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The sun with a photon takes a shot at me It runs across the atmosphere Evading dust and wings of birds It penetrates the double-paned window And ricochets off crystals falling in threads Losing its way on the lenses steamed opaque I take them off, trading…

I don’t have a costume this year, so here’s a painting of mine of a pumpkin.

On 2025-10-16, Claude Haiku 4.5 was released.

Recently, I’ve noticed that I don’t have hard decoding enabled in Firefox (my machine uses openSUSE Tumbleweed, and proprietary driver 570 for GTX 2080 video card).

TL;DR: I put the following lines into my .tmux.conf: # Edit current pane in neovim bind e run "tmux capture-pane -S 0 -p -J > /tmp/tmux-edit && tmux new-window 'nvim /tmp/tmux-edit'" bind E run "tmux capture-pane -S - -p -J > /tmp/tmux-edit && tmux new-wi…

Debugging an Erratic WIFI Connection ## Recently, I had a problem with the WIFI connection on my Linux workstation: sometimes, the latency fluctuates quite badly, occasionally to the point of going offline completely.

I originally registered my domain powersnail.com on Google Domain, which seemed to be a popular and well-made product at the time.

After some serious attempts to equip my terminal emulator with the ability rendering images, I’ve given up on it.

What is it all about?

The Config File ## Here’s the config file: # yt-dlp.conf # Output format: album/tracks.format -o "%(album,playlist_title)U - [%(playlist_id)s]/%(track_number,playlist_index)s - %(title)U - [%(id)s].

The Problem ## KDE Plasma is my favorite Linux DE, and it has its quirks and warts.

Today I learned that HTML has a <time> tag which supplements a written date and time with a machine-readable format.1 Supposedly, this helps with parsability, and in turn, good for accessibility.

Nathan Cole talking about shifting the balance to the pinky during one of his master classes.

Standing opposed to OpenAI’s DALL-E and Midjourney, is the open sourced model Stable Diffusion1.

TLDR: To use grub2-theme-preview on openSUSE, you need to override the paths of firmware and ovmf: export G2TP_GRUB_LIB=/usr/share/grub2 export G2TP_OVMF_IMAGE=/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x86_64-code.bin Running after installing grub2-theme-preview and it’s depe…

I’m excited to publish my new project, Score In URL, a simple, privacy-friendly, sheet music sharing service, where the entire content is encoded in the URL itself as a query parameter.

Preludio (Prelude in some version) is one of Bach’s best violin pieces.

Summary ## A short, inspirational book about how to be a productive artist.

When you are tweaking your blog, creating a new CSS rule, or making a new theme, it is not uncommon to break pages that you are not looking.

糖色: Chinese Caramel Color ## The iconic Chinese cuisine Red Braised Pork Belly has an appetizing, deep, brick-red color.

Chord and Bowing Planes ## How do we roll a clean chord on the violin?

Theme-less Hugo ## As popular as theming is, I can’t help but feel unsatisfied by a plug-and-use theme made by someone else.

Inspirations ## My recipe is loosely adapted from this recipe, with sparks of inspiration collected from here and there.

Cooking for Engineers ## I bumped into a site called Cooking for Engineers today, and at the bottom of some recipes, they have this succinct table that summarizes the procedure in a refreshingly simple manner: 3 chicken breasts brine season cook medium-hi…

Summary # The book was the execution of ten people, carried out on an isolated island.

菜谱改编自 MASAの料理ABC1.

Summary of Pride and Prejudice ## A young intelligent woman, Elizabeth, had a tendency to judge people quickly.

An Overall Review ## Tom Sawyer is a kid living in a small town, under the caring of his aunt.

在 codefights 上做到了一个很有意思的题。

The Apple Boxes Problem ## The problem can be simply put: Input: $k$ Output: let $r$ be the sum of the square of each even integer no larger than $k$, and $y$ be that of the odd.

Introduction to the Problem ## The question asks the programmer to validate whether a string is a valid representation of a number.

Overview ## A processor accesses a sequence of instructions when it operates.

Fractal # naming: fractional dimension Definition: ## self-similar $$\to$ when zoomed in, look the same Types: ## Exactly self-similar Statistically self-similar Exactly Self-similar ## If zoomed in, there is no way to tell that we have zoomed in.

An example: Transpose for i in rows for j in cols b[i][j] = a[j][i] However, it might be the case that we do not know the size at compilation time, so we cannot statically declare this 2D array.

This is a simple implementation of binary search tree implemented by C++.

Generating Sentences ## sentence vs. sentential sentence all symbols belongs to terminals (a valid element of the language) sentential may contain non-terminals, an intermediate form during sentence production Example: #### For a language where $V_N = {P,…

Generative Grammar ## There are several views of defining a language.