Projects

SeahEuChin.info - Biography of Seah Eu Chin (1805–1883), a pioneer in pepper and gambier agriculture and a prominent community leader in 19th century Singapore.

Featured in:

• Stan Neal (2019) “Mediators, migrants and memories of colonial Singapore : The life and legacy of Seah Eu Chin.” In: Anthony Webster, Nicholas White (eds.) Singapore : Two hundred years of the Lion City. Routledge.

Learn Teochew! - Guide to Teochew (Chaozhou) language for heritage speakers.

Featured in:

• “IN FOCUS: Are Chinese dialects at risk of dying out in Singapore?” Channel News Asia, Tang See Kit, 17 Dec 2022.
• Interview with The Teochew Store, 15 May 2022.
• “Chinese Languages Resources List”, Chinese Languages in Aotearoa, Museum of New Zealand / Te Papa Tongarewa
• “Writing Teochew”, Language Log, 24 February 2022.

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changer-ranger - Exploration of the change-making and optimal-denomination problems, to design a currency that will minimize the number of coins needed to make transactions.

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Translations from the Storehouse of Laughter - A 17th century Chinese joke book, selections translated for entertainment, and to test some ideas on text markup.

Protists in Singapore - Illustrated Guide to Microscopic Life in the City

Personal blog

Fiction: “Brief Reports” The Harvard Advocate, Fall 2010.

Recurring Themes

Cartography

Blog posts

• Make Your Own Lantern Globe
• Open-source Cartography with GMT

Bookmarks

• GMT - The Generic Mapping Tools - Open-source software for command-line cartography
• Map Projects - A Working Manual by John P. Snyder, published by the US Geological Survey - Key reference work on map projections
• d3-geo - Map projections rendered by the D3 JavaScript library
• Map Projections (archived copy) by Carlos Furuti - One of the best-illustrated and clearest explanations of map projections on the web (defunct as of end-2018)

Stereoscopy

Seeing in three dimensions from two-dimensional images.

Blog posts

• Wiggle 3D
• 3D Vision with the Pulfrich Effect
• Magic Eye 3D Globes
• Fake 3D Glasses (but Still Interesting)

Animated explanations of the Pulfrich effect

1. Pendulum demo
2. Moving scenery
3. Animated explanation

Bookmarks

• Wikipedia “Stereoscopy” and related pages

Typesetting and Document Processing

Bookmarks

• Pandoc - Universal document converter
• Butterick's Practical Typography