Aha! You've entered the secret land of Vivian Qiao.
Where the pets live. Boop is the desktop pet app I make after hours, at getbooped.com.
Get a pet, boop your friends.
Pixel pets that live on your desktop and drop by your friends' screens. Poke them, play with them, tuck them in at night.
Where Odo is being built. Quiet, please.
Step inside your dream.
A dream journal you talk to. Say your dream out loud when you wake up, and Odo turns it into a scene you can step back into. Every night lands on one timeline.
COMING TO THE APP STORE
Ice skating down the Hudson with a frog who kept asking for directions.
Where questions grow branches. Sprout is the learning tool I built for myself.
Learn anything by branching off.
Read a book, a PDF or any topic. Highlight a phrase you don't get and a side branch grows to explain it, then folds back into the main thread. Every branch you explore becomes a leaf in your garden.
The Fed raised interest rates to cool inflation, and mortgage costs followed.
Higher rates make borrowing pricier, so people and companies spend less and prices calm down.
I write fiction under a pen name, SaltyMalty. The book on the desk right now is Shadows of Upper East, a novel told through several characters living in New York.
EXCERPTS COMING SOON
SHADOWS OF
UPPER EAST
a novel
by SaltyMalty
NEW YORK · WORK IN PROGRESS
Where I go while the pets are napping.
Risk helper, professional vibe coder
I help them manage risk better. Mostly I vibe code until the numbers behave.
Analyst, then Associate
Where I leveled up.
Master's
Durham, North Carolina. The year before New York.
Bachelor's
University of International Business and Economics. Before that, growing up by the sea in Weihai.
You found the trapdoor. Down here it's electronic music, and mostly it's Underworld.