About What?

I go by stcheng.

I like fruits from the family Sapindaceae.

I was born in Hangzhou, and have lived in Shanghai and Philadelphia.

I live in the greater Seattle area now.

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This site is part travel archive, part personal notebook, and part long-running personal project. It has gone through a few different generations over the years, and the timeline below captures the major checkpoints.

  1. QZone

  2. myspace

  3. Sina Blog

  4. -> Azure + Hexo

  5. Azure -> AWS

  6. Hexo -> Astro

  7. AI-Enabled

Site Notes

This Site Today

  • RSS/Atom feed available
  • A mix of travel writing, photos, maps, and longer essays

What Iโ€™m Improving

  • Better search and post discovery
  • Ongoing polish for comments, maps, and gallery flows
  • Keeping the site simple enough to maintain over time

Recent Milestones

2026

  • AI-Enabled
  • Add per-post article styles
  • Revamp gallery around rooms and grouped photo entries
  • Add reusable bilingual writing blocks

2026-04

  • Add an internal link checker for generated pages

2026-02

  • Add destinations page

2025-02

  • Add webring
  • Continue site polish and deployment updates

2025

  • Migrate to Astro
    • Enable dark mode
  • Introduced Twikoo for comments

2023-11

  • Add Favicon

2023-06

  • Add the subscription experiment
  • Add the sitemap.xml

2023-05

  • Add a banner background image

2023-04

  • Rename to S T C H E N G

2022-12

  • Create a 404 page and redirect non-existing pages there

2021-12

  • Improve deploy correctness around MIME types and content uploads
  • Add RSS/Atom feed support
  • Automate S3 upload flow for the old Hexo stack

2021-11

  • Migrate from Azure and set up AWS