2024 UPDATE: As Google removed the ability to view your Timeline on the web, there’s no straightforward way to do this unless you export your Timeline data and do some manual tinkering.

As long as you keep your phone’s location on, Google Maps will create a map for the locations you go to for each day, called Timeline. However, currently it’s not possible to show the map for, say, a whole week of activities, but only for one day.

To create something like that, you’ll need to go to Google My Maps and create a new map with the data of your timeline. Here’s how to do that.

I went to Iceland with my family for a 13-day self-driving trip in 2023 November. Here’s our itinerary and my review of each of the spots we went to.

I got into the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University in Sep 2019 and graduated in Jun 2023. There were a lot of ups and downs, but in the end, everything turned out to be okay.

MacOS is the best operating system for desktops, but it still leaves a lot to be desired. Thankfully, there are a lot of third party apps you can install to make your experience so much better.

In the last year of my college life, I worked at LINE Taiwan as a backend engineer intern for a total of 10 months.

Stupid, but chill.

Taiwanese born between 1994 to 2004 are obligated to serve in the military for 4 months (it’s 1-year for those born before 1994 and after 2004). It is divided into 2 phases: the 1-month training phase and the 3-month serving phase. My experience in the training phase can be seen here. For the 2nd phase, we are assigned to various troops all over the territory semi-randomly. Each batch of soldiers in the training phase will have lots from different sets of troops, and for some reason, the lots for ours were all troops in Taichung, which is our hometown. What was crazier was that, there was quite some lots for the military hospital, which is arguably the best place to serve the 2nd phase.

Full collection of my wonderful 大兵日記.

Each conscript of the ROC military is required to write 2 entries each week, one for your thoughts about a given topic, and another as your general journal about what happened in the past week.

Author: Greg Egan

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Author: Greg Egan

A collection of Greg Egan’s short science fiction stories.