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Resize Windows Cursor by Editing .CUR Files

Motivation. Due to Windows 11's design, the cursor size is scaled along with the display scaling ratio. On my 27-inch 4K monitor with 150% scaling, even the smallest cursor may still look too big. Unfortunately, Windows 11 does not permit shrinking the cursor beyond its built-in minimum size. To further reduce the cursor size, I have to manually edit the cursor icon files.

A How-to Guide to Font Selection

Motivation. There are two practical considerations to move beyond the default fonts. First, defaults are designed to be universally applicable, which inevitably makes them suboptimal for specific situations. Different types of texts—such as research papers, technical manuals, personal blogs, or software user interfaces—require different fonts to establish the right tone and clearly convey meaning without distracting their readers. Second, from a practical standpoint, most fonts are created to support only a limited subset of characters and styles. In practice, we have to deal with coverage issues and need to pair fonts to handle a wide range of characters, especially in non-English texts.

Install, Configure, and Use WSL on Windows 11

For me, WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is the answer for working in both Linux and Windows environments. It works by running a Linux virtual machine within Windows. Although it's not perfect—nothing in the world is—WSL does a reasonably good job.

Write Citations in Org and Export to LaTeX

Motivation. This post considers handling citations in Org, generating nicely formatted reference entries in HTML, and exporting to LaTeX directly with properly generated Bib(La)TeX citation commands.

A Repository for Future Tasks

Motivation. Store potential future tasks and rank them based on priority. Many ideas aren't worth pursuing immediately and could be stored for future consideration. To avoid being overwhelmed by an ever-growing list of such tasks, consider ranking them by priority.