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Hi! Welcome to my website!

My website has gone through many (statically-hosted) variations. They are now linked here as mini projects, please take a look if you're interested! They contain unique content not found on this site.

• Fake operating system

  A fun project I did emulating a bash terminal and a desktop environment in static HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

• Fake Wikipedia entry

  My main website for the longest time. I recreated Wikipedia's page layout and made a fake wiki page for myself. Look here if you want to know a lot more about me. I still update it.

• List of projects

  A list of projects that I've done, both personal and for school.

• Oldest existing version

  Way back my website was styled like this one.

Interests

Here are some hobbies that I have. I'll be updating this with links to my creations soon.

• Rock climbing

  Currently a member at Rock Oasis and mainly lead climb.

• 3D printing

  Recently got a Bambu P1S and am having a lot of fun designing and printing useful things for my apartment.

• Home servers and self-hosting

  Brought out my old laptop (circa 2014) and have been tinkering with self-hosting a variety of services on it, including a few I'm currently coding up myself.

• Language learning

  Currently taking Chinese classes. I don't really like the process of learning languages but I think it's worth it.

• Poetry

  I dabble, mostly humourously :)

I'd also like to learn how electronics works and how to build stuff that use electronics, and I'm currently working on that.

Here are some interests that I used to have that I've grown out of.

• Swimming

  Competitively swam until high school. Favourite stroke is freestyle and favourite race is the 800m free.

• Running

  Competitively ran in high school. Favourite races are the 5km and the 1500m.

• Triathlon

  Had a brief triathlon stint towards the end of elemenetary school and the start of high school.

• Go (board game)

  Played a lot of this in high school and early university.

Links

Here are some links to sites I think are interesting.

Essays

• How to build a low-tech website

  Discusses the justification and approach LOW←TECH MAGAZINE takes to sustainable web hosting.

• Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web (and followup)

  Contains an interesting experiment on web trackers and third-party requests on major websites. Argues for a more open web and encourages experimenting with the small web.

• Meditations on Moloch

  Main takeaway is that once a single competitor sacrifices a virtue to gain a competitive edge, our existent systems push all other competitors to sacrifice that virtue. When all is said and done, no one has a competitive edge and yet that virtue is lost. Continue until doom. (source)

• Is Outdoor Recreation a form of Resource Extraction?

  Argues that some approaches to outdoor recreation have extractive (colonial) aspects and suggests a better way of participating in those activites.

• Against cop shit

  Argues against "pedalogical techniques and technology that presumes an adversarial relationship between students and teachers." I found this quite relatable when I was TAing at UofT.

Resources

Linux

• *NIX Customization Subreddit

  Great inspiration for making your Linux system look cool.

Image dithering

• Dithermark

  Finely-controlled dithering.

• Dither Me This

  Themed dithering.

LaTeX

• LaTeX-Vim Workflow

  Incredible guide on writing LaTeX in Vim.

Food

• Portionizer

  A tool I made to track meal-based food distribution when I was bulking.

Stuff I Use

• EndeavourOS

  Arch-based Linux distribution that I use as my main Linux distribution.

• i3

  Tiling window manager I use in my Linux setup.

• Obsidian

  Notetaking app I use.

• Thunderbird

  Open source email client.

• Fusion 360

  CAD program I use.

Other Sites

• LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

  An interesting website on sustainable tech. Website runs purely on solar energy.

• Crazy Eric

  A sick jacket.

• Floor796

  This has a lot of cool animations.

• lunospace

  Really cool site, one of the inspirations for my fake operating system.