https://blog.tdhttt.com/ Recent content on Tony Tong Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us All rights reserved - 2022 Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:11:24 -0800 https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/fundamental-engineering-principles/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:11:24 -0800 https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/fundamental-engineering-principles/ You need to define progress. You need to verify that progress is made. You need to know when there is no progress and what to do when you are stuck. Everything else is just noise and distraction. Pre-AI Era In the pre-AI engineering era, the ability to engineer was strongly coupled with coding ability. Coding was the prerequisite for real engineering. Talk is cheap. Show me the code. Talking in natural language omits important details and invites ambiguity. https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/why-write-online-now/ Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:52:24 -0800 https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/why-write-online-now/ Preface Quote from my previous post: Love Letters to Writers and LLMs It is the best time to write online. Your work will be read, guaranteed. It will be read by millions of AI agents. It will be read over and over when LLM train1 on it. No matter how niche or obscure your essay is, LLM are interested in it, they will read it, gradient-descent on it and use it in the future. https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/love-letters-to-writers-and-llms/ Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:47:24 -0800 https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/love-letters-to-writers-and-llms/ Dear Writers It is the best time to write online. Your work will be read, guaranteed. It will be read by millions of AI agents. It will be read over and over when LLMs are trained on it. No matter how niche or obscure your essay is, LLMs are interested in it. They will read it, gradient-descent on it and use it in the future. Your words will propagate to far far away, impacting the moods and decisions of millions of agents writing code, doing business research or book that hotel. https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/love-ee/ Sat, 30 Jul 2022 19:41:06 +0200 https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/love-ee/ Author’s note: Drafted in 2022, lightly edited and finished on Sep 1, 2025 for clarity. Substance unchanged. I tried to not glamorize my undergraduate experience but I could be hallucinating. “Hardware invention enabled the information revolution. The internet and all the fancy applications are nothing but some byproduct of the advancement in computer chips and fiber optic cables”, 18-year-old me thought wishfully, concluding that the next natural sequence in the major global transformation must be done with another dramatic hardware innovation. https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/hello-cern/ Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:41:06 +0200 https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/hello-cern/ I am here at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Wait, CERN? Not EONR? It turns out that French becomes more popular when you approach the France border. If you are curious, you might come back and yell at me a Wikipedia page later, “But hey the French version is: ‘Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire’, still not right!” Yes, you are totally right. And it also turns out the terminology with a historical root just sticks around, maybe for good reasons. https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/my-first-ctf/ Tue, 01 May 2018 14:41:06 +0200 https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/my-first-ctf/ I was very excited when learning that there would be a CTF (Capture The Flag) around the campus. Upon the event went live, I registered and started to look at the challenges. Oh, decoding binaries given some instruction opcode? Easy. Then there appears some -,+], which turns out to be an esoteric programming language called well, Brainfuck. Grab a compiler, and there you go. Then, I was stuck when facing with a new language along with a sample function.