Hi! I'm Edwin Fan, software engineer over various industries. I started in game development, went on to sell my own game, then moved to various industries like cryptocurrency, robotics, with some web development thrown in. Whoever you are, I hope this site provides some value for you.

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  • [Insightful Reads] A Crude Look At The Whole

    This is a book about complex systems - how things between various disciplines interact with one another. Given how people tend to view the world through the lens of what they as an individual have been through, it opens up a bunch of perspectives as to how things interact with...


  • Learnings from a stint in World of Warcraft’s GDKP community

    After not playing this crack of a game for about 15 years, I decided to come back upon learning they were re-releasing the expansion I had skipped out on, Wrath of the Lich King (WOTLK for short). I had quit early during the Burning Crusade expansion to refocus on my...


  • Stencil Buffers in a few pointers

    This assumes you know the graphics pipeline, how the depth buffer works as the pixel is being considered for drawing. The Stencil Buffer is an integer buffer. If attached to a framebuffer used for rendering and stencil test is enabled, the stencil test will happen before the depth test. It...


  • [Insightful Reads] Hyperspace - A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Wraps and the Tenth Dimension

    The title alone throws out a lot of terms taken out of fantasy, but I’ve found that the book is anything but. It attempts to trace through these concepts of dimensional space with the rigor of science and a degree of math still somewhat palatable to most people who have...


  • Insightful Book Reads

    Since 2013 I’ve been mandating non-negotiable visits to the library once a week for at least an hour. Every once in a while during these visits I will find a book that opens me up to a whole new field of insights. And in the dual interests of archival and...