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#127 — Dec 23, 2025 by Evan Chen

Today I learned that "AAAA" records (for IPv6) are named that way because IPv6 address are four times longer than IPv4 addresses. And that you're supposed to say quad-A.


#126 — Dec 22, 2025 by Evan Chen

"rapid life syndrome" is actually such a strong song title


#125 — Dec 21, 2025 by Evan Chen

Today I installed a website I knew nothing about onto a server I knew nothing about, and it was fine because it was all inside a Docker container. I think I better understand the point of Docker now.


#124 — Dec 18, 2025 by Evan Chen

"You don't have to be crazy to be my friend, but it helps."


#123 — Dec 16, 2025 by Evan Chen

I wanted to visit my Korean teacher in January again when I stopped by Boston for Mystery Hunt, but now my Korean is so atrophied I think I'd be too embarrassed.


#122 — Dec 15, 2025 by Evan Chen

I made a folder called ~/Freezer to dump all my old stuff I never look at in and now my ~/Sync folder feels so much lighter


#121 — Dec 15, 2025 by Evan Chen

I miss the time when my workload was light enough that I didn't need to prioritize or triage. (Back then I just used a greedy algorithm: pick whichever task I felt like doing next off a list, without planning ahead.)

All the time spent planning is time not spent working on anything.


#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.