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So last year, I was at an internship, and as part of a project, I was tasked with making a new page on a webapp that just collected data from a few APIs and displayed it. Simple, right? Sure was. But what I quickly discovered was that the codebase was
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There are three stages in becoming at master at something. Amazement, exploration, and commitment. Learning is intimidating. You first look or come in contact with some great piece of work. Maybe a beautiful illustration, a novel, or perhaps even a software project. You look at it, you interact with it,
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It's been a big year, this one. And with the start of 2025, we've reached 3 years of "publication" on this blog. So, I thought I'd blab a bit about what's happened in the last year. Not really about important
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All the way back in high school, just about 5 years ago, I was a freshman looking for clubs to join. For some reason, I ended up joining the speech and debate club at my school. It was already a pretty well established and famous team, and I was dropped
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Once upon a time, there was a version of myself that didn't read manga. But time passed and at some point, I found myself reading scanlated manga from various sources. (Scanlation is taking comics in one language and translating it into another language) But like I mentioned with
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I am greedy. I want more, always evermore. Although not in the materialistic sense. I have a greed to maximize the utility of every second of every day. Every hour that I'm just scrolling social media or mindlessly looking for content on YouTube is another hour I could
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This summer, I redid my entire website, coming up with new goals, designs, and code. As part of the overhaul, I had to come up with a new "tagline", or the text that's displayed in the hero section. As part of that, I decided to describe
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I finished a story today. Which always puts me in a moody retrospective kinda vibe. It is also 12:30 am. Just about the right conditions for the kind of meaningless moody blog writing characteristic of a cliche character in a poorly written YA novel. But sometimes it really is
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What is your purpose in life? When you wake up in the morning, what got you out of bed? What is humanity's purpose? What do we do? What is it that we do best? We do many things for many reasons, but in a lot of ways, we
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It has been a while since the last dev log, huh? I haven't been sleeping on the project though. Let's run through all the updates/changes. First things first: A frontend/control panel. At first, this was just an excuse to install and learn Figma, since
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Just a couple days ago, I 100%ed DDLC+. It's prompted some self-reflection, and I thought I'd write down some things I like. When I was younger, this wouldn't have even occurred to me to write about. But idk, as I think about it,
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There is a problem with AI. I don't mean any of the technical, ethical, or political problems, I'm specifically talking about the problem we have of accurately informing the public about how AI works. Of course, I'm sure I'm not the first