justin liang

Hi my name is Justin Liang, and this is my website

I am a person living in New York City currently

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My favorite website right now is are.na, but I feel like I've been using it a little too much lately. Maybe I should take a break. I use it for a variety of things: bookmarking tool, note-taking app, social media, etc.

I also use Youtube a lot. I usually watch music videos: ranging from anime music videos to hip hop.

Some other websites I used less frequently are twitter and linkedin.

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My main hobby currently is creating experimental web browsers. Check out my are.na channel where I document my work. I am interested in how to make a more humane web browser. One where we can see where we've been and where we want to go.

Besides that... here's a funny picture of a cat :3

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May 4, 2026

I've always felt like my websites were kinda lackluster. I either have a "boring" html website or try something conceptual but half-baked. I think this is because I don't believe we have the adequate tools to express ourselves on the web currently.

Our primary modes of making websites is usually of the following

1. Vanilla HTML - beautiful in simplicity but steep learning curve and difficult to create interactive applications. Also completely text based and doesn't allow for visual creation of websites. Why do I have to look at a text document and edit that in order to create a website? I want to look directly at the website itself.
2. React/whatever bloated JS framework - able to create interactive applications, but highly complex. I usually see people resorting to complex build tools, AI tools, etc. just to create a website. The wasted complexity in this makes me sad. Like using a cruise ship to transport a single person.
3. Visual website builder (squarespace, figma sites, etc.) - highly visual which is good, but locks your website behind someone else's platform causing you to lose control of your project. Also lacks in making interactive applications.

I think eventually I want to make my own local-only visual website builder. I think then I will be more encouraged to make websites.

I wonder how many beautiful websites in the world could have been created, but weren't because people weren't given the adequate tools to make them. How much art, connection, and expression has been lost because of this. I think it is a tragedy.