Qingci Song

Exploring the different approaches to rendering web pages - server-side rendering, client-side rendering, and SSG - and how they impact user experience.

Understanding the five-stage process that happens between clicking a link and seeing a webpage: source, storage, render, delivery, and presentation.

Architecture is not chosen — it is derived, by working backward from user needs to data. This also reshapes the app design from task to energy management

How I took "energy" — something abstract and invisible — and turned it into a mathematical model you can actually simulate.

programming paradigms

A design narrative on Lumen — a time management app built around one idea: make the invisible structure of your time visible.

Understanding the three core layers of web development: HTML for structure, CSS for style, and JavaScript for interaction.