South Korea, United States, Cape Verde, and Mexico, all knocked out… My last hope: NORWAY!

Man, Cape Verde has won my heart ever since their first game against Spain. Even more so, after watching their game against Uruguay. That first goal was quality! I hope to see them move past their group stage.

It’s so nice seeing the cultural exchange taking place here in the states. Despite the controveries surrounding FIFA on corruption, I am glad the World Cup is able to bring different peoples together.

Let’s go Korea, 대한민국! Rooting for Mexico too!

Recently, I’ve been making an effort to spend more time reading documentation as opposed to using Claude or ChatGPT. The reason being is because I noticed myself being a tad-bit too overreliant with the use LLMs to aid in development. For example, I’d be so lazy and would inquire Claude for something simple as syntax.

While reading documentation, at times, can become a massive chore; I believe there is merit into dedicating time and effort into it. It builds a type of “character” that desires a deeper understanding at the subject at hand, rather than one that seeks an easy way out.

How do you overcome your adversaries? Do you cut them out of your life, or do you plead to them with hopes that they change their ways? One way is temporary; the other, more difficult, but with much to gain.

I settled with using my last name as the favicon. The hanja 黄, read as the Sino-Korean Hwang (황), means ’yellow.

It’s getting hot over here. Time to prepare for the 6 month long summer again ;_;

I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been paying more attention to cybersec news, but it feels like every week there’s a new Linux local privilege escalation exploit being uncovered. The first one I noticed being Copy Fail, then Dirty Frag, and now allegedly a TOCTOU-based (Time-of-Check Time-of-Use) exploit.

Before my IPhone, I used to have a Samsung during high school. I took a look at the photo album for the first time after I got my new phone and was surprised to see all my photos from back then were saved. They were of my home town and a wave of nostalgia washed over me.

Looking at the videos and photos, I remembered how I tried to surround myself with music all the time. I took an orchestra class for all 4 years of high school, and spent my hours after school in the marching/concert band. I’d also spend hours upon hours learning guitar songs so that I could show off to my friends on Instagram.

There were also a bunch of pictures of my closest, childhood friends. Some I’ve haven’t spoken to for many years. I miss being able to see them nearly everyday. It’s all too bittersweet.

I finally deployed this site! After I finished development on my local environment, I didn’t expect to run into issues during and after the build process. Regardless, I must say that using the Astro framework feels soo nice.

There are still some things left to do; the first being creating my own favicon. How do people even do that? From where do they pull inspiration to create their own logos?

I am thankful for my IPhone 11 for serving me well for the past 5-6 years. Yesterday, I upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S24 and I’ve been liking it so far. But the switch from IOS to android came with some pain points: 1) I’ll have to repurchase some apps, and 2) I’ll have to get used to using Google Maps instead of Apple Maps.

Progress on the website is going well! I heavily referenced (if not fully copied) Mu-An Chiou’s website. I really liked her minimalistic yet functional design.

As time unceasingly, unforgivingly marches forth, I find myself forgetting how to spell words correctly. It’s upsetting.