Zilong Liang / Hack Notes on Mar 13, 2026
I reverted the note number prefixes on both https://tech.zlliang.me and https://days.zlliang.me. Notes are now shown as #44 again instead of #tech44 or #days44.
I made the opposite change earlier this year because I thought the prefixes would make the two spaces clearer. After using them for a while, though, I found that they mostly added visual noise and mental overhead. The note number only needs to be unique within each site, so the extra prefix was solving a problem I don’t really have.
Update Mar 30, 2026: In late March, I renamed my two journal websites. They are now Hack https://hack.zlliang.me and Muse https://muse.zlliang.me. See: Renamed the two journal websites to Hack and Muse.
I just finished another round of cleanup on my https://tech.zlliang.me and https://days.zlliang.me websites. This time I reworked the note tags across both sites, aiming for a smaller and more durable taxonomy that better reflects long-term themes instead of one-off entities.
At the same time, I renamed the note category field to type for both websites. The canonical page is now /notes/types. This is a small breaking change, but I think the new naming is clearer.
Recently, I’ve started using Codex and GPT-5.4 heavily. They did an excellent job helping me complete this work and saved me a lot of time. Here are the commits: zlliang/zlliang@1e0c72b and zlliang/zlliang@97fb17a.
Update Mar 22, 2026: This introduced URL-level breaking changes, but I later added middleware-based redirects so old /notes/categories/... URLs continue to work. That should also help search engines consolidate signals more cleanly toward the new /notes/types/... routes.
Update Mar 30, 2026: In late March, I renamed my two journal websites. They are now Hack https://hack.zlliang.me and Muse https://muse.zlliang.me. See: Renamed the two journal websites to Hack and Muse.