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ASCII art of Naty on her vintage Puch road bike

Welcome to my personal website. I’m Naty, a tech dabbler, third-culture kid, serial hobbyist, and lifelong learner.

BurgeonLab is my Internet home, where I document mostly geeky interests and other enlightenments. This is my passion project and a work in progress; so expect regular changes.

I am keen on data privacy, self-hosting, technical writing, specialty coffee, street photography, fountain pens, Formula 1, and more.

My other pseudonyms are @eclecticpassions and @aperture2iris.

Thank you for checking out my corner of the Internet. Feel free to say hi!

Embracing IndieWeb

Learn how and why I'm part of the small web

Ever since becoming aware of content ownership, enshittification, and the IndieWeb in 2025; I’m gradually integrating small web principles and IndieWeb building blocks into my site.

For instance, my site receives webmentions if your site supports sending them; otherwise, feel free to send me a webmention manually! Public webmention display isn’t supported yet, but I’ll be notified if you mention something from my site.

Some other popular feature in small web communities I’ve implement are:

  • Webrings—a collection of sites linked serially around some theme. You can find the webrings I’m part of in the expandable list in the footer and explore other sites with the navigational links.
  • Web badges (aka 88x31 buttons) are also down there; hover to see a tooltip or click to explore.
  • And while you’re at it, feel free to sign my guestbook!

In the last week of 2025, BurgeonLab gained full Micropub support through Indiekit that I’m self-hosting on my Raspberry Pi! Explore content tagged with: #indieweb, #indiekit to learn more.

If you want to read more about the IndieWeb community, here are some articles for you:

Noticeboard

Show notices

August 1, 2026: I’m participating in Blaugust 2026. Join me in this annual August blogging event!

July 17, 2026: I am starting a new time zone / region for Homebrew Website Club, a virtual event for everyone to talk all things personal websites and IndieWeb! Check out these links for more details:

January 11, 2026: I’m doing the #100DaysToOffload blogging challenge!

Counter: 76/100 Remaining: 162d
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Newest: Aug-01Start: Jan-11

I’m in the process of a serious overhaul of my Hugo theme’s CSS. There may be some breakage in the meantime, apologies!

**I’m collecting feedback to make the blog better in 2026. As a reader, your opinion matters to me. Could you take my 1–2 minute anonymous questionnaire? Thank you!

Notes Stream

I write notes / microblogs for sharing shorter content; like quick status updates or notes on a topic that probably won’t become a full blog article. Click on the bar to open a preview or the permalink icon to view the full note.

Less than 30 minutes before August 1st ends (I better write this note quickly!) I have decided to participate in this rather infamous annual blogging event ...

Reading Kali’s post about ownership triggered me to write this post about my memories of owning games and other types of media in my lifetime. The ...

The phrase “one take pass” is probably not proper English. It’s a common phrase you’ll hear in Hong Kong for taking any sort of ...

I updated almost all the Apache ECharts and Hugo code that generates my favourite page on BurgeonLab: the /⁠stats page. With the new post types I’ve ...

DRY stands for Don’t Repeat Yourself.

Although what I did last night doesn’t affect the frontend / look-and-feel of my site, I am pleased to ...

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Latest Weeknotes

Here are my latest weeknotes. They’re a type of post that I publish weekly and sometimes covers less technical topics.
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Latest Blogs

Blog articles are how I usually share my technical tinkering logs. I plan to write more non-technical topics, aka personal or casual posts in the future; but it will probably be on a separate domain (I will share it here when it is ready!)

A Dating Matter: Hugo, Indiekit, and Node

How an issue with dates in Hugo triggered me to go on a learning journey with Indiekit and Node.js, and ended up creating my first npm package Indiekit plugin. While writing this troubleshooting log, I ended up creating a new Hugo feature: a shortcode that fetches OG images from external links!

How to Prevent Hugo From Publishing Draft Posts Accidentally

See how I added a pre-build step using a Bash script in my Hugo deployment workflow to check for the draft status of Markdown content. By using stricter linting rules than Hugo’s default draft behaviour, it can catch and prevent drafts from being accidentally published.
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