Hi there, thank you for your effort and interest in wanting to know what I really am.

My name is 許/许xīng or Dex.

Some interesting facts about myself *click*
  • I had high school for 4 years (1 year exchange) and college for 5 years (1 year work).
    • exchange: I went to Finland during 2012-2013 for high school exchange.
    • work: In 2019 I went to NTU(Singapore) for 0.5 year and ZJU(Hangzhou) for 0.5 year.
    • I went THU(Beijing) for a week (between the above switch).
  • I lived in a military-restricted area in China before (2005-2015).
  • I scored 145/150 on English for Gaokao.
  • My father is from Teochew and my mother is from Shanxi. My grandparents and my father speaks Teochew at home. However, I am not able to speak 潮州話Teochew (only a few phrases). My native language is 普通话Mandarin. English is full professional working proficiency and I can speak some suomen kieliFinnish, 日本語Japanese and españolSpanish.
  • I can do a lot sports including but not limited to tennis, table tennis, swimming, golf, basketball, football (American/non-American), badminton, archery, baseball. Disclosure: My highest grade of a course in university is body building (95/100)
  • First touched computer when I was 7 on a Windows 95, but I only learned programming after getting into college.
  • My grandfather was actually born in Thailand and brought back to China when he was 2 years old.
  • My father was adopted by his parentsmy grandparents and found his biological parents in his 40s.

What is a normal day of yours?

Mostly research and coding. I love to know how something works and why it works. I am driven by new technology and I belittle money and fame, even though I need money to live on. But since one of my researches is on portfolio management and we did online trading at real market (cryptocurrencies, forex, etc.), I think I will be able to afford myself and my interests for now.

Besides, I also workout A LOT. I used to think I will be a bodybuilder, but after I learned to program, this becomes a far-away dream, though I do want to have six-packs. If you ever see me at gym, feel free to come and say hello :)

Some favorite things

  • My favorite movie: The Life of Brian by Monty Python
  • My favorite language: PythonRust
  • My favorite laptop brand: thinkpad T series (currently T470p)
  • My favorite OS: UbuntuArch Linux & Windows Dual Boot
  • My favorite text editor: VimVSCode with Vim
  • My favorite book(s):
    • The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk.
    • You probably can find some books I read on books.dex.moe.

My identity

I saw some people use keybase. So here we are.

One of my GPG pub key is here.

Contact

I do not have a whereXis website yet, but you can always find me by sending an email to
echo ZGl4aW5neHVAZ21haWwuY29tCg== | base64 --decode.

Friends

Society is composed of living human beings, so is the Internet. I find a lot interesting people online and even without the necessity of meeting them in person, I learned a lot from their blogs / projects / papers / comments. And here is 友链friend exchange list. ▶ indicates met in person.

If you want to be added, just leave a comment :-)

Last updated: Feb.10th 2020