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Jun 15, 2024
Process
I’ve been developing applications for around 3 years now. Mostly just for fun, and for my personal use. But now, with a new job, I have to work with a team. In this job, I noticed myself making …
Jun 17, 2022
Prevent pinky strain caused by typing all day
Typing all day makes my pinky sore. This is how I got rid of it: Superuser.com: How do I hit the “Ctrl” key without straining my pinky? I press both ctrl keys with the edge of my palm. It’s …
Aug 6, 2021
Introducing Myself
Hi. Starting today, I’ll start this blog as a personal log of everything that I want to say. I mainly plan to add my opinions on some topics that interest me (I’ll stay away from rants) …

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Earl May 16, 2025
People are travelling a lot nowadays, it’s starting to feel like a FOMO pyramid scheme. My social media feed as a GenZ is filled with it but information about building wealth is a rare occurence.
Earl Oct 4, 2024
$> This is the worst multithrading bug of my life \n > so far The worst of your life threading multibug$
Earl Oct 2, 2024
Programming tip: differentiate indexes and counts in code. Index starts at 0, count starts at 1. Count is also equal to array length. In python, one can do this
```
1for count, fruit in enumrate(fruits, start=1):
```
This has saved me a lot of confusion.
Earl Sep 30, 2024
tac is like cat but the output is reversed.
I used it for finding the most recent error log:
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tac err.log | grep -m 1 ERROR
```
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Earl Sep 15, 2024
This is the most important tip: avoid side projects with user accounts.
If you build something that people can sign into, that’s not a side-project, it’s an unpaid job. It’s a very big responsibility, avoid at all costs!
Taken from Coping strategies for the serial project hoarder
Earl Jun 15, 2024
replying to blog.bhread.com/how-to-comment
Hey it works! 🙂
Earl Jun 2, 2024
Just finished the redesign of the blog. It’s missing a lot of features (no dark mode) but I’m really itching to get this out. Here’s a comparison before and after image:
Earl Nov 12, 2023
I recently saw Gwern’s blog . The design and content are great. I want my blog to be like this — a page in the internet that has its own personality and feels crafted. Currently, It’s just a dump of my thoughts and it’s using the default Jekyll theme. Though I like the look of it, I want to add more quality of life features to it while keeping it static.

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