https://broaden.dev/blog/ Whatever is worth writing down: the process of building, what AI changed, and the occasional hard-won detail. en qicharms.zeng@gmail.com (Caixuan Zeng) Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:01:07 GMT https://broaden.dev/blog/punch-fun-light-fitness/ https://broaden.dev/blog/punch-fun-light-fitness/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Exercise is expensive not because of the fee, but the overhead around it. Make "starting" cheap and movement happens. https://broaden.dev/blog/level-ball/ https://broaden.dev/blog/level-ball/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT From the 1889 "Pigs in Clover" craze to a Swedish wooden maze to a phone screen — what gets lost when a hands-on toy goes digital. https://broaden.dev/blog/compress-to-exact-kb/ https://broaden.dev/blog/compress-to-exact-kb/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT One-shot compression is guessing; a two-stage search is solving. We ran both against a 2400×1600 image to see where the difference actually comes from. https://broaden.dev/blog/pdf-line-breaks/ https://broaden.dev/blog/pdf-line-breaks/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A PDF has no concept of a "paragraph" — only characters placed at coordinates. So the line breaks you copy out are layout residue, not text meaning. https://broaden.dev/blog/hello-broaden/ https://broaden.dev/blog/hello-broaden/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Some ideas used to stay ideas because building them was out of reach. That reason has grown thin — and that is the background this site exists against.