Bio
I am Hao Lou, also known online as phyll1s0. I study Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, but that sentence is only the formal entrance to a messier and more interesting room. Most days, I am somewhere between systems, AI, web experiments, games, and the strange little tools that begin as a passing thought and quietly become something I care about.
I like making vague ideas survive contact with reality. A project might start as a line in a note, a late-night question, or a small irritation with how existing tools behave. Then comes the part I enjoy most: giving it a shape, watching it break, arguing with the details, and slowly turning it into something that can be used, played with, or at least honestly learned from. Code, for me, is not only a way to solve problems. It is also a way to think in public, to leave traces of curiosity, and to find out what an idea really means after the pretty version in my head has met the compiler.
My technical interests tend to orbit AI and systems. I am fascinated by models and agents because they change the texture of everyday work, but I am just as drawn to the lower layers: compilers, operating systems, networks, performance, and all the machinery that makes software feel solid. I also care about the surface where people actually meet the machine. A good interface has rhythm. A good website has a voice. A good tool should feel like it respects the person using it.
Outside the terminal, I am not especially eager to become a single-purpose human. I ski when I can, play tennis and billiards, wander through games like Zenless Zone Zero, Hollow Knight, and CS2, and read whatever catches me, from web novels to philosophy. I like films, music, travel, and long questions that do not become less important just because they refuse to become tidy. Creation, existence, relationships, memory, selfhood: these are not side quests to me. They are part of the same map.
This site is my small corner of that map. It holds notes, projects, experiments, and the occasional attempt to write down what I am becoming before the next version of me changes the wording. I believe people are shaped by what they repeatedly do, but also by what they repeatedly return to. For now, I keep returning to building things, asking better questions, and trying to live with enough attention that the work does not flatten the life around it.
Fun Fact
Why phyll1s0?
Why phyll1s0?
You might notice that my Chinese internet name, 凌灰音, borrows its sound from Lin Huiyin, the writer and architect. A smaller hidden branch of that joke is her English name: Phyllis Whei Yin Lin.
So phyll1s0 begins with phyllis, taken from that name. The final 0 echoes ling (林 / 凌) in Chinese, and the 1 is there partly because a computer science person is allowed one tiny piece of binary-flavored awkwardness. It is not perfectly logical, which is probably why I like it.
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This site is built on top of Anthony Fu’s antfu.me, then bent toward my own pages, writing, and small experiments. The scaffolding gave me a generous starting point; the voice, taste, and occasional rough edges from here are mine.