Junping Yi
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  • March 18, 2026

    How I Used AI to Paint Hundreds of Cities Like the World's Greatest Artists

    Almost a year, several thousand dollars, and one model I wasn't expecting. The story of building an AI art pipeline for ExploreFocus.

  • December 31, 2025

    2026

    A stylistic typographic experiment recreating the iconic 'WASTED' screen. Just playing around with some visual ideas for the year 2026.

  • October 21, 2024

    Building an Efficient iOS Development Environment in Cursor: AI Programming + Live Preview

    Tired of Xcode's sluggishness? Here's my complete guide on setting up Cursor/VSCode for iOS development. I'll show you how to leverage AI programming and get live UI previews without the usual Xcode headaches.

  • April 15, 2024

    Towards Building User-Centric Indie Apps

    Is building a user-centric app really that hard? I don't think so. Using my recently launched app 'Context' as a case study, I'm sharing my original product docs and thoughts on what it actually takes to build something people need.

  • February 18, 2023

    Exploring Ways to Circumvent Chinese Character Censorship

    Back in April 2022, witnessing the massive online censorship during the Shanghai lockdown made me curious. I spent some time researching how these filtering systems actually work, and explored a few technical ways to circumvent them.

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