MINA YU
MINA YU

Different places.
A more honest me.

TAIPEI, TAIWANA personal field journal

Field notes

Writing

Thoughts, experiments, places, and things I’ve learned along the way.

A curious mind,
exploring a more open world.

Same person.
Just a little
farther.

  1. Software Development · Projects & Implementation

    Redesigning My Personal Website with GPT-6 Astra — in About 5 Hours

    I redesigned and rebuilt my personal website with GPT-6 Astra and Codex in about five hours of hands-on development. Here’s how I went from an idea and visual mockups to a production-ready Next.js site—and what the process taught me about product engineering in the AI era.

  2. Software Development · Research and Learning Note

    From Hugo to Next.js (SSG): Refactor personal website and keep 300k history views and 50+ stable visits everyday SEO result

    A practical guide: Use Next.js to refactor the original Hugo personal website, and maintain the SEO results of 300,000 historical views and 50+ stable visits per day. The post include metadata, key points of SEO optimization, and settings for deploying static websites.

  3. Software Development · Research and Learning Note

    [Back-end skill] How to use Black Duck and Fortify On Demand APIs? (with Python Requests and Postman

    We have a lengthy security detection release flow and using Black Duck and Fortify On Demand to do scans for features. We want to research APIs of both scans and achieve automation.

  4. Software Development · Research and Learning Note

    [Solutions] Research the lengthy security detection flow of product release, design and propose automating solutions (Fortify on Demand and Black Duck scans)

    We have a lengthy security detection flow which needs to pass each time new feature release on production. We took the research on the whole flow and propose automating solutions to automate part of the flow which are doing scans.

  5. Software Development · Research and Learning Note

    [Front-end] Use CSS linear-gradient and Figma export SVG file develop simple starry night background effect.

    Today, I would like to share how I use CSS linear-gradient with stars svg file exported by Figma Plugin to develop a simple starry night background.

  6. Software Development · Research and Learning Note

    [Front-end] How to change CSS background color if use linear-gradient effect?

    I used a lot of linear-gradient effect in css in my self-developed product. The one of the features is changing the color when user click the div, it didn't work if use the normal syntax, I found a new resolution and share in article.

  7. Software Development · Research and Learning Note

    [Back-end] Resolve CORS issue research note (Python FastAPI + Firebase/Firestore)

    This post note how I resolve CORS issue in back-end side with the cases FastAPI and Firebase.

  8. Software Development · Research and Learning Note

    [Back-end] How to use Python send requests to Jira APIs (Create and Get Ticket, Leave Comment and Upload Attachments)

    In this post, I will take note on how we use Python for sending requests to Jira APIs.

  9. Software Development · Research and Learning Note

    [Back-end Tech] Research on Amazon Neptune Database and Data Visualization

    Graph DB, AWS Neptune and Data Visualization is the topic I collaborate with member from another team in our company's innovative idea research sprint, this will be a funny and innovative experience for me. I would like to extract part of our research note here.

  10. Software Development · Projects & Implementation

    [Product Development Diary] The future plan of Miri | Series(3) | Story

    With enthusiasm and less powerful programming ability, I began to try to develop my own software product. Record stories about the future plans of Miri, what features I want to do in the future, what should I do before continue develop it.

  11. Software Development · Projects & Implementation

    [Product Development Diary] The third version of Miri | The development life in this half year | Series(2) | Story

    With enthusiasm and less powerful programming ability, I began to try to develop my own software product. Record stories about the development of third version in this half year, what are new features? What problems I faced and What affected my insistance of dream.

  12. Software Development · Projects & Implementation

    [Product Development Diary] The motivation and origin of Miri | Series(1) | Story

    With enthusiasm and less powerful programming ability, I began to try to develop my own software product. Record stories since the beginning of the inspiration, the implementation, until now I have the final picture of the product, and continue to work hard to move forward.

  13. Español Posts · Novel - Somos familia

    Somos Familia - Una chica asiática contacta con la cultura española (2)

    Soy una chica asiática quien vivo en Taiwan, estoy aprendiendo español, yo pasé algunas cosas que muy sorpresa, entonces quiero escribir en mi blog. Escribiré nuestra historia y que diferente de cultura.

  14. Español Posts · Novel - Somos familia

    Somos Familia - Una chica asiática contacta con la cultura española (1)

    Soy una chica asiática quien vivo en Taiwan, estoy aprendiendo español, yo pasé algunas cosas que muy sorpresa, entonces quiero escribir en mi blog. Escribiré nuestra historia y que diferente de cultura.