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RICK TSUI
AI Researcher & Developer
Exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence, language, and human interaction through practical applications and innovative research.
There was a time when playing with Hexo themes felt exciting.
Clean, fast, customizable — it seemed like the perfect tool for a developer who also wanted to write.
I enjoyed digging through config.yml, tweaking CSS, exploring different themes from GitHub, and making everything just right.
But that phase is over.
🧩 The Reality of “Customizable”
Every time I wanted to update my blog, I found myself knee-deep in:
- theme configuration files
- outdated plugins
- broken layouts
- API changes
What was supposed to be a writing platform slowly turned into a front-end maintenance project.
Change a theme? Great.
Now the menu is broken, search doesn’t work, and the post layout is messed up.
Want dark mode?
Sure — just rewrite half the CSS, debug some JavaScript, and hope the theme author documented the config options.
Spoiler: they didn’t.
✍️ I Just Want to Write
That’s the whole point, right?
Writing.
I don’t want to:
- spend an afternoon reading source code just to change the font size
- add a footer link by modifying three different layout files
- keep track of which files to patch every time the theme author pushes a breaking change
All I want is:
Open an editor → Write something → Hit publish