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thoughts by victor

blog post detailing my projects, travels and opinions

Things I build & run

  • Story to Manga Machine Paste a story, watch it become manga. Built in 48 hours across nine time zones. with Kingston Kuan
  • Tambourine Voice Open-source dictation that actually gets your words right. contributor
  • Pokemon TCG Event Day Rules, timers, and tools for the prerelease events I run.
  • TCG Idle Game An ASCII idle game — from casual collector to card shop owner.

Writing

projects · Mar 1, 2026

The back button that wasn't there

Sometime last year I noticed something I’d been doing multiple times a day without thinking about it. I’d be deep in a conversation with an AI chat, it would link me somewhere,...

projects · Feb 12, 2026

Why I've been dictating everything lately

I’ve been dictating a lot recently: emails, Slack messages, notes, even commit messages. The tool behind this is Tambourine Voice, an open source dictation app my friend Kingston Kuan started. I’ve contributed...

projects · Sep 10, 2025

Building a manga machine in 48 hours

Kingston and I are manga fans, and we’d been following AI image generation pretty closely. At the start of this year you could already generate manga panels with AI, but character consistency...

projects · Feb 16, 2025

Building a Pokémon prerelease toolkit with LLMs

I recently hosted a Pokemon TCG prerelease event for my friends, most of whom were new to the card game. In typical developer fashion, I over-engineered the solution by building a small...

travel · Jan 28, 2025

Singapore food recommendations

As one of the only Singaporeans in various social situations, I get asked about what to eat in Singapore. It started when a friend asked for a list and I decided instead...

projects · Dec 11, 2022

Improving Reddit communities through engagement

Reddit can be a toxic place, sadly. According to this New Scientist article More than one in eight Reddit users publish toxic posts. An analysis of 1.2 million Reddit users found that...