Kevin Yap

TLDR: I built a website for finding Regional Championship Qualifiers for Magic: The Gathering that you can check out at surveil.land.

I joined Twitter in December of 2008, making me 12 years old at the time.

2020 was an exciting year for Mac users because Apple finally released computers powered by their own custom silicon.

Back while I was interning at Riot Games, I spent one weekend throwing together a prototype for what would eventually become zeal.gg.

The idea of a new year being a time to reflect and set goals always felt reasonable to me, though I had never set any personally.

I have been a big fan of Advent of Code since it started back in 2015, and have spent every December since diligently solving as many problems as I can right at 9pm.

Sticking with the theme of CTF writeups, here’s one of a fairly simple challenge from PlaidCTF 2019.

Recently, I’ve taken an interest in CTFs: computer security competitions with tasks that have been specifically designed to have a specific weakness.

If I had to pick something from the humanities to study in university, I would probably go with history.

This past semester, I took one of my favourite computer science courses to date — Intermediate Algorithm Design and Analysis.

It’s already the last day of 2015, and I’ve only published a single post this year (and on the first of January, no less).

Recently, I have been making an added effort to seek out and contribute to open source projects on GitHub.

As someone relatively new to the world of programming, I’m always looking for resources that will help me become more experienced.

After learning about Travis CI through browsing open-source projects on GitHub, I became interested in seeing if it was possible to incorporate it into my already existing workflow based on GitHub Pages.

Minecraft is one of my favourite games.

Although Monokai is my colour scheme of choice when coding in Sublime Text 2, it was not the best option for displaying code blocks on my website.

Over the past couple of days, I made the switch to using GitHub as the hosting platform for my website by using GitHub Pages.

When browsing /r/programming a while back, I came across a link to a blog post written by Greg Reda.

One of my favourite genres of music is video game music.

After much consideration, I’ve finally decided to start a blog.