https://roobystudio.com/Tech Consultant & Trance Producer. Exploring code, music, and life. 2026-06-04T21:46:03+08:00 Boyu Li https://roobystudio.com/ Jekyll © 2026 Boyu Li /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-06-03T22:00:00+08:00 2026-06-03T22:44:43+08:00 https://roobystudio.com/posts/life-infinite-game/ boyu

Finite games are played to win. Infinite games are played to keep playing. A reflection on why staying in the game matters more than any single score — including why I wrote this post after a long pause.

2026-04-04T16:05:00+08:00 2026-04-04T18:44:18+08:00 https://roobystudio.com/posts/db-design-best-practices/ boyu

Logical vs physical foreign keys, N+1 in the ORM layer, optimistic vs pessimistic locking for concurrent updates, and operational habits — indexes, soft deletes, audits, naming — that keep a schema maintainable.

2026-03-20T22:00:00+08:00 2026-03-20T23:14:18+08:00 https://roobystudio.com/posts/growth-mindset/ boyu

What growth mindset really means, why exam-oriented education makes it so hard to adopt, and how to start rewiring your default response to failure.

2026-03-18T10:00:00+08:00 2026-03-18T10:00:00+08:00 https://roobystudio.com/posts/post-purchase-rationalization/ boyu

Why I keep watching reviews for gadgets I already own — and how I broke the loop.

2026-03-16T20:15:00+08:00 2026-03-16T20:17:05+08:00 https://roobystudio.com/posts/language-is-the-world/ boyu

The boundary of my language is the boundary of my mind. A reflection on how the words we have — and the precision with which we use them — shape the very limits of what we can think, feel, and become.