Field notes — est. 2026

Muyang Chen

陈沐阳

code, systems, and other quiet things

archive no. 0009

Our day-to-day life may be a series of small miracles.

Minimal zine cover: a cracked grayscale phone sliding into a saturated ultramarine protective case on aged paper

Please Put a Case on Your Phone

Today, I dropped my phone again. Unfortunately, the screen cracked—the outer glass, to be precise. I had already broken it once at the end of June, and now I have done it again. At first, I thought the problem was that I had not applied the screen protector properly. So this time I paid close attention and carefully put on a tempered-glass protector. But the unfortunate thing still happened. Just like that, the screen shattered again. ...

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Minimal zine cover: a tomato-red runtime trace escapes a grayscale circuit labyrinth across two offset torn-paper panels

From Static Analysis to Dynamic Debugging: Reverse Engineering in the Agent Era

If one day someone asked you to reverse-engineer an application, an app, or a website, what would you do? Two years ago, I probably would have been completely at a loss—or, at the very least, I would have run into problem after problem. I might have thrown the whole thing into an AI chat box and asked it to help me find a direction. Honestly, that approach was incredibly inefficient, and it was easy to miss important details. ...

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A minimal zine-style poster: a printer's test specimen card with a grayscale flowchart and one ultramarine square node, on aged paper

Rendering Demo

This page verifies the global rendering features configured for the site. Math Rendering Inline math works with \(e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0\). Block math works too: $$ \int_0^1 x^2 \, dx = \frac{1}{3} $$ Mermaid Diagram Rendering This block checks Mermaid code fences and the site’s interactive diagram wrapper. - + Fit flowchart TD Start[Start] --> Write[Write Markdown] Write --> Build[Run Hugo] Build --> Deploy[Push to Vercel] Raw HTML Rendering This disclosure widget is authored as raw HTML inside Markdown. ...

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