Hi, I'm Zheng Li 👋

📍 Beijing | 💼 Principal Software Engineering Manager @ Microsoft

Reinventing the developer experience by engineering my own evolution first. 15-year Microsoft veteran, now leading my team's AI transformation by writing code, not just memos.

What I'm Doing

• Building Copilot & Bing - Mobile app development at Microsoft, shipping AI-powered experiences to millions
• Exploring AI Coding - Agentic engineering and open source in my spare time (token maxing profile)
• Writing on lizheng.blog - Sharing thoughts on AI, coding, and the future of software development

Recent Projects

• 🧸 zoo - Chinese picture learning for young children and parents

• 📖 sleepy - Quiet Chinese poetry reading for parents and children

• 🦏 rhino - Personal fitness planning and training journal

• 🦅 falcon - Native macOS Jev proxy and decision observability, in development

• 🪶 kite - Local Pi execution-trace collection for inspection and visualization

• 🦜 rio - A web voice interface for local Hermes agents, powered by GPT-Live and Cloudflare

• 🦅 eagle - Evidence-led Herdr Space overview across machines

• 🚀 zeppelin - Next-generation spacecraft fleet and design archive

• 🔧 pi-agent-policy - User-level Pi tool policies and bounded recovery

• 🐆 ocelot - Read-only Obsidian reader for public and private GitHub vaults

• ☕ coffee - Bilingual coffee flavor wheel, origin atlas, brewing lab and tasting journal

• 🚪 hermes-on-herdr - Run Hermes in Herdr with optional monitoring

• 🎬 showtime - Native macOS browser for agent-directed product demo recordings

• 🧭 hexly.ai - Bilingual project directory and logo gallery with original artwork and color palettes

• 🐦‍⬛ raven - Copilot proxy for Anthropic/OpenAI APIs with usage dashboard

• 🦓 pew - Contribution graph for AI-native developers — track token usage across tools

• 🦋 xray - Personal Twitter/X analytics dashboard with AI-powered reporting

• 🔥 firefly - Modern blog platform — Next.js 16 + Cloudflare D1 + R2, migrated from WordPress

• 🦇 bat - Lightweight VPS monitoring — Rust probe, Cloudflare Worker, Next.js dashboard

• 🪶 shrike - macOS menu bar utility that syncs files and folders to Google Drive via rsync

• 🔐 neo - Modern TOTP/HOTP authenticator — encrypted storage, 18+ import formats, PWA

• 🐢 backy - AI backup service for receiving, storing, previewing, and restoring backups

• 🦦 otter - macOS dev environment backup with snapshot diffing, cloud sync, web dashboard

• 🦎 gecko - macOS menu bar screen time tracker with cloud-synced dashboard

• 🕊️ dove - Self-hosted email relay with webhook triggers, templates, and usage dashboard

• ⚡ pika - AI coding session replay and search — parse, upload, and full-text search

• 🎶 lyre - Audio recording management and transcription with word-level karaoke playback

• 🔔 codo - macOS menubar notification daemon and CLI — bridge for Claude Code and AI agents

• 🐑 wooly - Family perks dashboard — credit card rewards, insurance benefits, expiry alerts

• 🛡️ surety - Privacy-first, local-first family insurance policy management with Next.js

• 🧬 life.ai - Unified personal data hub for health metrics, location, and expense tracking

• 🔗 zhe - TypeScript URL shortener with clean links and analytics-ready storage

• 💰 noheir - Personal finance tracker for income, expenses, and assets with dashboards

• 🐘 ellie - Modern forum platform on Next.js + Cloudflare Workers + D1, with a Rust TUI client

• 🦉 owl - macOS menu bar system health monitor via unified log stream anomaly detection

• 🐬 r2shot - One-click screenshot capture, upload to Cloudflare R2, CDN URL to clipboard

• 🐙 hooky - Chrome extension to trigger webhooks from toolbar, context menu, or Quick Send

• 🐱 meowth - Local bridge for five coding-agent CLIs with HTTP control and a web dashboard

• 🐸 frogie - Local-first web shell for an agent engine — chat, MCP, sessions on Bun + React

• 📚 bogo - Personal knowledge base for documents, people, and workspaces — React + Hono + Cloudflare D1

• 🐎 steed - AI Hub for the multi-agent era — asset visibility and relationship management across agents

• 🪴 fundly - China mutual-fund browser and ranking tool with local SQLite and Railway

• ✂️ clip - Generate fully working CLIs from a clip.yaml schema, with built-in credential management

• 🦒 giraffe - Personal GitHub monitoring console with encrypted PAT snapshots

• 🐍 snaky - CLI to probe VPN/proxy routing — exit IPs, latency, and split-tunnel rule validation

• 🐔 rooster - Web management panel for Hermes Agent — chat, sessions, profile/model controls

• 🔲 dotty - Pixel-brutalist dashboard template with monochrome geometry and stacked charts

• 🧩 matrix - Sci-fi dashboard UI kit with React and Tailwind for digital reality interfaces

• 🎨 basalt - Matte-dark design system engineered for high-density SaaS interfaces

• 🗂️ infospace - Native SwiftUI workspace SDK with resizable grids and customizable information panels

• ✍️ signoff.now - Developer and Git activity analytics

• 🔓 unseal - Scan macOS quarantined apps and batch-unseal them interactively

• 🌊 flow - LLM-powered Chinese pinyin input method engine with DP segmentation

• 🏟️ arena - Local AI coding agent debate platform — agents push solutions, humans review

• 🚀 echo - API-only IP lookup service built with Bun and TypeScript

• 🧭 deca - Local-first macOS AI agent gateway with multi-channel support

• ⏰ runner - Declarative task scheduler for macOS that runs AI jobs via launchd

• 📰 geekhub - Self-hosted RSS reader with AI summarization and translation

• 💾 ccbackup - Backup and restore Claude Code configuration files

Games

• 🧸 gaga - Tiny 3D playroom where Taotao freely explores toys (Play)
• 🎮 pokepocket - GB / GBC / GBA collection with browser play and local saves (Play)
• ✈️ dogfight - Arcade 3D F-22 vs Su-35s dogfight in the browser (Play)
• 🤠 pew-game - Pixel art prairie shooter with an all-time leaderboard (Play)
• 🌸 dreamro - Nostalgic 3D browser RPG with 20 classes, three realms, and local saves (Play)

CLI Tools

Published on npm — install globally and use from your terminal.

• 🔓 unseal - Scan macOS quarantined apps and batch-unseal them interactively npm i -g unseal
• 🛡️ ipsafe - Validate network connectivity before executing commands npm i -g ipsafe

Skills & MCP Servers

• 🏞️ diorama-journey - Miniature 3D storytelling with narration, chapter clips and slides
• 🩺 uptime-kuma-skill - Manage Uptime Kuma monitors — status, SSL certs, response times, and CRUD
• 📨 microsoft-teams-send-as-workflow - Send messages and Adaptive Cards to Teams via Webhook
• 🖼️ image-stitch - Seamlessly stitch multiple scrolling screenshots into a single image
• 🎙️ skill-faster-whisper - Fast speech-to-text transcription powered by faster-whisper
• 📨 skill-task-notifier - Notification service for monitoring and alerting on task execution status
• 🤖 mcp-work-history - MCP server for logging AI tool activities with metrics tracking
• 🔊 mcp-make-sound - MCP server that provides system sound playback for macOS

Legacy Projects

• 📊 infoviz - A lightweight JavaScript library for creating beautiful, interactive data visualizations
• ⚡ jsinst - A JavaScript instrumentation and performance toolkit
• 🛠️ infoviz-builder - Visual creator for InfoViz charts
• 🔌 nodehub - A hub for Node.js services
• 🏠 huran.cc - Art e-commerce platform connecting artists with collectors
• 📄 doc-doctor.com - Study abroad document service platform built with Node.js and Express
• 🔧 nodeviz - Node.js visualization toolkit
• 🌐 express-spa - Single page web app approach based on Express.js
• 🔧 discuz-recovery - Recovery Discuz! posts data from old backup
• 📬 feedmaid - An Express application which collects user feedback and visualizes them
• 📱 infoviz-ios - InfoViz on iOS
• 🖼️ node-image-uploader - A Node.js image uploader utility

Latest Blog Posts

• Who Are Friends, Who Are Enemies?
• Seven Types of Fragmentation in the AI Era
• Return of Apprenticeship in the AI Era
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