Laulupidu is the Estonian Song Celebration, held every 5 years. It is a very large-scale event. The 2025 event was the 28th celebration, with more than 30,000 performers and 100,000 attendees. For Estonia, a country with a population of only over a million, it is truly a massive, nationwide celebration. The parade began at Vabaduse väljak (Freedom Square) in the city center, and participants sang and walked along the road for about 1 hour (over 4 km) to the performance venue, Tallinna Lauluväljak. At the opening ceremony, everyone sang the national anthem together, and then unfolded a three-day performance.
In the past two months, I’ve been traveling through South Korea, Qatar, and Turkey. Along the way, I found AI tools surprisingly useful and want to share a few practical ways I’ve been using them. It feels like we’re witnessing a kind of paradigm shift in how we travel.
I always tried to optimize my way of organizing tasks.
Back in junior and high school, I used notebooks. Around 2014, during college, I switched to using Google Sheets. In 2018, I turned to Evernote. Then, in 2021, after entering the workforce, I began using Notion.
In late 2022, I took it a step further — I tried to manage everything using tools I built from scratch.
In May 2024, we embarked on an enchanting art residency in Keelung, Taiwan. That was a fantastic experience. The weather was pleasant, the food was delicious, and the people were friendly.
Last month, my wife and I spent about 2 weeks in Matsu, where time seemed to be frozen on the island. The pace was slow enough to ride a bike on the road at 25 km/hr without any other vehicles around, feeling the wind gently brush through the face.
I found it very correct to bring the book “Four Thousand Weeks” to Matsu. I slowly read this book during the travel. The book discusses the concept of “life is enough for everyone”, we just have to enjoy the moment and don’t blame ourselves too much.
Over the past year, I have developed 5 PWAs to integrate with my daily life. The data is managed on my personal server, which provides me with a great sense of satisfaction.
If directly using gpg -c XXX and gpg -d XXX the gpg-agent will prompt the password asking dialog.
See GPG manual:
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If this command is used with --batch, --pinentry-mode has been set to loopback, and one of the passphrase options (--passphrase, --passphrase-fd, or --passphrase-file) is used, the supplied passphrase is used for the new key and the agent does not ask for it. To create a key without any protection --passphrase '' may be used.
So just set it with --batch and --pinentry-mode loopback, then can use the --passphrase.
--no-symkey-cache to disable symmetric key cached and --cipher-algo to set algorithm.
