meaning feels both essential and impossi…Sat, 22 Nov 2025 09:00:00 GMTmeditationtradinginfphttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-11-09-whats-next/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-11-09-whats-next/I have to admit that two of my recent posts feel somewhat repetitive and lower quality compared to The Loser's Dream, but I was in the mood and crying while writing it. After getting back from Tassie late Monday, I finished implementing my stock picker on Tuesday. And now... I ho…Sun, 09 Nov 2025 02:00:00 GMTmeditationreminiscencehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-11-08-chase-the-dream/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-11-08-chase-the-dream/Lately, I have been getting too emotional for no reason. Today, I just want to look back on my life, from my days in Singapore until now, as a dream chaser. You may ask, bro what's wrong with you? Didn’t you just say yesterday, no dreams, let go? Well yeah, that's true, but it do…Sat, 08 Nov 2025 04:00:00 GMTmeditationtradingdreamreminiscenceprogramminghttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-11-07-decade-late-reconciliation/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-11-07-decade-late-reconciliation/Last week, I took an 11 hour train to Melbourne with no chargers, little reception, but lots of time. The fun game on my laptop only lasted for 3 hours before running out of battery, so I spent the rest of the time thinking about my entire life. Where did it go wrong? Everything…Fri, 07 Nov 2025 09:00:00 GMTmeditationtradingdreamreminiscenceprogramminghttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-10-11-losers-dream/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-10-11-losers-dream/2025 is ending so quickly, just like every year, but somehow, this year feels a bit different. If you already know something would turn out, what would you do? Just like we all share the same end, one day fading from the world, forgotten by all, but does this mean our memories, o…Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:00:00 GMTmeditationtradingdreamhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-06-05-think-about-itmaybe/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-06-05-think-about-itmaybe/It should be time to continue with working on my model after the long break since Feburary. Many things had happened, but I don't have time to record everything. My friends and brothers are going home. This is a common issue with people like us, the insecure and instability. Howe…Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:50:00 GMTmeditationreminiscencetradinghttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-04-19-japan/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-04-19-japan/Last Sunday, we landed in Tokyo, and this is my fourth trip there. I'm sure there will be more in the future. Every single time I'm here, I ask if I went to the right place. If I took the same path 10 years ago, would I be happier if I went to Japan instead of Australia? Long bef…Sat, 19 Apr 2025 09:15:00 GMTjapantripreminiscenceryutatradinghttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-03-09-bazzite-on-win4/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-03-09-bazzite-on-win4/Bazzite is like an open-source version of the Steam OS, I mean it is based on Linux with Proton. This becomes like a reason why I should be using Linux in 2025, it works very nicely for almost any AMD GPU. It is Linux, so things should just work without anything, but this does re…Sun, 09 Mar 2025 05:20:00 GMTmeditationGPDgamehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-01-11-funny-happy-2025/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-01-11-funny-happy-2025/It has been only 11 days, and what should I say about it? It is already over. I guess I should work hard next year in 2026, haha. Nah, I'm just kidding. 2025 has been great so far, but already with many ups and downs. On the first day in 2025, I had a major breakthrough in my tra…Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:40:00 GMTmeditationtradingprogrammingbaristahttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-01-01-for-2025/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2025-01-01-for-2025/2024 has ended just like that before you realise it. It is challenging to say whether it was good or bad overall. All my goals sort of fail, but other things are coming together. Like the market, unknowns await everyone in this new year, the beginning of a new cycle... In the pas…Tue, 31 Dec 2024 23:00:00 GMTreminiscencemeditationtradingprogrammingbaristahttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-12-15-cycle-is-allyouneed/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-12-15-cycle-is-allyouneed/The world is almost like repeating itself, many things had happened in the past, and they are happening again, like a cycle. What is a cycle? Cycle is a circle, a continuous loop, a spiral and never-ending. Usually, it could contain at least two sides highlighting the duality nat…Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:55:00 GMTtradingmeditationhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-12-11-project-naive-new-chapter/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-12-11-project-naive-new-chapter/This will be a new chapter of Project NAÏVE. I have updated the I to Ï in NAIVE, and it looks perfect highlighting the balance of both sides. It will be a long journey from now on, this project won't be easy, and its destiny is nothing but failure. However, if we will fail no mat…Wed, 11 Dec 2024 07:20:00 GMTchristmastradingmeditationpazusobareminiscencehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-12-06-christmas-mode/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-12-06-christmas-mode/Well, it is almost Christmas again, but Christmas in Summer has always been strange to me. It almost feels like living in another world, but anyway, probably since last month, I was already in Christmas mode, so I become like little brain or even a no brainer. Time to rest, but j…Fri, 06 Dec 2024 09:30:00 GMTchristmasholidaytradinghttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-11-30-gpd-win-mini/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-11-30-gpd-win-mini/I have been wanting this little machine for quite a while, it is not I don't like my Win 4, but you know I just want something new and better. This is now my 4th or 5th I should say GPD device. Maybe, they have a bad marketing strategy, but they always have the best Windows handh…Sat, 30 Nov 2024 04:00:00 GMTreviewGPDgameretrohttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-11-23-goal-meaning-happiness/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-11-23-goal-meaning-happiness/2024 is ending soon with only a month left. Last month, I wrote quite a lot about meaning and happiness. Today, I just want to extend a bit... and you know, just write some more nonsense before December. Life has been relaxing since I could finally let go of my goals temporarily,…Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:15:00 GMTmeditationhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-10-27-whats-next/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-10-27-whats-next/October is ending soon, and I only have two months left for this year. I had three major goals for this year, but like what I said earlier this year, they are more like guidelines. For sure, I have worked on them, but the outcome doesn't match my expectations. Well, it isn't a ba…Sun, 27 Oct 2024 08:30:00 GMTmeditationupdatewowsinfoaitradinghttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-10-25-why-unhappy/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-10-25-why-unhappy/Last Saturday, I wrote some thoughts on why I can be happy without meaning. Today, I just have some quick thoughts on why I was unhappy in the past. When I was a little tiny kid, I was definitely happy because I simply had no idea what was happening, just playing around without p…Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:00:00 GMTmeditationhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-10-16-happy-without-meaning/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-10-16-happy-without-meaning/From late 2020 until now 2024, my perspectives have changed over time, especially in 2023 when I started trading and had my most significant failure. However, things have changed again just two months ago... Before I start, I want to mention that there is never a better way or ri…Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTmeditationhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-10-08-flutter-kotlin-react-native/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-10-08-flutter-kotlin-react-native/I want to expand a bit more on my previous comment, but first, we have to go back to late 2016... when I started developing WoWs Info using Swift 2. Read more in details here about the overall timeline. Skip to Kotlin if not interested in the rest. React Native, Xamarin, Flutter…Tue, 08 Oct 2024 04:15:00 GMTappflutterreactnativekotlinhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-08-31-august-bondi/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-08-31-august-bondi/Today is the last day of August, and as Sydney is getting warmer, it feels as though the harsh winter has passed. Last August, I experienced a devastating strike in my trading career, but now, I view that moment as a new beginning. More pieces of my life are coming together, and…Sat, 31 Aug 2024 05:20:00 GMTreminiscencesydneymeditationtradinghttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-07-13-surface-pro-copilot/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-07-13-surface-pro-copilot/The long wait is finally over. After 2 years, Qualcomm finally delivered what they promised, but did they? I have seen mostly negative comments on this new chip, X Elite. The price is also ridiculous at 2.7K AUD with the keyboard and pen, it will cost over 3k AUD. This is on bar…Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:50:00 GMTreviewsurfacepromicrosoftqualcommhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-06-08-recollection-that-day/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-06-08-recollection-that-day/June 8th has always been an important day for me since 2014. I have mentioned this multiple times previously in pazusoba. This is a significant turning point for me that is before August last year. Many things are coming back to me starting in 2023. It has been the 10th year for…Sat, 08 Jun 2024 09:00:00 GMTsingaporereminiscenceryutahttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-06-03-people-matters/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-06-03-people-matters/After my previous recollection, I want to spend more time emphasizing the importance of people because I was mostly focusing on myself last time. Many previous posts mentioned that my life had significant changes since the day I went to Singapore, and how it had to be that way du…Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:30:00 GMTmeditationsingaporereminiscencewowsinfohttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-05-31-new-wave-trading/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-05-31-new-wave-trading/The name of this project is the best I have ever given. In the past, I always named my projects exactly what they did, but this time, NAIVE tells you nothing about trading. The name has a few meanings, the fact that I am naive, even a naive system can profit and keep things strai…Fri, 31 May 2024 11:00:00 GMTtradingmeditationappupdatehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-05-26-recollection-turning-point-trading/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-05-26-recollection-turning-point-trading/Just before June 2023, my broker account went up from -20% to 170% while I was sleeping. Ultimately, I was lucky and was riding on top of this AI bubble. However, I had zero idea at that moment, not until late August last year. The beginning was January 2023, and my first win was…Sun, 26 May 2024 03:40:00 GMTtradingreminiscencetradinghttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-04-25-lossless-scaling-frame-generation/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-04-25-lossless-scaling-frame-generation/Lossless Scaling is a STEAM app I have been using for over 350 hours. Its primary usage is to scale the game to full screen. You might wonder why not just go fullscreen directly. Well, it is possible, but the overall playtime will be reduced significantly. Scaling reduces GPU loa…Thu, 25 Apr 2024 05:40:00 GMTgamehandheldsteamGPDhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-01-27-a-year-of-trading/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-01-27-a-year-of-trading/This one isn't polished, and maybe not complete — but here it is anyway. This week concludes my first year of trading. I achieved my goal of 100% gain, but couldn't keep it. Well, life is always full of regrets, and it doesn't matter if I add one more to it. However, what's more…Sat, 27 Jan 2024 08:30:00 GMTmeditationreminiscencetradinghttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-01-21-daily-automation/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-01-21-daily-automation/I really want to write about my first year of trading since it is ending soon next week. However, I guess I will leave it to next Weekend. As I said in my previous post, I will probably lose a lot. That's why today, I want to talk about something different, and it is my automatio…Sun, 21 Jan 2024 11:15:00 GMTautomationprogramminggithubhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-01-20-utm-trollstore/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-01-20-utm-trollstore/More than two years old, I wrote regarding UTM on iPad and my vision for iPad OS. Thanks to Apple for doing almost nothing interesting for the iPad. My iPad Pro had eaten too much dust and kept on iPad OS 16.2. Finally, TrollStore supported iOS and iPad OS 16. With that, I can ru…Sat, 20 Jan 2024 10:30:00 GMTmeditationutmipadApplehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-01-14-red-magic-9pro/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-01-14-red-magic-9pro/The moment I saw this brick phone, I wanted to get one. See this for the specs. It uses the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 with a built-in cooling fan. This means that it can run at a higher frequency much longer and may even sustain it indefinitely as long as the battery lasts. It ha…Sun, 14 Jan 2024 08:30:00 GMTreviewandroidgameretrohttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-01-13-moonlight-sunshine/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-01-13-moonlight-sunshine/Two years ago, I wrote about Moonlight once. Originally, I wanted to share more about things like this on my blog. Something lighter and fun. I guess in the end, I wrote too much nonsense instead. Anyway, I want to bring an update to game streaming today. Moonlight is still and p…Sat, 13 Jan 2024 08:30:00 GMTmoonlightgamestreaminghttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-01-07-2024-a-warm-welcome/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2024-01-07-2024-a-warm-welcome/It has been only a week, and there were so many crazy things happening within this week. I don't know, I feel like it is going to be a "great" year. My account has dropped almost 5% the first trading day in 2024. I thought I was going to -10% in the first week. That's also not ba…Sun, 07 Jan 2024 09:30:00 GMTmeditationtradinghttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-12-30-programming-trading-past-regrets/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-12-30-programming-trading-past-regrets/In February, I went back to Singapore to revisit my past life, and it was where I started programming 10 years ago. In April, I was back in my motherland ever since the pandemic started, and it was the place where I spent my childhood. In July, it was my third visit to Japan to m…Sat, 30 Dec 2023 12:30:00 GMTtradingProgrammingmeditationreminiscencehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-07-22-adventure-in-kyoto-2018/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-07-22-adventure-in-kyoto-2018/This one isn't polished, and maybe not complete — but here it is anyway. The year was 2018, and I was a second year COMP student at UNSW. At the time, I was taking Japanese courses, but I couldn't take Japanese 1B due to my schedule. During one tutorial, my Japanese sensei told m…Sat, 22 Jul 2023 04:49:00 GMTjapantripreminiscencehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-06-24-wows-info-update/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-06-24-wows-info-update/WoWs Info is an important chapter in my life. I started the development in early February 2017 during my uni life. At some point, I put too much time and effort into it and ended up failing multiple courses at UNSW. It was responsibility, I had to be responsible for my users. May…Fri, 23 Jun 2023 23:15:00 GMTupdatewowsinfoappunswreactnativehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-06-23-cp8/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-06-23-cp8/It was late September 2015 when I came to Sydney for my Foundation Studies at UNSW, and my class was called CP8. It has been almost 8 years, I never realise how fast time goes. After the event in Singapore, I went back to motherland for a while and even went to the US with my mot…Fri, 23 Jun 2023 11:45:00 GMTreminiscencecp8unswgithubhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-05-28-my-journey-with-trading/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-05-28-my-journey-with-trading/This one was never finished and has been in draft for half a year. I am just making it public now, not checked or anything but you get the idea. I always wanted to try trading because my father is a trader, and it sounded very cool. He often tells me about his trading philosophy…Sat, 27 May 2023 23:45:00 GMTreminiscencetradingprogramminghttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-03-26-programming-ai-future/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-03-26-programming-ai-future/Last week, GPT-4 was announced. Then, we had the Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot X and even more AI powered tools. Funny that I was discussing whether my past ten years of programming was meaningful. It is fast how things change. Last time, I went to UNSW for the 30th anniversa…Sun, 26 Mar 2023 09:35:00 GMTprogrammingaireminiscenceunswgithubhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-02-25-one-month-of-trading/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-02-25-one-month-of-trading/Last month, I started trading. It has been a fun and engaging experience so far. I went from 5% to 15% in two days and down to -5% in less than two weeks. It really teaches me about the market and also about myself. I am trading US stocks with IKBR, and it is extremely challengin…Sat, 25 Feb 2023 09:30:00 GMTtradingprogramminghttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-02-20-back-in-singapore/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-02-20-back-in-singapore/After almost 8 years, I was back in Singapore earlier this month to celebrate my 10th year of programming. Also, I wanted to test a few things to prepare for my next Japan trip. A lot had happened, yet I was back again to face my past. The trip was sort of sudden, but I made up m…Mon, 20 Feb 2023 08:30:00 GMTsingaporetripreminiscenceprogrammingholidayhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-01-26-singapore-before-the-trip/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-01-26-singapore-before-the-trip/As the trip gets closer, my emotion towards Singapore grows stronger. My days in Singapore weren't the greatest, and it was rather miserable instead. For some reason, it always comes back, and I cannot forget about it. I spent most of my time in Singapore programming, and I rarel…Thu, 26 Jan 2023 06:07:14 GMTsingaporetripreminiscencemeditationryutahttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-01-07-goals-for-2023/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2023-01-07-goals-for-2023/This year, the theme is exploration. The first thing I want to do is learning JavaScript and Web Technologies. This is always my weak point because I refused to learn it. There must be a reason why they are so popular. That doesn't mean that I won't do native and mobile developme…Sat, 07 Jan 2023 05:37:29 GMTupdatehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-12-18-moving-to-hugo/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-12-18-moving-to-hugo/It has been half a year since my last post. To be honest, a lot has happened. We have Stable Diffusion generating great artworks within seconds & ChatGPT talking like a real human without knowing anything. AI is evolving fast, and if I don't keep up, I will be left behind. Jekyll…Sat, 17 Dec 2022 13:03:37 GMTupdatehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-05-23-wows-info-seven/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-05-23-wows-info-seven/Almost two years ago, I stopped the development of WoWs Info. I was tired and needed a break from it because I had mixed feelings about it. I haven't touched it ever since until last month when I got something important back thanks to a certain anime. How interesting life can be.…Mon, 23 May 2022 12:29:00 GMTwowsinfoappgithubhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-04-23-reminiscence-dream-late-2016/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-04-23-reminiscence-dream-late-2016/In late 2016, I got the idea of making an iOS app for World of Warships. It was a fun game, and I wanted to do something for it, just like what I did before. This is how my journey began... Making iOS apps was the reason why I started learning programming in the first place in ea…Sat, 23 Apr 2022 10:36:00 GMTreminiscencedream2016wowsinfounswhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-03-25-go-beyond/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-03-25-go-beyond/I had no idea what I was doing before I was in Singapore. Every day, I woke up and went to school to study but for what? I had no goals back then because all I needed to do was study and get good grades. Life in Singapore was truly memorable. I was doing crazy things, and I have…Fri, 25 Mar 2022 11:49:00 GMTmeditationsingaporereminiscenceunswhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-03-24-moonlight-game-streaming/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-03-24-moonlight-game-streaming/Game streaming is similar to video streaming, but it is interactive and controllable. This concept isn't new, and in fact, there are a few game streaming services available now. They are decent, but not all games are available. For me, I built my own machine to stream anything I…Thu, 24 Mar 2022 10:56:00 GMTmoonlightgamestreamingnvidiahttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-03-23-graduation-past-and-future/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-03-23-graduation-past-and-future/Two years have passed. Everything has changed including me. I am no longer that simple, and I don't like it. The ceremony today was great. It was only two years late, and nobody I knew was there. It reminded me of lots of great memories at UNSW. They will not fade away. I get a b…Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:36:00 GMTreminiscencegraduationsingaporesydneyunswhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-03-11-return-of-iphone-se/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-03-11-return-of-iphone-se/A month ago, I returned my iPhone SE. You might be wondering why it took so long. It is interesting because I only received it today. The device was returned twice because the seller sent the wrong model. I like the new device simply because everything works as it should. For the…Fri, 11 Mar 2022 12:06:00 GMTmeditationiphone2016https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-03-09-macbook-pro-2019/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-03-09-macbook-pro-2019/The all new Mac Studio is fancy. It is much cheaper than buying the latest MacBook Pro. However, why do I need to buy it if I can buy a used MacBook Pro 2019 with Intel i9, AMD graphics and 1TB SSD for much less? The 2019 MacBook Pro is almost perfect for me. I used to own the 20…Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:50:00 GMTmeditationapplehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-03-09-apple-event/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-03-09-apple-event/Boring!Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:45:00 GMTapple-eventhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-02-13-animego-road-to-desktop/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-02-13-animego-road-to-desktop/With the latest release of Flutter, Windows is officially supported, and this is a great LEAP of Flutter. However, the road to desktop is not simple. Simply running the same app on desktop is not fully supporting desktop. The app must adapt to desktop and should even include desk…Sun, 13 Feb 2022 12:03:00 GMTmeditationanimegoflutterdesktopgithubreactnativehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-02-10-iphone-se/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-02-10-iphone-se/Today, I returned my iPhone SE gen 1 to the seller. It was a short time with my little iPhone SE, but I enjoyed using the phone more than anything else. It is tiny and light unlike most flagship phones, but it is a fully functional phone. It runs the latest OS (iOS 15), and all a…Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:10:00 GMTmeditationiphone2016iosApplehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-02-07-sleep-buds/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2022-02-07-sleep-buds/I never have any sleep issues and I sleep a lot. However, there is only one problem with me, and that is it takes a long time to fall asleep. Usually, it takes around half an hour but it can be up to an hour or even more. This was until I knew about the sleepbuds. That day, I was…Mon, 07 Feb 2022 10:43:00 GMTreviewsleepbudshttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-09-25-reminiscence-6-years-in-australia/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-09-25-reminiscence-6-years-in-australia/六年前、私は一人でシドニーに来た。六年間色々あったね。一人の私も友達が出来て、大学を卒業して、今は会社で働いている。空港に着地した時私は未来など全然分からなかった。それからの出会いも別れも何もかも知らなかった。 初めて会った人は中国人のタクシー運転手だった。私はちょっとびっくりした、中国語で話したから。英語じゃなくて中国語？ここはシドニーじゃないか。そう、シドニーにはどこの人もいる。そして、寮に着いて、知らない人が寮の場所を教えてくれた。「UniLodge」というクソ高い寮だった。私はまだ未成年だったから、毎日 8 時にサインをしなくてはいけなかった。今…Sat, 25 Sep 2021 03:32:00 GMTreminiscencesydneyjapanesewowsinfounswhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-09-19-reminiscence-ios/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-09-19-reminiscence-ios/Since that fateful day I received my first iPhone running iOS 4, it has been more than 11 years. Yesterday, I said Apple is one of three life changing things in my life. This brings me back to the very early days of using iPhone and iOS. The good old days when I truly enjoyed usi…Sun, 19 Sep 2021 09:06:00 GMTreminiscenceiosiphoneAppledreamhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-09-16-a15-bionic/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-09-16-a15-bionic/Another year, another boring event. Nothing is interesting since the iPhone X event. The notch this year is finally smaller but that notch is what stopping Apple. The new iPad mini is what iPhone 13 should be. Abandon the torch completely and move on with Touch ID and Type C. How…Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:41:00 GMTmeditationappleapple-eventiphonehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-09-14-reminiscence-apple-event/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-09-14-reminiscence-apple-event/I still remember I used to watch the September Apple Event live in Singapore. I had to stay up very late just to watch it but it was worth it. Every time, I enjoyed new products coming from Apple, mainly the new iPhone. However, I don't do it anymore. The last event I watched liv…Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:50:00 GMTreminiscenceapple-eventsingaporehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-09-07-rezel-cross/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-09-07-rezel-cross/<img src='https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scalesmall/22/224423/2741860-cover.jpg' style='float: left; padding-right: 16px' height='250px' width='145'/ リゼルクロス (REZEL CROSS) was a game developed by ソニー・インタラクティブエンタテインメント (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.) and was released ear…Mon, 06 Sep 2021 09:05:00 GMTreminiscencereviewrezel-crosspspgameretrohttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-09-04-pazusoba/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-09-04-pazusoba/Everything all started with an idea back in 2016 or 2017 when I say this video on YouTube. I cannot remember when I first saw it but this video was the origin. It was just too cool to me and I couldn't imagine that one day, I could achieve something similar. Last year, I was bori…Sat, 04 Sep 2021 09:45:00 GMTreminiscencepadpazusobaryutasingaporegithubhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-08-16-utm/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-08-16-utm/UTM is a virtualisation app for iOS and iPad OS. This is the only saviour for my new iPad Pro. ISH is simply too slow and took forever to compile my C/C++ code. Jekyll simple doesn't work at all. With UTM, I can use Jykell with Debian at least but it is not great. Maybe, I should…Mon, 16 Aug 2021 10:00:00 GMTmeditationutmipadApplehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-08-11-what-ipad-os-should-be/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-08-11-what-ipad-os-should-be/Yesterday, I talked about my new iPad Pro M1. I love it and hate it at the same time. Today, I think I should talk about my vision of iPad OS. Apple may have something completely different in their mind but today, no Apple only me. The first iPad I used was the very first iPad. I…Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:50:00 GMTmeditationipadAppleioshttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-08-10-ipad-pro-m1/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-08-10-ipad-pro-m1/Today, I received my iPad Pro M1. The delivery is quick and I bought it because of the coupon I got from Apple. This device is amazing for an average user but very limiting for me. I enjoy everything Apple offers but it can never become a computer if the system is this limited. I…Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:10:00 GMTmeditationipadApplehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-07-25-grand-theft-auto/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-07-25-grand-theft-auto/Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is an iconic open world game. My first GTA game was GTA: Vice City on PSP. Actually, it is GTA: Vice City Stories. I never understood the story and all I did was doing everything except the story. I was a kid and GTA is not for kids but it is what it is. So…Sun, 25 Jul 2021 06:31:00 GMTreminiscencegtasydneyunswhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-07-24-gpd-win-3/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-07-24-gpd-win-3/Earlier this year, I knew about GPD Win 3, a windows 10 handheld. After watching many reviews, I decided to preorder it. I rarely preorder anything because I know it probably won't end well. The last time, I preorder anything, it was the Microsoft Surface Pro 4. I received the ma…Sat, 24 Jul 2021 12:10:00 GMTreviewGPDgameretrohttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-07-18-blog-update-2/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-07-18-blog-update-2/It has been a while since I last posted. What was I doing for the past four months? I guess I was working and doing a lot of things (or nothing at all). I had three posts pending and still not completed. This is very time consuming. 10 years ago, I usually spend days working on a…Sun, 18 Jul 2021 05:40:00 GMTupdatewowsinfogithubreactnativehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-03-28-piano/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-03-28-piano/When I was young, I used to play the flute for a few years. I never liked it and it was only for extracurricular activities. I never thought that one day, I would start playing the piano. Actually, I was never into music in the first place because I didn't listen to any music at…Sun, 28 Mar 2021 09:43:00 GMTmeditationreminiscencepianosingaporesydneyhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-03-10-apple-m1/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-03-10-apple-m1/Last year, Apple announced the transition to Apple silicon. This is a great thing moving forwards for Apple, but is it? I was extremely sceptical about it until I received a Mac mini M1 for work recently. Those benchmarks are not fake. M1 is fast and silent compared to an Intel b…Tue, 09 Mar 2021 23:00:00 GMTmeditationApplehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-02-18-retroid-pocket-2/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-02-18-retroid-pocket-2/More than 2 weeks ago, I purchased a Retroid Pocket 2 handheld for AUD122 with shipping. The carrier was 4PX, and it took about 10 days to arrive. It has been a week since I got it, and I am quite satisfied with this little handheld because it has the right feel for me. The handh…Thu, 18 Feb 2021 06:25:00 GMTreviewretroid-pocket-2handheldretrohttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-02-06-8-years-of-programming/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-02-06-8-years-of-programming/8 years ago in Singapore, I went to the post office with my guardian to pick up my parcel from Beijing. It had several things in it and the most important thing was the C Primer Plus book. I had been waiting for a few weeks. 8 years later in Sydney, programming is now my career.…Sat, 06 Feb 2021 06:55:30 GMTreminiscenceprogrammingiphonesingaporegamewowsinfoappbeijingsydneysingaporegithubreactnativehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-01-30-surface-pro-review/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-01-30-surface-pro-review/- Introduction - Timeline - Surface RT - Surface Pro 4 - Surface Pro 3 - Surface Pro 6 - Conclusion Introduction I have a long history with Microsoft Surface. My first device was a Surface RT and now, I own a Surface Pro 6. I have used 4 Surface devices and I will talk about ever…Sun, 31 Jan 2021 07:30:00 GMTreviewmicrosoftsurfaceproipadbeijingsingaporesydneyhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-01-22-blog-update-1/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-01-22-blog-update-1/It has been a month since I started updating my GitHub Page, and I am still experimenting with everything. The website is plain and empty. Many things are not yet finalised. That's why I would like to gather my ideas here. Website I was planning to update the look, but I haven't…Fri, 22 Jan 2021 03:35:00 GMTupdatehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-01-20-linux-on-android/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-01-20-linux-on-android/Recently, I installed Debian on my phone with Termux. The intention was hosting a Minecraft server on my old Android phone. It has a Snapdragon 835 and 8 GB of RAM. The server was just perfect and now, I can play Minecraft with my friends whenever I want. How COOL is that?! Phone…Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:05:00 GMTlinuxandroidipadhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-01-09-new-app/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-01-09-new-app/Last January, I started a new project Henry's Habit App. It was a simple app to help you start new habits. It was great but soon, I found out that an issue. It was boring and people like me will give up in a few days. There must be a way to make the app "fun". The development was…Sat, 09 Jan 2021 00:30:00 GMThabitappfluttergithubhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-01-01-the-revival-of-animeone/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2021-01-01-the-revival-of-animeone/AnimeOne 雖然是我第二個動漫 APP 但她是我第一個使用 Flutter 製作的 APP。也是我很滿意的 APP，主要是因爲好的架構以及 APP 的設計。維持了半年多還不需要重寫，這也證明了我的進步。WoWs Info 我不知道重寫了多少次。。。而且當初最重要的内核部分，我只用了 3 天就完成了，可以説是非常剛啊，哈哈。 網站的故事 去年 4 月，因爲一些原因網站關閉。我也終止了 APP 的維護。大概是 2020 年 12 月初，網站再次開啓了。當然那時的我還不知道。最近，我又開始使用 NVIDIA SHIELD TV，無意間打開了 Chrome…Fri, 01 Jan 2021 09:30:00 GMTanimeoneappchinesegithubhttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2020-12-21-end-of-wows-info/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2020-12-21-end-of-wows-info/I haven't committed to WoWs Info since Jul 14, 2020 except for personal rating on the API branch so you might ask, "Am I abandoning this project?". There were several occasions where I wanted to stop but I didn't. Did it worth it at all? Before answering this question, we have to…Fri, 01 Jan 2021 05:00:00 GMTwowsinfoappgithubreactnativehttps://henryquan.github.io/posts/2020-12-20-hello-world/https://henryquan.github.io/posts/2020-12-20-hello-world/I used to have a WordPress blog and post tutorials or updates. I stopped for some reasons, probably because of uni. Now, I am planning to start posting again. This blog is generated using Jekyll. It is still quite plain but I will choose a fancy theme in the future.Sun, 20 Dec 2020 11:16:56 GMTupdate