About Me

I’m Jack Chou.

I’m currently a graduate student in color science. For more about me and our work, please visit my personal page and lab website.

My hobbies include photography, cats, and coffee.

About This Blog

This blog was first created on June 29, 2023, originally intended as a portfolio for job hunting. Looking back, my limited experience and mindset at that time made it difficult to produce quality content, and that job search was unlikely to succeed. However, there were some decent posts like Processing Raw Images in MATLAB, though most were hidden as drafts.

Later, a fortunate opportunity ended that strange job search period, and I lost motivation to update the blog, occasionally using it for odd purposes. For example, I once shared postcard stories with a French couple I met at an Airbnb in Paris.

This was the story of the blog’s initial phase. Some of the old content can still be found in the Archive šŸŒƒ.

Being a static site deployed on GitHub Pages, other GitHub Pages under my account share the same domain. Visitors accessing just the domain would see this outdated, messy blog.

To better share project pages and utilize Cloudflare’s Tunnel feature, I purchased the domain jackchou00.icu, making the abandoned blog issue more apparent.

On January 20, 2025, to satisfy my desire to share and a bit of vanityā€”and to ensure the domain doesn’t point to a neglected blogā€”the revamped JacksBlog was officially launched. This time, its purpose is to document research and interests, and share photos and life experiences.

The site is generated by Hugo using a slightly modified PaperMod theme, deployed on GitHub Pages with Cloudflare DNS and proxy.

Changelog

  • 2025.04.14: Experimental Support for Multiple Languages.
  • 2025.02.17: Realized tags work well for categorization, removed the “Colour” subcategory.
  • 2025.02.11: Deployed GitHub Actionsā€”now the blog’s source files have version control and auto-deployment.
  • 2025.02.02: Added toggle buttons for show/hide functionality using shortcodes.
  • 2025.01.24: Disabled MiSans font to improve loading speed; now using Google Fonts’ Source Han Sans.
  • 2025.01.22: Switched to Cloudflare R2 for image storage.
  • 2025.01.20: Updated fontsā€”Ubuntu Sans and Ubuntu Mono via Google Fonts. Chinese text uses locally loaded MiSans. Code background color changed to 238.
  • 2025.01.18: Added $\LaTeX$ formula support (see PaperMod: Math Typesetting).
  • 2025.01.15: Modified PaperMod’s background color. Changed theme in themes\PaperMod\assets\css\core\theme-vars.css from pure white to 245.