# Laijie Ji

> Software developer in Valencia, working through a master's in AI at the UPV. This site is his journal (book reviews and the occasional essay), his photographs, and a few projects.

## Pages

- [Me](https://laijie.dev/): who he is, what he works on
- [Projects](https://laijie.dev/projects/): things he has built
- [The shelf](https://laijie.dev/shelf/): every book he has finished, by year, with ratings

## Journal

- [A Year Since Munich](https://laijie.dev/blog/a-year-since-munich/): A year ago I landed in Munich for an Erasmus nobody had asked me to do. Not all of it went well, yet I wouldn't hesitate to do it again
- [A Miata of My Own](https://laijie.dev/blog/a-miata-of-my-own/): Surrounded by supercars, I came home and bought the humblest roadster on the road

## Book reviews

- [Book Review - To Live](https://laijie.dev/blog/book-to-live/): Nothing heroic about it. They are still alive, so they keep on living
- [Book Review - The Sorrows of Young Werther](https://laijie.dev/blog/book-the-sorrows-of-young-werther/): The flame that lights him is the same one that burns him
- [Book Review - She and Her Cat](https://laijie.dev/blog/book-she-and-her-cat/): No one talks her into opening the door - the cat does
- [Book Review - The City and Its Uncertain Walls](https://laijie.dev/blog/book-the-city-and-its-uncertain-walls/): He went looking for a lost love, and walked out finally free of her
- [Book Review - The Old Man and the Sea](https://laijie.dev/blog/book-the-old-man-and-the-sea/): One old man against one great fish, and the hardest battles are the ones nobody sees
- [Book Review - The Death of Ivan Ilyich](https://laijie.dev/blog/book-the-death-of-ivan-ilyich/): He lived exactly as he was supposed to, which is the very reason he never truly lived
- [Book Review - No Longer Human](https://laijie.dev/blog/book-no-longer-human/): We all wear the mask in smaller doses, and we never learn what it is hiding
- [Book Review - The Three-Body Problem trilogy](https://laijie.dev/blog/book-three-body-problem/): Two people were handed the survival of the species, and neither answer was the right one
- [Book Review - Crossroads of Ravens](https://laijie.dev/blog/book-crossroads-of-ravens/): They call the witchers monsters, but the cruellest ones here are human
- [Book Review - The Stranger](https://laijie.dev/blog/book-the-stranger/): He lived colourblind to the world, and only at the end saw the colour he had refused
- [Book Review - Notes from the Underground](https://laijie.dev/blog/book-notes-from-the-underground/): He thought his way out of every decent instinct, including the one that could have saved him
- [Book Review - Marina](https://laijie.dev/blog/book-marina/): A gothic Barcelona, a love that was never going to last, and a book that haunted me twice
- [Book Review - Kafka on the Shore](https://laijie.dev/blog/book-kafka-on-the-shore/): Talking cats, fish that rain from the sky, and a world that still felt truer than my own
- [Book Review - Metro 2035](https://laijie.dev/blog/book-metro-2035/): He came back with proof of a world outside, and nobody down there wanted to hear it
- [Book Review - The Shadow of the Wind](https://laijie.dev/blog/book-the-shadow-of-the-wind/): Some books you choose, and a rare few, in a hidden library in Barcelona, choose you

## Photography

- [A Graduation Trip to Prague](https://laijie.dev/photography/prague/): Eight of us and five days in the city of a hundred spires to celebrate the end of the degree
- [Three Days in Trieste](https://laijie.dev/photography/trieste/): An improvised solo trip to Italy's old Habsburg port on the Adriatic
- [Hiking in Bavaria](https://laijie.dev/photography/hiking-bavaria/): The Bavarian Alps are one of the best places to visit for nature lovers
- [Munich's Landmarks](https://laijie.dev/photography/munich-landmarks/): Admiring Munich's historical landmarks during my first weeks in the city

## Optional

- [Everything above, in full](https://laijie.dev/llms-full.txt)