# yjsoon > YJ Soon's personal blog. Personal blog of YJ Soon. Content is licensed [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). RSS is at /rss.xml. A corpus-wide JSON-LD graph is at /schema/blog.json. ## Start here - [Home](https://yjsoon.com/index.md): YJ Soon's personal blog. - [About](https://yjsoon.com/about.md): YJ Soon — teacher, designer, and programmer in Singapore. Co-founder of Tinkertanker. - [All posts](https://yjsoon.com/posts.md): All the articles I've posted. - [Archives](https://yjsoon.com/archives.md): All the articles I've archived. ## All pages - [Posts](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2.md): All the articles I've posted. - [The most annoying teacher in the world](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2013-01-17-the-most-annoying-teacher-in-the-world.md): is MEEEEEEE - [MICA Innovation Fiesta](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2014-03-14-mica-innovation-fiesta.md): A commission from 2006. - [Opportunity Job Fair](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2015-12-25-opportunity-job-fair.md): A commission from 2001. - [What's a Tinkertanker](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2017-04-16-whats-a-tinkertanker.md): Republished from Medium. We started Tinkertanker in 2011, and haven't written much about the company and what we do. As a result, we now regula... - [Fries Robot](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2019-01-09-fries-robot.md): I've been promising Kiddo 1 I'd draw his requests whenever he finishes his home learning. Here's one. - [Bird Box Challenge](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2019-01-13-bird-box-challenge.md): Kind of. Drawn with Procreate on an (old) iPad Pro with an (old) Apple Pencil. - [Determination to Learn](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2019-02-09-determination-to-learn.md): About a year ago, Daniel, a 19-year-old New Zealander, gave me a call, and asked if he could just come by our office and hang out and learn things qui... - [2020 Vision](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2020-01-02-2020-vision.md): I waited years to make this stupid pun (as did the copyright holders, apparently). Happy new year! Drawn on an 11” Pad Pro with Procreate. - [A moving story*](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2024-01-04-a-moving-story.md): My company, Tinkertanker, is moving from our Bukit Merah office of 5 years over to Jalan Pemimpin. It's our fourth real office after we moved out of a study. - [Code in Place](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2024-06-01-code-in-place.md): This week, I finished my final weekly volunteer session with my Code in Place section for 2024. Code in Place is a free online introductory programmin... - [Happy Teachers' Day](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2024-09-01-happy-teachers-day.md): Happy Teachers’ Day to:My wife, who every day, brings all her primary school teacher experience to bear for our kids’ education, especially in Chinese... - [One Million Checkboxes](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2024-12-03-one-million-checkboxes.md): In June, a programmer released a web-based mini-game that allowed users to check or uncheck any of 1,000,000 checkboxes — and when they did, it changed for everyone viewing the site simultaneously. - [Early vibe coding thoughts](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2025-03-04-early-vibe-coding-thoughts.md): Some thoughts on coding with AI (or, that awful, awful name, \\"vibe coding\\"):It's my kid's PSLE year*, and I got bored of reading spelling words to him... - [Sibeh awesome! Committed!](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2025-07-01-sibeh-awesome-committed.md): Since my last post, I've settled on Claude Code for AI coding. Pedagogical questions aside, I seriously have not had this much fun playing with new te... - [Application for professional slopper](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2025-08-04-application-for-professional-slopper.md): 🔥 It’s not just fascination — it’s an obsession. 🔥 Lately, I’ve been on a journey (yes, a journey 🚀) to write like AI. Not just write with it — ... - [Warped](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2025-08-19-warped.md): A surprising and delightful experience with a terminal - [You can just do things (or, new blog engine!)](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2025-08-20-rebuilding-my-blog-with-ai-assistance.md): How AI tools helped me migrate from WordPress to Astro and completely rebuild my personal website in 3 days. - [DHH interview](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2025-08-23-dhh-on-vibe-coding.md): A 6-hour interview on coding, AI, learning, and life. 6! Hours!! - [If you teach the Singaporean on the road](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2025-09-05-if-you-teach-the-singaporean-on-the-road.md): A former student's thoughtful piece - [Teaching in stick shift](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2025-09-06-stuck-teaching-in-stick-shift.md): AI-assisted coding is challenging programming education fundamentals and I'm not sure I like it - [Vibe coding with an AI character](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2025-09-16-character-ai.md): Keeping my own interest while reading AI-generated code - [The General Problem](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2025-09-27-the-general-problem.md): YJ Soon's personal blog. - [Home-Cooked and Barefoot](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2025-10-10-home-cooked-and-barefoot.md): Link: Maggie Appleton on AI enabling coders - [Peter Steinberger's OpenClaw story](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2026-01-31-steipete-openclaw-interview.md): The Pragmatic Engineer interviews the creator of OpenClaw — on burnout, rediscovering the spark, and building the agentic assistant the big companies can't. - [Annoyingly Excited](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2026-02-19-vibe-coding.md): Paul Ford's thoughtful take on AI coding tools hits different than the usual hype. Also: Shumer. - [The Death of Good Enough](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2026-03-13-the-death-of-good-enough.md): When perfect costs an hour and good enough costs five minutes, what happens to class? - [A piece of personal software I made](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2026-04-17-justnow.md): I made a free macOS app called JustNow. It records your screen and lets you scrub back to find things you missed. - [The agenticbuilders.sg site](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2026-04-27-the-agenticbuilders-sg-site.md): Half a year into the Agentic Builders Collective, we finally have a proper website — vibe-designed with Claude and Codex. - [Introduction to Claw Breeding for Youths](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2026-06-24-introduction-claw-breeding-youths.md): Notes from running an OpenClaw bootcamp for nearly a hundred high school students for DSTA's Young Defence Scientists Programme. - [Fireflies and glows and sliders](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2026-07-25-the-delightful-version.md): I burned a terrifyingly large number of Claude Fable tokens trying to make one word on our Tinkercademy homepage look good at tinkercademy.com. - [Beneficial Mountains of Slop](https://yjsoon.com/posts/2026-08-06-thanks-codex-for-the-slop-design.md): Last weekend, I realised I had a ChatGPT/Codex “banked reset” expiring at 4am. - [Posts](https://yjsoon.com/posts/3.md): All the articles I've posted. - [Posts](https://yjsoon.com/posts/4.md): All the articles I've posted. - [Search](https://yjsoon.com/search.md): Search any article ... - [Tags](https://yjsoon.com/tags.md): All the tags used in posts. - [Tag: ai](https://yjsoon.com/tags/ai.md): All the articles with the tag "ai". - [Tag: ai](https://yjsoon.com/tags/ai/2.md): All the articles with the tag "ai". - [Tag: amusing](https://yjsoon.com/tags/amusing.md): All the articles with the tag "amusing". - [Tag: chicken](https://yjsoon.com/tags/chicken.md): All the articles with the tag "chicken". - [Tag: coding](https://yjsoon.com/tags/coding.md): All the articles with the tag "coding". - [Tag: community](https://yjsoon.com/tags/community.md): All the articles with the tag "community". - [Tag: design](https://yjsoon.com/tags/design.md): All the articles with the tag "design". - [Tag: drawings](https://yjsoon.com/tags/drawings.md): All the articles with the tag "drawings". - [Tag: education](https://yjsoon.com/tags/education.md): All the articles with the tag "education". - [Tag: links](https://yjsoon.com/tags/links.md): All the articles with the tag "links". - [Tag: personal](https://yjsoon.com/tags/personal.md): All the articles with the tag "personal". - [Tag: personal finance](https://yjsoon.com/tags/personal-finance.md): All the articles with the tag "personal finance". - [Tag: programming](https://yjsoon.com/tags/programming.md): All the articles with the tag "programming". - [Tag: singapore](https://yjsoon.com/tags/singapore.md): All the articles with the tag "singapore". - [Tag: swift](https://yjsoon.com/tags/swift.md): All the articles with the tag "swift". - [Tag: teaching](https://yjsoon.com/tags/teaching.md): All the articles with the tag "teaching". - [Tag: vibe-coding](https://yjsoon.com/tags/vibe-coding.md): All the articles with the tag "vibe-coding". - [Tag: videos](https://yjsoon.com/tags/videos.md): All the articles with the tag "videos". - [Tag: work](https://yjsoon.com/tags/work.md): All the articles with the tag "work". - [Tag: writing](https://yjsoon.com/tags/writing.md): All the articles with the tag "writing".