I build things I don't completely understand yet.

“I am Matthew Chen (陳軍宇) — a programmer, hardware tinkerer, bassist, and student of Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence at Tamkang University (淡江大學) in Taiwan.”

I grew up in Tangerang, Indonesia, immersed in school hackathons, drama productions ('Roda di Balik Gerobak'), robotics breadboards, and Tarakanita CC5+ values. Now based in Taiwan, I split my waking hours between mathematical tensor kernels, cascaded control loops, speedcubing algorithms, and the rhythmic crack of slap bass guitar against frets.

I don't fit neatly into the modern developer archetype. I don't care about startup valuations, aesthetic corporate roadmaps, or building another CRUD wrapper around someone else's closed API. I care about what happens when the voltage hits the motor coil, when the matrix product fits inside L2 cache, and when a machine behaves with genuine physical elegance.

“Things with tactile feedback, zero-dependency resilience, and low-latency mechanical truth.”

• §dual-loop-controller: A Python package published on PyPI (v2.5.0) implementing nested cascaded PID control for high-precision robotics and physical actuators.
• §PENJAGA-MOBILE: An off-grid civilian emergency mesh network communicating via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) packet hops during disaster blackouts.
• §Block Blast CV Solver: An automated computer vision pipeline using OpenCV and ADB to scan, evaluate, and inject real-time tile placement taps at 60 FPS.
• §Heterogeneous Cross-Play Minecraft Cluster: A high-throughput Paper/Spigot distributed game infrastructure bridging Java and Bedrock clients via custom UDP packet translation.
• §Grouped-Subspace Latent MoE Routing: Sparse Small Language Model architectures engineered to reason locally on 15W laptop NPU silicon with custom PyTorch and Triton kernels.

“Engineering is a moral discipline, not a spectacle.”

• §Small models over bloated monoliths. An intelligence that runs locally on battery power is sovereign; an intelligence leased through a token API is just a fragile rental.
• §If you don't understand the physical constraints of your hardware, your software is an accident waiting to fail.
• §Friction is healthy. Autocomplete and AI code generators that write boilerplate before you think are making programmers illiterate to edge cases.
• §Tarakanita CC5+ ethos: Competence without Compassion is dangerous; Creativity without Conviction is hollow.
• §True polish is not adding features. True polish is stripping away every layer of abstraction until only the raw, humming math remains.

“The edge of current comprehension.”

• §Continuous learning mechanisms in sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) routing without catastrophic forgetting.
• §Writing custom Triton / C++ CUDA kernels for low-rank grouped attention directly addressing memory bus bandwidth bottlenecks.
• §Traditional Chinese character philology (繁體字) — understanding how archaic radical structures balance spatial weight.
• §16th-note slap-bass ghost-note fingerings in 7/8 time signatures, chasing the pocket between the kick drum and the high-hat sizzle.

“Things keeping my desk lamp on at 3:00 AM.”

• §Dual-loop cascaded state feedback and eliminating phase lag in low-cost stepper drivers.
• §CFOP speedcubing inspection lookahead: predicting the first two F2L pairs during the 15-second pre-inspection period.
• §Capsa Banting & Susun card combinatorics: information asymmetry and deceptive passing strategies in 4-player games.
• §Local agent loops with Hermes Agent and OpenClaw executing on device NPUs with custom SOUL.md configuration matrices.