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in life there is rain

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is how in the early 2000s internet, people just posted what they wanted.

Yerkes-Dodson Law

https://people.duke.edu/~dandan/webfiles/PapersUpside/Large%20Stakes%20Big%20Mistakes.pdf

391. Perfect Rectangle

Leetcode Link Problem Given an array rectangles where rectangles[i] = [x i , y i , a i , b i ] represents an axis aligned rectangle. The bottom left point of the rectangle is (x i , y i ) and the top right point of it…

355. Design Twitter

Leetcode Link Problem Design a simplified version of Twitter where users can post tweets, follow/unfollow another user, and is able to see the 10 most recent tweets in the user's news feed. Implement the Twitter class:…

japanese tweet ex1

R18 = Rated 18 or older いらすと = illustration 垢 = アカウント but Japanese twitter people shorten it to 垢 because its あか and it saves a character. とか = thinks like this 鍵掛けてて = when your key is locked 「申請してください」= please apply みたいなのあるじゃないですか。 =…

stuck on repeat

Life has kind of entered a comfortable lull.

code flow

coding is like flying.

the catharsis of comms

I almost feel like I reference counter-strike too much as an influence in my life, but when you are locked in your room most of the time, save for school, math competitions, and science olympiad, you only have so many options.

Unfair

A conversation about fairness, equality, and the wording of the Constitution.

Treehacks Application

I spent a while writing this application and included some personal stuff so I thought I might as well make it a blog post as if I was being asked these questions in an interview lol. Why do you want to come to TreeHacks 2021?* I’m…

Lonely-CLA

So yeah its a little sad that its gonna be this empty for a while, but on the flip side, I’ve never gotten a photo of Royce with no people in it, so that’s nice 🙂

When people ask you to do stuff

When people ask you to do something that you don’t want to do, or at least something that you lean towards not doing, or something that maybe you might want to do, but it would just give you stress to do (like start a startup), consider…

I wish I could go back to coding for fun

Rather than coding for a job, or worrying about getting users, or worrying about getting funding, or anything related to getting a startup off the ground. I think that’s why I’ll probably never make a startup. I don’t enjoy the process,…

My Tech Setup

This is a living document for my setups on my devices. my aero 14 gaming pc Mac I use a Mac for Unix compatibility + ease of use with various apps (e.g. Docker) and because its a reliable, powerful machine although it doesn’t have a…

Meta for easy full stack web app

I learned about react hooks today, about a year late I know, and I got really excited. Especially about useReducer()! See this video: why I love use reducer Ok but I noticed a problem. One of my friends was using react hooks with a…

Umlaut = downward circumflex 你们都认识John吗? 他们都在上海。 明天我们都可以去。 你们都用wiki吗? 我们都要冰水。 我们两个都爱你。 你爸爸和你妈妈都是美国人吗? 我和我太太都不吃肉。 你们两个都喜欢中国菜吗? 她和她老公都没有工作。 也都: 我很好,我的家人也都很好。 大人喜欢这个餐厅,孩子们也都很喜欢。 cāntīng = restaurant 餐 cān = food 厅 tīng = hall 旋转餐厅…

Getting work done while out

I’m out a lot with family these last days of winter break. What can I get done while out? My current class schedule is fixed for now (I think) I could look for apartments in apartments.com I guess. But it’s hard to use that website on…

Aggro People

Music for this post: superstar by bignic Aggressive people They come in all shapes and sizes. They could be your family members, your childhood friends, your teachers (this one is pretty likely), etc. What do you do if you want to just…

Why make a blog (and why Blogger)?

First why blog at all? You should make a blog if you already enjoy writing because you have a lot of thoughts and you would like to share then with the world. I knew I would want one long ago, so I made kimeiga.github.io/blog, a blog…

Project Grind

I know grinding on the same project for a while can seem tiring but remember that people can’t see the unfinished projects you have, they can only see what you have finished. If you truly want to make something that other people can use…

On Religion

hi uh It's been a rather long while since I wrote on this blog. Since then a lot has happened. One of the things that I want to talk about was something that I have been thinking about since I watched some review for…

Bahunya - 10KB classless CSS framework

I created a 10KB classless CSS framework Bahunya has responsive typography, navbar, syntax highlighting, and much more. https://kimeiga.github.io/bahunya/ Why I created Bahunya because I wanted a CSS framework that I…

Broken Mechanics in the Game of Life

Life is a Game Life has a series of innate game mechanics (like physics and human biology), and game mechanics created by its players (like international laws). It is a system of said mechanics with a large playerbase,…

Rapid-Prototyping and Perfectionism

Either finish something as quickly as possible, or as completely as possible. The closer you approach the center of these two extremes, the larger the percentage of your lifespan you’ll spend working on the project.…

Time to Learn Vim

I know this has been said a thousand times but if you happen to be in a situation where you only have a low end laptop and you want to make a Vue app or code anything really, do give Vim a try. I downloaded Visual…

Frankly, I think too much

Thinking a bunch can be useful when you need to come up with ideas or be creative in a short time frame. Or when you need to produce a lot of content that can be fueled by thought in a short time frame, like this post,…

Why I Love "You're Welcome"

I'm usually pretty critical of English. I despise the lack of regularity, the constant exceptions, the strange spelling, the complicated tenses, the way loan words are incorporated without modifying their spelling, etc.…

The Beauty of Working with One's Hands

I'm a computer science student I work on the computer every day, designing this Jekyll site or my portfolio, making an online fighting game or a multiplayer shooter, doing a hackathon project, etc. When I am not working…

My Huge Thank Yous

This page exists just to say thank you to all the people whose work I've used and people who have supported me in life. 🙇‍ Thanks to Alexey Kryukov for designing Old Standard TT, the charming serif font that I use for…