$ whoami gary lai · software engineer · trying to build the harder kind $ cat ./README.md
It's easy to build software. Hard to build good software. Harder still to build something people love.
18 posts·37 tags·updated 5 Aug 2026
$ ls .
./posts/life notes & essays18 posts./works/things I've built→./tags/browse by topic37 tags./interview/interview prep notes→./about.mdabout & contact→
$ cd ./posts — jump straight to the writing