About my name
Call me Matling, متلينغ, ᒪᑦᓕᖕ, or 物灵.
Etymology From mat as in material and -ling, suffix for a follower.
Ahem.
For though pedantic enough, I attribute the name to Tsieushaeng Fuh by Euyang Sieu.
The verdant is unsentimental, fading into nothing now and then. Humans are animals, but the paragon of them.
草木无情，有时飘零。人为动物，惟物之灵。
Surface analysis is influenced by Sky Darmos’ The German Language in Chinese Script. No, Darmos is not worth refuting, but the quackery is excessive enough for a foundation of recreational art.
In non-natural languages:
| Language | Name | Alternative |
|---|---|---|
| Dan’a’yo | 묻링 | Mutling |
| Esperanto | Matlino | |
| Lojban | la mytlin | |
| Shidinn | gwƨ viƨ | Geuénnýn |
| Shōnago language |  | Māute-nòhlì |
| Toki Pona | jan Malin | jan[_mi_alasa_li_insa_nasin] |
Pronouns are any except ambiguous. Other than ‘I/me’, I exceedingly call myself ‘Liengtz’ (always in Wu: lin˨ tsz̩) these days, influenced by a Wuhan-based beauty influencer with motivational experiences.
Designing matling.fit
The theme 2038
The name of 2038, a Jekyll theme by my own, is a reference to — not that you already know — a song by Yi An Musical released in 2018. It is a song that whispered the possibility of a future of oblivion and the demise of their musician dreams. Alas, the song, according to some, turned out to be a crystal ball.
Traits for design include
- Vertical rhythm for lead typesetting
- No border design (Cards are muddy!)
Largely JavaScript-free(Withdrawn, even not this)- Adjustable as in Citizen
Unfortunately, the code in GitHub repository is outdated, particularly redundant and not complying with modern CSS. I should have been more decisive — the old code is controversial when I take both retrocomputing and free from JavaScript into account.
A timeline for progenitors
- 2011
- The birth of a website of Muqliong Gang in Microsoft FrontPage, with ‘eye-protecting’ orchid-coloured table layout, reading ‘it is our eternal pursuit to help more people realise their dreams’. Not knowing how to publish it online, I requested fellows of the Gang to manually create the same directory.
- 2012
- Some earliest posts are published in Facebook-influenced websites, including zww.cn, xxt (weathered blog), and QQ, where I remembered were crammed with ‘not apocalypse but cherishing year!’.
- 2018
- A blog with Hexo, with a ‘futuristic’ collection of practice questions on physics, was first time deployed online with CODING. After the service adjustment I moved to Gitee. Writing elsewhere on algorithm at the same time; I may or may not include them later.
- 2020
- Revived my blog after gāokǎo. Migrated to Jekyll.
- 21 May 2021
- Registered the domain name later changed (for spelling reezon) to matling.fit. Theme switched to 2038 designed in a fortnight.
- 11 Mar 2024
- ‘Many blogs are prone to desolation for lack management’… Well, some sort. Rearranged the repository.
- 25 Jun 2025
- Removed links to AlphaGem, Emotion., insilent, lris, Mr. Wolfram, Rem, Tsienbaecdhuh, and unt. You have seen my hypocrisy, but this is partially driven by my former appointment.
Might stop now
This will never become another Gwern-like self-reveal. Nevertheless, 2038 stemmed when I believed I had been more design-minded.
The traits Gwern and I shared were developed independently. Though Gwern’s innovation is elegant and flawless, I have found myself accustomed to it, for example, leaving the cursor on hyperlinks as short as possible to avoid loading a pop-up. The active work-around clearly denotes an antipattern.
Languages
A post may have not been translated or written in obscure language because it pertains language-specific background knowledge or is intended to stress test that language, which will be less frequent as this blog aims to provide worldwide perspectives. Or because it was written at a young age and only archived.
Metadata
Publication date
DM (‘in the days of Muqliong’) denote days starting from 1 May 2011, when Muqliong Gang was approximately formed. For more details, refer to Lexicon Matlini.
IIIA
IIIA (Indice d’implication de l’intelligence artificielle) is an index proposed by Liangqoociawzhem.