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Livermore wind farm I’ve experienced frustratingly distracting anxiety for a little over a decade. Although I’ve slowly gotten better at dealing with it, the bulk of the progress was made in the past year. Over the COVID lockdowns, I started practicing deep breathing and meditation and they’ve helped tremendously in...

TFTeacher.com came online on November 23rd. By the latter half of December, the blog has grown to 2,000 average daily readers with a DAU/MAU ratio of 0.4. Here’s how it got there. There are two fundamental parts to building a successful blog. First, there needs to be an opportunity paired...

I like playing Teamfight Tactics, an “autochess” game released by Riot Games a few months ago. At first, I played it casually but I started climbing the ranked ladder quickly. Before I knew it, I was top 1000 NA, and then top 500, and at some point top 300. The...

2019 has been a wild ride. So much has happened and every time I think back, I’m surprised that it’s still 2019. Of all the things I’ve done this year, I’m most satisfied with my progress in dealing with anxiety. It’s been a long uphill battle against the big A...

As I was building SmashVODs.tv, I thought it would be a great idea to add commenting to clips and tournament VODs. What’s a great commenting system? I really enjoy Reddit’s nested comments. So I set out to build it for SmashVODs. Here are the requirements for a Reddit-style commenting system:...

When Riot Games launched Teamfight Tactics, their version of the popular new game genre, “autochess”, I tried it out and was instantly hooked. Autochess games have a simple premise: pick units that the game randomly gives you and place them on a board. Each round, you are pitted against a...

Hawk Hill is a small hill found immediately north of the Golden Gate Bridge. At its peak, it’s 281m above sea level. I’m not much of a bird watcher but according to Wikipedia, the hill is a great lookout point for the “largest known flight of diurnal raptors (bird of...

I’m currently taking the course, CS488: Introduction to Computer Graphics, at the University of Waterloo. The course’s final project is open-ended and you’re expected to create a set of objectives, within reasonable constraints, and implement them into one cohesive graphics program. This post provides a brief overview of the ray...

Fleet Week is an annual United States Navy, Marine Corp, and Coast Guard tradition. For one week of the year, active military ships, usually deployed overseas, return home and dock in various major cities. It serves as both a vacation for the sailors and a celebration of the three branches...

Mount Diablo is situated deep in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area (or East Bay), North of Pleasanton and East of Walnut Creek. The mountain is part of the Diablo Range, a mountain range that stretches from East Bay all the way down to the Salinas Valley. Much of the...

This was the last long distance bike trip that I went on during my internship in San Francisco earlier this year. Up till then, my bike trips have mostly involved biking directly from my Financial District apartment and this meant that I wasn’t able to venture too far from the...

Yesterday I attended a resume critique session for lower year Software Engineers. I was able to critique four or five resumes and noticed a few common mistakes people tended to make. I wish I could’ve gone through more but my time is limited and I hope that through writing this...

To be honest I’m not completely comfortable with writing this post. I guess it’s probably because I’m sharing something about myself that I’m not entirely proud of… sort of like a secret, personal weakness that I’m exposing to the reader. I’ve long been able to cope and even overcome, if...

A while back I was investigating on how I would build a Twitter mapping application similar to the One Million Tweet Map project. One of the first topics I looked into was how I would plot and display each tweet on a map. I was hesitant on using the Google...