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#293 — Jun 29, 2026 by Evan Chen

Played my first scored game of Scrabble yesterday and on my second turn I managed to land ZOOMER on a double word tile with the Z on a triple letter title.

The rest of the game went downhill from there.


#292 — Jun 28, 2026 by Evan Chen

I tried to internally reroute web.evanchen.cc to web.evanchen.cc/index.html but accidentally rerouted every domain on my site. (So, e.g., apply.evanchen.cc also got rerouted to apply.evanchen.cc/index.html, and hence 404's.) Sorry about that! Should be back in working order now.


#291 — Jun 28, 2026 by Evan Chen

rclone sync is destructive and i didn't realize (hence didn't use --dry-run). ouch.

good thing i'm still just testing.


#290 — Jun 28, 2026 by Evan Chen

Trying to transition web.evanchen.cc from Google Cloud to CloudFlare R2. Let's see how it goes!


#289 — Jun 27, 2026 by Evan Chen

Editing a file not under Git version control kind of gives me the heebie-jeebies. It's like there's no one supervising my changes to save me if I need to revert.


#288 — Jun 24, 2026 by Evan Chen

Still makes me happy when I see deer walk by me in the parking lot.


#287 — Jun 21, 2026 by Evan Chen

i tried watercolor painting today and i now retract all my complaints in 283. like, as hard as it was for me to remember how to do certain tasks in procreate, having to do them with physical paint is a gazillion times worse.


#286 — Jun 20, 2026 by Evan Chen

Happy (and mortified) to report that the "Claude proofreads the 18.02 book" campaign uncovered an embarrassingly large number of typos:

42 files changed, 165 insertions(+), 163 deletions(-)

I'm a bit scared but maybe should release Claude on the Napkin as well.


#285 — Jun 19, 2026 by Evan Chen

Excited for Keychain 3 to be out of beta so I can be less confused about what my ssh-agent and gpg-agent are doing.


#284 — Jun 19, 2026 by Evan Chen

i'm so happy that Arch Linux obs-studio finally includes the browser plugin as of 2 months ago

i always hated building OBS from the AUR


#283 — Jun 19, 2026 by Evan Chen

I'm sure I'm just incompetent, but I feel like I spend so much time fighting Procreate. Like… how do I draw a straight line or circle? How do I delete a lasso-selected region? How do I fill a region with a gradient or texture?

I wonder if there's something that's not clicking yet.


#282 — Jun 17, 2026 by Evan Chen

why do people apply the label "powered by AI" to their websites as if that's supposed to entice me


#281 — Jun 16, 2026 by Evan Chen

The speed at which rumdl fixes my bug reports is so impressive to me (e.g. rumdl#669 went from issue report to release in 65 minutes).


#280 — Jun 16, 2026 by Evan Chen

the netflix k-drama 기리고 is about a supernatural phone app that grants a wish then kills you, so of course the show producers made an actual decorative app. which i thought was cute, so i downloaded it a few weeks ago, though i hadn't actually tried it.

then today i accidentally opened the app with my thumb and it was the best jumpscare of all time.


#279 — Jun 15, 2026 by Evan Chen

I still think it would be really funny if we actually renamed the TSTST to "Team Selection Process Math Olympiad".


#278 — Jun 14, 2026 by Evan Chen

can I just say how great the Parasocial posts have been this is actually so good

excited for paradox puzzle hunt 2! but first my team has to pick a faction…


#277 — Jun 14, 2026 by Evan Chen

It took 15 years but I finally got an edition of ELMO named after me 🎉


#276 — Jun 12, 2026 by Evan Chen

on the phone listening to a friend install arch linux for the first time 🥰

WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE 🎉


#275 — Jun 11, 2026 by Evan Chen

A story in amateur form design.

It used to be that on the OTIS financial aid form, people didn't know the difference between annual vs monthly income. (No matter which one I asked for, some students would put the other.)

Solution: ask for both annual vs monthly income, and have JavaScript validate that monthly ≈ annual ÷ 12.


#274 — Jun 10, 2026 by Evan Chen

Now 2 for 2 for getting onto standby flights.