About

👋 你好，I am Alan Chen

• Developer · Indie maker · Distance runner
• Based in Xishuangbanna, China — usually typing in a café or running a mountain trail
• Former Douyin operator who escaped excessive hustle to build calmer, useful things
• Focus zones: Body (training, recovery) • Mind (sleep, focus) • Spirit (meaning, systems thinking)

I once trained four months for a full marathon, just to prove a stubborn spreadsheet wrong. Now I experiment with code, wearables, and a healthy dose of curiosity to optimize the other 99 % of life.

🪷 Why the name “Chen’s Chan”

Chen = my family name （陈）
Chan = the Chinese root of Zen (禅)
Together they rhyme, collide, and remind me that clarity comes from stillness, not speed.

This site is my small zazen cushion on the internet — a place to pause, inspect the code running inside my head, then refactor it in public.

🚴‍♂️ What you’ll read here

1. Sleep & rhythm — data-driven deep dives, experiments, and the occasional nap chart.
2. Training logs — from marathon blocks to spur-of-the-moment treks, with heart-rate geekery included.
3. Builder’s notes — shipping tiny products like PulseRun and DearNight, lessons on solo workflows, AI tooling, and SEO trenches.
4. Mind mechanics — essays on procrastination loops, self-talk refactoring, and borrowing ideas from cognitive science.
5. Field trips — diving, fishing, mountain sketches, and why nature is the original debugger.

Expect one substantive post every few weeks, plus shorter “field notes” when something breaks (or works) spectacularly.

🌐 Connect

I love thoughtful questions, edge-case bug reports, and book swaps.

• GitHub → https://github.com/alanchenschan
• X / Twitter → https://x.com/alanchenschan
• Email → alanchenschan+blog@gmail.com

Grab a cup of tea and wander around; may you find a line or two that makes your next breath a bit lighter.
— Alan