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#120 — Dec 13, 2025 by Evan Chen

Latest song on repeat: number one rockstar

#119 — Dec 12, 2025 by Evan Chen

Okay the following testimonial for shellcheck is actually great:

At first you're like "shellcheck is awesome" but then you're like "wtf are we still using bash"

#118 — Dec 12, 2025 by Evan Chen

You know, if I could have a full-time job teaching, like, 18.02 or 18.06 (and nothing else), I like to think I'd do a pretty good job, and I think it'd be pretty fun and rewarding for me. In the shower I keep having these ideas for things I could do if that was actually my job.

#117 — Dec 11, 2025 by Evan Chen

I wonder how different writing Lean code is from writing assembly code.

#116 — Dec 11, 2025 by Evan Chen

every time i read something on twitter i'm glad i'm not on twitter

#115 — Dec 10, 2025 by Evan Chen

I feel at this point I have three different versions of every linter: a system version, a mason version, and a prek version. Feels kind of wasteful.

#114 — Dec 8, 2025 by Evan Chen

Just discovered ln-hunt exists:

Puzzlehunting in another world with my absurd skills

So I was going to catch up on work this week, but maybe...

#113 — Dec 4, 2025 by Evan Chen

claire suggested naming this blog to wall-e(van) which i have to admit is super cute

#112 — Dec 4, 2025 by Evan Chen

I don't know why I didn't make mango earlier this is so much better than wrapping lines by hand

#111 — Dec 3, 2025 by Evan Chen

I've decided to take revenge on all the scrapers poking /wp-admin on my websites by redirecting them to a cool music video. https://github.com/vEnhance/django-bot-rickroll

#110 — Dec 2, 2025 by Evan Chen

Back when I was still a teenager, Rusczyk showed me the sentence "The internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter". I'm starting to feel the same about AI.

#109 — Dec 1, 2025 by Evan Chen

Spotted today in OTIS server logs:

⚠️ Not Found: /robots.txt

#108 — Dec 1, 2025 by Evan Chen

Freaking /wp-admin 404 errors polluting my server logs.

#107 — Nov 30, 2025 by Evan Chen

TIL http://nyarchlinux.moe/ exists this is so funny

#106 — Nov 28, 2025 by Evan Chen

omg the Papago app has a Christmas earmuffs it's so cute

Papago logo with earmuffs

Also I totally did not know this but:

The name Papago comes from the Esperanto word for parrot.

#105 — Nov 28, 2025 by Evan Chen

I finally know the difference between UTF-8, UTF-16, and Unicode. It was actually easy to understand, I just never thought to until now when I was surfing Wikipedia and actually read about character encodings. Wish I had earlier just for feeling less ignorant.

#104 — Nov 26, 2025 by Evan Chen

I am grudgingly trying out Pomodoro for my Anki study sessions to see if helps my concentration. Feels like a death knell.

#103 — Nov 26, 2025 by Evan Chen

Actually I find it kind of cute that in Korean, 결혼하다 (to marry) is an intransitive verb (unlike in English where it's transitive --- so you "marry with someone", rather than "marry someone").

#102 — Nov 25, 2025 by Evan Chen

OTIS-WEB is now on uv too and all the Django applications are in harmony

#101 — Nov 25, 2025 by Evan Chen

Technology tried out today:

Seem to be working as advertised.