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What I Learned Developing Amelior
The proof-of-concept of Amelior, a health app I’ve been developing for the past semester with a team of colleagues, is complete. This was the first time I’ve touched Android app development in a long time and it’s been quite a journey learning Kotlin. Along the way, I’ve learned a lot...
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Finals Season Stress
Finals season is in full swing currently and it’s been a particularly stressful finals season this semester. This week was my last week of instruction, and next week is full of exams, presentations, projects, and more for my peers and me. I don’t even have that particularly large of a...
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What a Typical Day Looks Like for Me
A typical day for me is hectic and stressful. It’s full of class, 2 jobs, endless meetings, and work, work, work. I wish I had more hours to myself these days, hours to just sit on the grass in the breeze and exist with no expectation of doing anything productive....
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No Post This Week
There will be no post this week, not necessarily because I’ve been going through a mentally rough patch (thankfully), but simply because I’ve been so stressed and swamped lately having to pull in extra hours playing catch-up for Amelior. Best regards.
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How I Hacked a DDR Mat to Fly Drones
This afternoon, I taught what will probably be my last workshop as a student at UC Merced. We were going to be flying drones with Python. ΑΣ had the idea of using her Dance Dance Revolution mat as a controller, so we hacked it to fly drones. Let me explain....
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Where I'm At
I buried my grandmother last Tuesday. Anyone who’s ever had to bury a grandparent probably knows that though the pain of losing them is great, the pain of seeing the grief of your parent, for whom they’ve lost their parent, hits in a different kind of way. Perhaps you come...
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How I Safely Connect to My Desktop From Across the Internet
My everyday ThinkPad X250 laptop is a mobile road warrior, but unfortunately it – as laptops usually do – is not the powerhouse that my desktop at home is. This makes sense; laptops trade power for mobility, and desktops trade mobility for power. However, you can get the best of...
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Everything Will Be OK
The past five or so weeks have been some of the most interesting weeks of my life thus far. I don’t think it’s any stretch of hyperbole to say that I’ve experienced tremendous emotional change in such a short timespan, catalyzed by the people around me who’ve helped me realize...
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Setting Up an Android App Development Terminal Workflow on Linux
You’ll have to drag me by my feet as I dig my nails into the floor, kicking and screaming if you ever want to make me use an IDE. I firmly believe that IDEs are bloat and more often than not get in my way. Believe me, I’ve tried putting...
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The Futile Limitations of Language and the Power of Empathy
I’ve always felt language insufficient to precisely describe emotions due to the biological and cognitive limitations of the tongue and brain. The closest I could come to describing my feelings would be by ironically expressing how incapable I was of describing such emotion, not necessarily because I feel I lack...
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My Naive Opinion on the Cyberwar
I’ve been observing the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the cyberfront ever since the conflict first officially started about a week ago, and it’s been interesting observing how the situation is progressing. I’m sure you’ve heard by now about the Ukrainian government officially creating an “IT Army” of volunteer teams and individuals...
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Thoughts on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
It’s wrong. It’s an act of Russian aggression that will result in thousands of both Russian and Ukrainian lives lost over the insanity of one man, Vladimir Putin. I was completely shocked, though not surprised, when I read the news saying that Russia has formally declared war and is invading...
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Performing NAL Transplants to Recover Corrupted Media
This writeup is also readable on my GitHub repository and team website. Last December, I had a lot of fun competing at X-Mas CTF 2022 hosted by Hecării, Țuica și Păunii with my team IrisSec. We ranked 2nd place out of 982 teams globally. HTsP really knows how to throw...
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How I Hacked a Network to Get Some Sleep
I had some trouble sleeping last night, so I hacked the network and networking infrastructure set up by the property management company that owns the house I’m renting. In doing so, I realized that since all the houses in my neighborhood are the same, I could hypothetically hack any network...
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No Post This Week
There will be no post this week. I’ve been going through a rough patch and could not find the mental capacity to write a post. Best regards.
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Backlogged and Stressed
I’ve been really stressed out lately. My mental well-being has admittedly not been the greatest these past few weeks, and it’s been a bit of a struggle to get myself out of this ditch. A lot of the posts that I’ve been planning have been in limbo with little or...