Chinh (lelouvincx) lelouvincx

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The Beauty of Bonsai Styles

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• A really cool experience to learn about types of bonsai and the art of doing bonsai.
• Today I learn bonsai is the art of nurturing and training the tree so that it simulates the long-lived trees in nature.
• There are several types of bonsai:
  • Formal upright / chokan: https://media.secondbrain.lelouvincx.com/2026/05/76a910d7498a242190058583249fde46.png
  • Informal upright / Moyogi: https://media.secondbrain.lelouvincx.com/2026/05/8685c9ecf81cafc96d141b93589a71cc.png
  • Slanting style / Shakan: https://media.secondbrain.lelouvincx.com/2026/05/b17b3a7d01d2f5a8c89f4231df902df2.png
  • Cascade style / Kengai: https://media.secondbrain.lelouvincx.com/2026/05/0750ee5d9597181d3acb9e262a80c23d.png
  • Forest style / Yose-ue: https://media.secondbrain.lelouvincx.com/2026/05/959460b1f948ad9392f904cebe0d3178.png
  • To me the most beautiful ones are formal style (Chokan) and forest style (Yose-ue).
  • If had a chance I would visit this garden once.
• [[Badminton]]
  • Today I play badminton, realized that I am now so so weak. Just play for a while (30 min) but started to breath miserably.
  • One reason could be I was hungry, didn’t eat since early morning.
  • But actually my health is actually going down.

Tasks

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• DONE Version v0.4.5

DONE Install Caveman skill and use for a while

• “I was surprised not to see any discussion on whether the author used AI to help write this post. As many people say, writing is thinking.”
  • Make me think: if I’m using AI to write, do I even think?
  • Sometimes, yes. I need it to create a sample boilerplate, then I edit on that.
  • But it is not good when I write daily journal, should be done 100% by me. Because writing is thinking.

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https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/11/how-to-beat-procrastination.html

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• Some quotes:
  • “Procrastinators love planning. But when procrastinators plan, they like to do it in a vague way that doesn’t consider details or reality too closely, and their planning leaves them perfectly set up to not actually accomplish anything.”
  • “Effective planning takes a big list and selects a winner.”
• The advice is right: long carry-over tasks often have a procrastination root, not a priority root. Indeed, there are some tasks like this. One of the reasons is it’s too vague, and I feel hard to get started.
• LEARNING For vague tasks, try time-blocking, try to deal with it, understand it and make it less vague.

https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_release/

Tasks

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• DONE Check BuyCo ticket

Watch demo call first.

• Questions:
  • 3:34 How caching works toward pushing queries down MotherDuck (their data warehouse)?
  • 6:54 AQL experience was not straightforward (although he has SQL background).
    • AI not very reliable.
  • 48:30 Dashboard has toggle to hide/show filters
  • 1:06:51 I know that they may have like a modeling language. And I can see that other tools having their own query language or modeling language, is something that you intend somehow to release as open source stuff or what’s the vision? I want you to have the vision behind that, the AQL, AML, and so on, and how it relates, if something could be also translated from some other modeling language. Big language.
  • 1:10:42 Customize theme for BuyCo
  • 1:21:30 No, just, just, I was also wondering the, some of the examples you’ve shown there, is it something that we could get inspired if we have like, like, like kind of a sample project somehow, could we have access to some such a software to get inspired and to say, okay, the best practice is to shape the AML this way, the AQL this way, the model this way, and the dashboard also. I don’t know. I guess it could help us to get inspired without having to ask questions all the time.

Treat this as higher priority as per anh Huy’s words: “This is an active prospect that’s evaluating us (they do like us so high chance of conversion), so please work with some urgency”

Some product feedbacks:

• Losing PR link when converting a PR from open to draft: https://holistics.slack.com/archives/C0791HC91L0/p1777367462076659
• YAML parsing error in holistics skills repo: https://holistics.slack.com/archives/C04Q67M9V96/p1777371338716569
• Inconsistent syntax when manually map filter: https://holistics.slack.com/archives/C04TCTYKKHD/p1777354552911669
• https://holistics.slack.com/archives/C08TDEZT2J0/p1777281772746529

Tasks

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• DONE Check 1Win case per Quinn’s confusion

Done

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• DONE Install the official Holistics skill

NOTE Customer communication signal: try framing as a self-serve doc + offer: here is the recipe, happy to pair if helpful

Wes Kao newsletter

• This author is about communication in work. Worth reading and following.

IDEA export an image and send to github PR whenever a change on dashboard

• Gap: no API endpoint for exporting a dashboard as PNG in https://docs.holistics.io/api/

Tasks

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• DONE Review DAT-584

  • Done round 1. My concern: revealing secret like this is not good.
  • Done round 2. LGTM. Merged.

Done

• DONE Fix Tenant Lookup ‘User List’ widget

DONE Set up CLI client for Cloudflare R2 upload

NOTE Migrate from 1Long to another place to save money. I don’t think 1Long is reliable anymore to save emergency money.

I was sick 2 days ago, I felt tired from monday, extend till wednesday I have to leave the entire day to rest.

• The cause comes from playing game for too late I think. Until my body can’t handle it and catch a cold.
• Today is thursday, still feel not at my best right now, but a little better.
• LEARNING Do not play at night after 6PM, because I will eventually play for all night. Just in the morning/early afternoon.

Tasks

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• DONE Set up Drata and remove Vanta

DONE Tax checking

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