Libations
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Murder Mysteries
Have you ever played murder mystery games? I played my first one ever recently. It was a game called 讲台上的乌鸦 (The Crow on the Lectern). The concept is pretty sick; it’s like a more complicated game of Mafia where each player is assigned a role, a backstory, and various tasks that they have to accomplish…
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The Joy of Programming
I recently read an article called Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex, which makes the argument that labeling “coding” as fun paints a rosy picture as to what programming is, dismissing the discipline and underlying complexity required to do it. Reading the article is really not worth it, but it did get…
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The Peggies
One band that I listened to quite a bit last year is the peggies. I first heard of them from their song Love in the Tokyo that a friend of mine shared on Discord. When I first listened to them, I thought that they were some obscure band. Although they don’t have a very large…
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Recent Updates
It’s been a while since I’ve updated my blog. I was hoping that when I first started blogging, I would do it more frequently. As a sort of “incentive”, I’m currently self-hosting the blog with DigitalOcean and paying a couple dollars a month to maintain it. Turns out, having to pay for it is not…
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Hesitation
Nothing in the world is worse than hesitating to do something that you want to do. The time between thinking about doing something and then actually doing it is a time filled with emptiness. The impact of this moment of inaction extends beyond itself; it is not simply time that’s lost but potentially even the…
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Constraints
For as long as I can remember, the type of projects that I always used to dread in school were the ones where we could “do whatever we wanted”. My reasons: I ultimately couldn’t do anything; I can think of at least a couple of ways to kill my grades in whichever classes had these…
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I Suck at Cooking
One thing I’m embarrassed about is how bad I am at cooking. I’ve been staying in Whiterock for the last couple of weeks and every single meal is prepared for me by my step-mom. I’m really grateful for being able to eat such amazing meals every day, and I’ve recently wanted to ask her to…
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Sharing Your Thoughts
Initially, I was going to make a post about how rare finding good content on social media was after seeing someone I know make a touching post about how they felt that their life had changed throughout the course of their university life. What changed my mind ultimately is that maybe it’s too negative; I…
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Feedback Loops
When trying to improve, measure, or change something, nothing is more important than a reliable feedback loop. Being able to measure your progress, improvement, or whatever is a key part of knowing if your actions ultimately lead to the results that you want. One bit of advice that I regularly stumble upon is to set…
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Reading
When I was a kid, I used to sit at Chapters and read for hours on end. If I picked up a book that I like, I absolutely had to finish it before I went home. Thank you, grandma, for bearing with me while I consumed volume after volume of Warriors, Redwall, and whatever else…
Got any book recommendations?