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Briefly then, to summarize everything in a few words, or in only one, I say that I am Don Quixote of La Mancha, also known as the Knight of the Sorrowful Face, and although praising oneself is vile, I am obliged perhaps to sing my own praises, which is un…

Long story short, I use a Cloudflare tunnel and self-host it on an old laptop.

I was introduced to the board game Othello (also known as Reversi) on a recent trip to Japan.

I've been coding in PHP at work for the last 5 years.

A handshake should be firm, but not overpowering.

The end of the year provides an opportunity to look back on all the media and entertainment I enjoyed over the last 12 months.

In November 2015, I started a blog on Blogger.

"There is an invisible monster which follows me around and likes to eat my memories," Marion explains, patiently.

At my current company, there's been a big push to use AI to automate everything we do.

In some sense, the circularity of the financial system is almost poetic; it represents how dependent we all are on one another.

I recently saw a headline about a "solo miner" successfully mining a Bitcoin block and receiving the coveted 3.125₿ mining reward.

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My new blog is officially online.

I'm building a new blog site with Ktor, a Kotlin-native HTTP framework.

After all, people regularly use www.google.com to check if their Internet connection is set up correctly. — JC van Winkel, Site Reliability Engineering pg. 25 Site Reliability Engineering is a collection of essays written by senior engineers at Google des…

I mostly stay away from individual stock investing.

When awake, we see only a narrow set of all possible memory interrelationships.

It's time to update my website.

If you’re used to writing software in the idealized mathematical perfection of a single computer, where the same operation always deterministically returns the same result, then moving to the messy physical reality of distributed systems can be a bit of a…

Screamin' at home, and at phones, we all hurtin' Freakin' ya soul, like the pack, we all herb Pay me to feel with the funk, we all need ya Mixin' the feel with the facts, we all hurt — Isaiah Rashad, All Herb I like stuff.

Every year, I discover more and more, that I'm the same as everyone else.

After reading a few of these pop-social-science books, they all start to sound the same.

I like stuff.

I was in riding in a car with a couple friends recently.

Long after the firefly had disappeared, the trail of its light remained inside me, its pale, faint glow hovering on and on in the thick darkness behind my eyelids like a lost soul.

One of my favourite movies of all time is Ex Machina—a 2014 science fiction thriller about A.I directed by Alex Garland.

The power of just mercy is that it belongs to the undeserving.

In 1886, German architect Mies van der Rohe made a famous declaration: less is more — Mies van der Rohe In 2019, not to be outdone, American Youtuber MattySmokes420 countered with the following propisition LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE GREAT CONTENT!

One fears a number of thing—that one's body could vanish, that human beings may really be what they appear to be at twilight, that one might not be allowed to walk without a stick, that it might be a good idea to go to church and pray at the top of one's…

All grew so fast his life was overgrown, Till he forgot what all had once been made for: He gathered into crowds but was alone... — W.H Auden We are in times of rapid change in almost all aspects of modern life.

I did an internship after I finished my 3rd year of college.

I see a dice.

My latest read was Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.

Authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured. ― Walter Isaacson, The Innovators, pg. 47 Walter Isaacson is a prominent non-fiction writer and journalist who has writ…

The moonlight wreaked havoc on her mind.

The Myth of Sisyphus begins, earnestly, with a simple question: why don't we just all kill ourselves?

1984 is the most well known book I've written a review for so far.

As I stand amid the dense hybrid sorghum, I think of surpassingly beautiful scenes that will never again appear: in the deep autumn of the eighth month, under a high, magnificently clear sky, the land is covered by sorghum that forms a glittering sea of b…

1 一 Just left the airport.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was written by Junot Diaz.

I hadn't heard of Dr.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient.

Everything and More is a non-fiction novel about the history and understanding of infinity in mathematics.

Meaning and being did not lie somewhere behind things; they lay within them, within everything — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, pg. 132 I just finished The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian writer most known for said book after it became an international…

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age Published: Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work—of the

How odd I can have all this inside me, and to you it's just words. — David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, pg. 758 The Pale King is the last novel to be published by David Foster Wallace.

It can be difficult staying focused while reading a long book.

One of my favourite things about Dune was how Frank Hebert wrote realistic, rational characters.

Thinking Fast and Slow is about how we think and rationalize the world around us.

In Cold Blood by Truman Capone was an interesting story, but it was a hard to discern what the story was about while reading it.