https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/Recent content in Snippets on David ChenHugo -- gohugo.iohttps://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/cook-rice-failed/Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:03:00 +0200https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/cook-rice-failed/If you follow the instruction of cooking rice with a pot and time it correctly, you get perfect rice. If you don’t pay attention, though, something’s gonna go wrong. One time, I put the rice on the stove and let it cook. I thought it’s already done and went out shopping for stuff. When I came back home, my room was filled with a strong smell of rice. Here. Let me show you by example, what happens after letting your rice cook for 3 hours:https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/how-to-cook-rice/Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:34:00 +0200https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/how-to-cook-rice/For Taiwanese (or Asian in general?), one of the essential survival skills in Europe is learning how to cook white rice without a rice cooker. As a Taiwanese, when we own a Tatung rice cooker here, we are instantly that legendary figure at the very top of the Taiwanese social pyramid. Put it up for sale second hand and some Taiwanese will grab it in seconds. But the truth is, in Europe, a rice cooker is not something every household has.https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/2025-06-11-good-presentation/Wed, 11 Jun 2025 01:02:00 +0000https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/2025-06-11-good-presentation/How do you know you’re a good presenter? When you do a presentation in a class and it is not a presentation skill course, and you are still able to engage your audience all the way through the presentation. That’s when you know it.https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/daily-yak-shaving/Sun, 29 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/daily-yak-shaving/originally posted on 4th of November, 2022 Lying in bed, listening to my favorite podcast one night… “What time is it?” I realized I might have been in bed for too long. I picked up my phone and unlocked the screen. Checked Slack just in case I missed an important update from my boss. Nothing new. What about Hacker News? Browsing now… Oh wait… Figma is acquired by Adobe? RIP.https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/2024-02-21-learning-how-to-draw/Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:35:13 +0000https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/2024-02-21-learning-how-to-draw/I destroyed that face sorry about thathttps://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/2024-02-09-why-do-branding/Fri, 09 Feb 2024 22:40:32 +0000https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/2024-02-09-why-do-branding/The purpose of branding is for the whole organization to have a mission and a plan to follow internally. Everything it benefits from outside of the organization is just the byproduct.https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/2024-02-06-perfect/Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:46:37 +0000https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/2024-02-06-perfect/“You are perfect as you are, and you can always be better.”https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/2024-02-06-the-friend-we-all-need/Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:39:06 +0000https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/2024-02-06-the-friend-we-all-need/The friend we all need 😎https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/2024-01-31-drawing/Wed, 31 Jan 2024 20:27:28 +0000https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/2024-01-31-drawing/Documenting my drawing practice… how the heck do you draw faces properly?? I’m struggling 🥴https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/2024-01-30-my-own-platform/Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:25:43 +0000https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/2024-01-30-my-own-platform/this is my Threads, X, twitter, Instagram, Facebook, whatever it is, however you call it. It’s complete freedom, and we all need it.https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/2024-01-30-testing-cms/Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:12:42 +0000https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/2024-01-30-testing-cms/This is David testing Decap CMShttps://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/celebrate/Mon, 29 Jan 2024 22:45:33 +0800https://blog.xdavidchen.com/en/snippets/celebrate/First post of my life snippets. If anyone asks why I don’t use social media, tell them because I choose to stay here. Cheers!