#246 — May 5, 2026 by Evan Chen

Favorite quote I re-read today from Hackers and Painters:

Maybe it would be good for hackers to act more like painters, and regularly start over from scratch, instead of continuing to work for years on one project, and trying to incorporate all their later ideas as revisions.

The things I've built during my mid-late 20's are so much better than the things I built during my early 20's. It's not close.

#245 — May 5, 2026 by Evan Chen

what are the odds that the mailing script for wall.evanchen.cc works first try let's find out xDD

#244 — May 5, 2026 by Evan Chen

actually it warms my heart so much when i see my friends add themselves to https://list.evanchen.cc.

#243 — May 4, 2026 by Evan Chen

TIL the meaning of "wall time" (coming from the clock on a wall). Actually think that's a cute jargon term.

#242 — May 3, 2026 by Evan Chen

Is this too desperate?

Learn to code, please, I implore you, for the love of god, I am so sick of people who just say "idk code" and adamantly refuse to learn, please grow a spine

#241 — Apr 30, 2026 by Evan Chen

I wish dishwashers and laundry machines would have a button that says "wait 10 minutes, then start" instead of just "start". Because I swear to god every time I start the dishwasher, five minutes later I realize I forgot to put something in it.

#240 — Apr 30, 2026 by Evan Chen

Thinking of #37, I think we should enable Insults by default for sudo as well…

#239 — Apr 30, 2026 by Evan Chen

Long live Accuracy. So much Shiv damage yay.

#238 — Apr 27, 2026 by Evan Chen

thank you to the kind soul who figured out the filter rules that let me read calvin and hobbes

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#237 — Apr 25, 2026 by Evan Chen

Spotted while scrolling through my student's submitted solution to IMO 2025/2:

I SOLVED THIS DURING SCHOOL MATH CLASS SINCE IT WAS LITERALLY SO BORING LMAOOOOOO XDDDDDDD

#236 — Apr 24, 2026 by Evan Chen

slay the spire makes flights fly by ㅎㅎㅎ

#235 — Apr 24, 2026 by Evan Chen

Found 크록티칼. More 시연 content~

#234 — Apr 21, 2026 by Evan Chen

the fact that i can just spawn as many domains as i want on *.evanchen.cc is killing my productivity

#233 — Apr 19, 2026 by Evan Chen

TIL that Denmark's postal service stopped delivering letters last year, after 400 years. Little heartbreaking.

#232 — Apr 18, 2026 by Evan Chen

How does anyone get any work done inside a web browser?

#231 — Apr 16, 2026 by Evan Chen

Today I learned you can add the modeline

vim: path+=docs

so that using gf on content.md will cause Vim to look for docs/content.md too. It's about time.

#230 — Apr 15, 2026 by Evan Chen

whoo ale#5115 got merged!

long live rumdl

#229 — Apr 15, 2026 by Evan Chen

You know, I actually like the URL https://web.evanchen.cc/personal.html over the more modern https://web.evanchen.cc/personal/.

I think this might just be Stockholm syndrome but I actually like how it seems more old-fashioned. And tells you about the underlying technology: that it's just an HTML file.

#228 — Apr 14, 2026 by Evan Chen

Apparently in Asymptote you can just do 2P instead of 2*P. I had no idea.

#227 — Apr 13, 2026 by Evan Chen

I feel like people can see what I've been up to lately my checking my GitHub commit history because recently everything I do gets pushed to public repo's.