dynamicallystatic.org

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:24:00 +0800

One month experiment: using a very old low-end phone with the latest Android version as a daily driver. The device lags as expected, but usable. The friction of using it is an advantage I’m seeking.

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:44:00 +0800

Suhyun’s (AKMU) crystal-clear voice always cleanses my polluted soul.

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:19:00 +0800

I am tired of this “You should grind now, but live later.”.

● Recently played

Mon, 25 May 2026 20:07:00 +0800

Don’t You Fake It by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Falling into your eyes Record by aimyon
Jealous of Cats by aimyon
The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance

I’ve been playing “Don’t You Fake It” multiple times this past month, and will listen to it now one last time. It really is good. I had the pleasure of seeing them playing live and have a very good time. Childhood memories did came back.

Whenever something’s bothering me, Mychem has been always a go-to listen. I’ve been listening to them in every stage of my life now.

● Bare minimum phone telephony setup (LTE-only pager)

Thu, 07 May 2026 22:32:00 +0800

Rooted Android phone
Disabled IMS (VoLTE, VoWIFI)
Lock the LTE band to the lowest band available
No voice calls
SMS via SGd

● Recently played

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:23:00 +0800

I like to listen to music, A LOT. I am now stepping away from the easy access of streaming random songs and letting the algorithm play the next songs and just going the old fashioned way of downloading the songs for offline playback. I will mostly listen to a full album instead of just one song.

I am now adding regular posts of the albums I listened to. Here’s the initial list from the last two weeks.

Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire (1997) by Hatebreed (Metalcore, Hardcore)
Supremacy (2006) by Hatebreed (Metalcore, Hardcore)
Heard That There’s Good Pasta (2020) by Aimyon (J-pop)

Listening to Hatebreed is a huge motivational boost.

I really like Cigarette and Potpourri Leaf as always from that Aimyon album.

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:14:00 +0800

How cellular networks can find you: https://nickvsnetworking.com/somebodys-watching-me-adventures-in-cellular-locating

● Destroying Gapps

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:34:00 +0800

I am using my Pixel 2 with LineageOS with Gapps as a secondary phone as a catch all for the proprietary apps that I need. There’s always an itch to completely erase Gapps from this phone and use microG instead. The thought of Google services and apps having root access from this phone irks me a lot.

I decided to remove my dependency on Gapps now and won’t even use microG to replace it. Any app that would cry about the missing Google services, I will not use it indefinitely. This is a challenge as most apps really want these services specially the proprietary ones, but I suspect that this will simplify my phone usage as I will drop a lot of apps in the long run and be left with a few. This is just about the same setup as my main phone, just with all the proprietary apps.

I am willing to embrace inconvenience.

I am always trying to own my device, not the other way around.

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:41:00 +0800

“Seed your mental garden from only the most thought-provoking, inspiring sources. Solitude is your water; contemplation a nurturing force.” — You Sould Quit Reddit by Jacob Desforges

Reddit has been big for me for more than a decade now, at least time spent on it. The first few years has been great, I did enjoy being on it even being just a lurker. But nowadays, it just behaves like other big social media. Entries are just constant attention grabbing, noticeably fake, and just exposes being entitled. All of these are not worth it. I need to impose less inputs.

“Besides darling, we may be dark, but let me share a secret with you, sometimes darkness can show you the light.” — David Draiman of Disturbed, talking to a child during a concert

One aspect of heavy metal music which is often overlooked by outsiders is that even though the music is aggressive, the message is positive and raw. It is welcoming. It is not bounded by the norms, and yet still deliver good ideas. Once resonated, that cathartic feeling stays with you, and you will find comfort.

\m/

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:54:00 +0800

how to properly ask for help https://blog.avas.space/ask-for-help-guide/

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:36:00 +0800

I’ve been back with Solus on both my computers. I’ve been seeing too much irrelevancy with regards to the relevant systems. I’ve used Solus way back 8 years ago and daily drive it for a quite a while. I hope I’ll get the same calm computing now too.

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0800

The human machine will finally bleed
The human machine will finally cease to be

So set yourself free
And disengage from reality

— Disengage by Suicide Silence

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:25:00 +0800

There’s no actual present moment for humans. Everything they perceive has some miniscule time delay for their brain to process and create what seems to be the present moment. Physics can back this up.

Maybe living in the moment should be stopped because it is pointless, instead, just exist.

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:02:00 +0800

Listening to Apink’s MY MY during my bike ride going home, together with clear skies and the moon directly in front of me, feels like everything’s still fine after all. A short ride yet fulfilling at the same time.

I discovered that I now have a proper device to test OpenEUICC. I will be tinkering for the next few days.

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:02:00 +0800

It made me realise how rare it’s become to just… talk. To text about anything and nothing. To rant and rave about something that’s happened in our lives. To just say hello or how you doing without a prompt, or to check in without a goddamn link attached.

https://nickhayes.bearblog.dev/nobody-actually-talks-anymore/

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:04:00 +0800

Bīnasuberuto

https://youtu.be/_dbO5xhpMKM

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:12:00 +0800

Day 0…

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:25:00 +0800

I got the dream device. I managed to successfully use the exploit to modify the software. I like all about it, even the community surrounding it. They are laid back, savvy, and fun having conversations with. How they prioritize things is aligned with mine.

One thing that my mind clings to is to let go of all other things that needs to go. It’s fine to do different things.

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:03:00 +0800

The Boston Drama (Live at The Cozy Cove) - Typecast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftMJYsbyHjY

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:49:00 +0800

“An effort to be secure is an insecure act.”

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:32:00 +0800

It is what it is.

● Thoughts after an eight-hour bike ride

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:55:00 +0800

Noisy and crowded main roads, and keeps on getting worse as days go by.

Clouded mind, weak body, but still made it until the end. Maybe it’s all in the mind.

J-pop still is very enjoyable when paired with biking. I only play music when it is really safe to do so, and sometimes to drown out the vehicle noise. Perfect pair.

I still managed to read while on a break.

It always seems like everything is going to be alright while in the saddle. It’s always a different kind of time.

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 14:37:00 +0800

My body seems to be degrading every single day. Well, everybody is, but I do feel it now more than ever.

I started listening to full albums again. Precious times, too pure.

I hope to finish at least one book before this year ends.

Ciao.

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:10:00 +0800

出来損ない
出来そうもない
楽しむこと
仕事やめること

うっかり落ちてく地獄に
ふと吸い込まれて　つい転んで
納得いかない全てに
もう仕方なく身体を投げやるのです

— シガレット by あいみょん

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKOtlLeMt0I

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:25:00 +0800

I walked a lot, and still doing it today and did it yesterday. I get back into reading as well. The body is very tired compared to riding a bike. I’ve gone to new places, including on a riverside.

When I’m finally naked and standing in the sunlight
I’ll look back at all of this selfishness and foolish pride
Laugh at myself
Laugh at myself
Laugh at myself
Laugh at myself
Laugh at myself

— Parking Lot by Mineral

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:10:00 +0800

I am writing this on a place where ocean waves are crashing, and there’s a sound of water from a small creek nearby. It all felt right. Yet, somehow, I need to get back a few hours later to doing things I quite despise now. That’s always been the case, and I want to stay where I am right now in time and space.

I am also getting a ~100kB/s speed using this phone with a very old modem at this place. I remember when I started digging around the internet, relying on 2G with 10-30kB/s. Those times were very precious for myself.

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:55:00 +0800

“Why is every place, every product company now accepted to be a data aggregation company as well? Why is my data the cookie jar that companies frequently get their hand stuck in while acting entitled? Hello, I already paid you, why are you not ashamed of your obvious greed?” https://blog.avas.space/cookie-jar/

● Dark theme is live

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:51:00 +0800

After much deliberation, finally the dark theme is now available on this site. The switch should work automatically when the browser’s preference and theme is dark mode.

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0800

“You won’t make it out alive!”

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:39:00 +0800

I am being inspired by this post: Rewiring the brain. My attention span is nuts as of late. I drift so very often and I am wasting time, mostly on the internet. I am going to impose an experiment starting today, no Reddit and Youtube for four weeks straight. These two consume most of my time and it is time take these away. I am anticipating of letting go of other things as well.

● SIM Number Setter

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:29:00 +0800

SIM numbers on the card are often “unknown” when you change carriers, keeping the same number, or requested for a replacement SIM card. This does not mean that you have a null number, the carrier still knows you’re using the same number, however, the card itself don’t store that data. Some apps needs to access this data.

Old Android versions have this feature that you can edit this entry directly and write to SIM itself.

If you’re on Android, and have a rooted device, you can do this by using SIM Number Setter by KieronQuinn. What it is:

SIM Number Setter is a small Xposed module that invokes normally unused Android System code to set the “subscriber number” on the device’s SIM card. This is the number displayed in the system settings, and used in apps such as Google Messages, as well as being available to third party apps with sufficient permissions.

Being an Xposed module, you need Lsposed module as well for it to work. The number you set will persist on the SIM card.

Check it out: https://github.com/KieronQuinn/SIMNumberSetter

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:57:00 +0800

New hobby: locating, finding, and discovering cell towers.

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:33:00 +0800

The things that are a waste of time may be pointless, but that is exactly what makes them worth doing.

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:56:00 +0800

“It’s almost like writing my thoughts helps iron the wrinkles in my mind that come up during the day.” https://minimal.bearblog.dev/i-write-to-think-and-understand/

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:25:00 +0800

Prey was the first anthem we wrote for the album. The whole song was written about the idea of worshiping unhealthiness. Everything about celebrity is so fucking toxic these days. We’re attracted to toxicity. But it’s also seen as the thing to strive for, because apparently if you reach that status, that’s success, and it’s crazy. And to get there you’re being told that you’re not enough. That simply being a human is not enough. And it’s fucking savage! But that’s what advertising is. Make someone feel like they’re missing a part of themselves and then sell them that part of themselves.

— Winston McCall on Kerrang!

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 12:44:00 +0800

Pros of using a 2GB RAM smartphone in 2025: you can’t multitask as most apps use more memory now, which makes you focus on what you’re really doing with the device.

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:32:00 +0800

This is the truth
The only time you’ll here it
I write it down because it seems so hard to say it

These are my thoughts written down on paper
It’s my only savior
From not saying what I want to say
There are my thoughts that are on my mind
Moments that haven’t yet been defined
And I don’t know if you could ever understand
These are the things I can’t say when we’re alone

— Truth Of My Youth by New Found Glory

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0800

Challenge: only using low network frequency bands.

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:03:00 +0800

Giving up root access on Android just to make certain apps work is a path I’m still not willing to take.

● Being sociable on heavy music events

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 12:11:00 +0800

I like going to concerts. The atmosphere, the fans, and the music we share together creates an invisible bond which makes the few hours of the event a different world.

I’ve had a fair share of genres, but I observed that, I’ve been very sociable on heavy music concerts and festivals. I am usually going alone on these events, and I do feel very comfortable with approaching and being approached by other people. The fans also are very different on opposite genres. I interacted on four different people at the last concert I attended and I even went to the event location with another fan who recognizes my shirt which is from a heavy music festival, and wondered whether I am also going to this specific show myself.

Although other genres have this comparable feeling of catharsis, for me, it is much bigger on this type of music. I think that this feeling extends even before the start of show and affects my overall attitude. I also believe that since this type of music is not that mainstream, the types of people are somewhat similar to myself.

This video is maybe telling something for this.

● Globe Telecom (PH) Access Point Name (APN) fix

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:41:00 +0800

Using custom ROMs, I’ve always encountered mobile data connection issues with Globe Telecom. The mobile data won’t connect and establish proper connection to access the internet. The problem lies generally on the access point name (APN) configuration.

The Fix

APN: www

APN type: default, supl

APN protocol: IPv4/IPv6

APN roaming protocol: IPv4/IPv6

The mobile data should connect to the internet now. No need to modify IMS and MMS APNs.

There are problems still with this telco, for myself, as of writing this. First is that VoLTE/VoWIFI is still not activated by default, unlike the other local telcos. Another one is the stupidly huge price for promos, be it calls, texts, and mobile data.

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:23:00 +0800

Still got something left to prove
It tends to keep things movin’ while everyone around me says
My last days are looming overhead
But what the hell do they think they know?
My head’s above the water, while they drown in the undertow
[…]
If you take it from me, live your life for yourself
‘Cause when it’s all said and done, you don’t need anyone else
Come on!

So let’s get back to when everything seemed perfect
Not a worry in the world, tell me was this all worth it?
I get what I want, so everyone’s always judging me
I’m not afraid of anything, I’ve got the whole world in front of me

— All I Want by A Day to Remember

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:22:00 +0800

It’s kinda silly to think that I am listening to a podcast named “Mac Power Users”, yet I don’t have any Apple devices and even interest on it, nothing against on that ecosystem though. I am just curious about a certain guest they interviewed.

I am trying in doing things in single-task, no context switching every time anymore.

A salamander just crossed in front of me while as well at this moment.

I am somehow treating this site as a journal now, huh.

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:25:00 +0800

“The problem is, we live in a world where “nothing” has been rebranded. You can’t just sit. Now it has to be “mindfulness.” You can’t just walk. It’s a “hot girl walk.” You can’t lie down. It’s “body rest yoga.” No. I want the old-school version of nothing. Just staring into space for five minutes, or maybe an hour (…or six), without someone turning it into a self-care routine. For the love of all that is holy, just let me do nothing in peace, thank you very much.” https://musingsfromatangledmind.com/2025/09/23/more-nothing-please/

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:40:00 +0800

For years of using OpenWRT on my router, it is my first time trying “Attended Sysupgrade” to upgrade the firmware. The process is just smooth. It always brings a smile when I update open-source projects because of the development involved around the community.

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 01:22:00 +0800

I will take the challenge of having a bad network reception. ‘Bout time to disconnect!

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 21:50:00 +0800

“The least little bit can do so much.” https://btxx.org/posts/bare/

Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:05:00 +0800

Unfortunately, we always seem to think that switching the service or curating the feed differently works to alleviate that completely. I guess it feels that way for a while, but looking on from the outside, I can’t see much change. You’re still spending hours in the same space that frightened and stressed you for years and continues to. No matter what big platform you turn to, your brain still recognizes the feed, the numbers, the danger of comments, the fear of getting dragged. Your heart drops when you see too many notifications or a DM. You’re still always in position, anticipating the next asshole to come along. You’re frightened. You have no trust. Someone’s criticism about a thing is always, somehow, vaguely a dig at you and your worth to you.

— communicating with social media users | ava’s blog

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:39:00 +0800

I successfully replaced the battery of my old low-end daily driver phone. Unlike the previous aftermarket ones, this seems to have a functional BMS (battery management system), so all sensors work as expected. Even being low-end, it still runs fine on latest Android version as of writing. Here’s to another 3+ years of usage at least.

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 02:00:00 +0800

I am reading a lot of blog/personal sites these days. I like it so very much. One post I enjoyed is the one below. I can’t believe how these LLMs are rampant everywhere now, and the effects are becoming worse every time.

So there’s a lot of anecdotal evidence floating around that using ChatGPT essentially trains people out of thinking for themselves, and now there’s more and more scientific evidence coming in that says the same thing. If you turn to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and so on every time you run into a problem that you can’t immediately solve by yourself, pretty soon you will have lost the ability to do so in the first place.

— Is the ability to think going to become a rare and valuable skill? - 82MHz

● Device reset

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 01:01:57 +0800

I have a habit of tinkering too much with my devices, whether changing operating systems frequently, or compiling one myself. I do enjoy doing it but, I am at a point where don’t learn anything new and I am just doing it mindlessly. I can easily change operating systems because I don’t rely heavily on applications on mobile and I use few software on my PC. I have a dedicated drive for my data for both desktop/laptop and mobile so nothing really will be lost easily. Nothing’s holding me back.

Those who are familiar with distro-hopping and flashing custom ROMs can relate to this. It’s fun. I just don’t know why I haven’t outgrew it still, and it’s been around a decade as well since I started.

So for one last time (famous last words?), I did setup all my devices from scratch and leave it as minimal as possible and will ride with it for a long time without modifying the operating systems. This will help myself dedicate a lot of time on other things I am putting off for a while. This seems like a cold turkey, but I will stand by it.

Here’s my current setup:

I actually like how minimalist stock GNOME looks. I don’t modify anything and leave everything as is. Tinkering with a tiling window manager is out the window.

In the case of smartphones, I currently have a lot of old units from 2017. I’ve been messing with them a lot with custom ROMs and other things. The community development scene is still active for these old devices and can still boot the latest Android version. But right now, I picked one to stick around to. I really don’t do much with phones aside from basic stuff and try to avoid using it to browse the web.

Goodluck to myself, now do those other things you’ve been meaning to do.

F-Droid on sideloading

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:31:57 +0800

Over half of all humankind uses an Android smartphone. Google does not own your phone. You own your phone. You have the right to decide who to trust, and where you can get your software from.

— marcprux on F-Droid

I’m glad to see some initiatives being brought open with this, such as keepandroidopen.org. Although alternative mobile operating systems exists, but with the domination of iOS and Android—especially for the required banking and government apps—make it hard to daily drive such systems. Using two phones, one with stock ROM and one with custom ROM without Gapps, is a solution, but it can be a chore.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:28:00 +0800

Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things (2015)

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:02:00 +0800

Won’t let a world gone mad ever bring me down
Gave everything I had to turn it back around
Cause our time’s worth something bigger than both you and me
I can’t live my life always backing down
I gotta do this right, then they can’t make a sound
Cause I’m not here for nothing, least I can say
I stand for something

You and me, we stand for something

— All Signs Point To Lauderdale by A Day To Remember

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 23:01:00 +0800

In July 1925, on the island of Helgoland, Werner Heisenberg made a breakthrough that gave rise to modern quantum theory. A century later, physicists are still exploring what it truly means.

― 100 Years of Quantum: Perspectives on its Past, Present, and Future by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Fun discussion.

Kawaii metal in Manila

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:11:00 +0800

Joey Dizon interviewing BABYMETAL on PULP Magazine:

Moametal: We’re all people who love metal, who want to break down the barriers in metal and who want to see metal thrive[…]

Su-metal: Our number one goal moving forward is to headline a metal festival. […] We want to show that we are the next generation of metal, and we believe that headlining a festival is the ultimate destination for that… so we’d love to do it someday!

Momometal: It was just so much fun! We were definitely excited to see what kind of audience was waiting for us–and we got to see them at the show and made the best memories with them. I was so hyped when I heard the BABYMETAL chant before we even took the stage!

This has been so much fun and refreshing. I’ve been overwhelmed after the show. It’s so good. I can’t help but feel emotional during ‘Road of Resistance’; it was my the first time hearing it live.

Don’t think, feel.

\m/ 🦊

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

● Back to my roots

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 22:49:00 +0800

I had enough time wandering so much. Being mostly distracted and easily hooked on things that really does not matter to me if given thought.

Time to go back to my roots and focus on that.

Orion’s belt is directly on front of me while writing this. Wake up! It is time to disrespect your surroundings.

PS: Cheers to ten years, Teudoongi!

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:47:00 +0800

Seiya soiya

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:46:00 +0800

We are the kids from yesterday, today.
https://youtu.be/YXiLHIYqb_Y

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:05:00 +0800

Schools that boast their rankings for marketing to get more students, seem to me like they’re just focused more on other things rather than on education itself. The advertised employment rate of such schools fits in that circle as well. This somewhat tells what the system is all about.

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:01:00 +0800

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

● The need to win

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:43:00 +0800

When an archer is shooting for nothing
He has all his skill.
If he shoots for a brass buckle
He is already nervous.
If he shoots for a prize of gold
He goes blind
Or sees two targets
He is out of his mind!

His skill has not changed. But the prize
Divides him. He cares.
He thinks more of winning
Than of shooting-
And the need to win
Drains him of power.

from “The Way of Chuang Tzu” by Thomas Merton

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:37:00 +0800

https://youtu.be/lXwJbj9UpMg

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:05:00 +0800

Let’s migrate all from my self-build custom Android ROMs to the available official builds at the moment, trying to save some by avoiding servers for now. No Google Apps (GApps) and even microG for my main daily driver.

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:43:00 +0800

It takes a large appetite to bet on your one wild, precious life and decide what is best for you, to get offline, even when the whole world is shouting at you to better get yourself on LinkedIn, create Instagram to not miss out on the whole entire world having fun, to be well suited for life in the 21st century.

Man, I was just so tired of losing my time, attention, energy, humanity to Big Data.

There is no reward for losing all your life, so decide.

Take your freedom.

It’s free to be free.

You decide.

- Mehret Biruk

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:37:00 +0800

Just switched after a long while from Debian Stable with XFCE to Debian Testing with GNOME. GNOME does feel smoother now even on old hardware. ^_^

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 08:37:00 +0800

Hell yeah! \m/

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:36:00 +0800

Few things I’ve been playing around these days:

I just recently found out that Netlify CMS, which I have been using to generate posts easily on this site has been rebranded to Decap CMS. I went ahead and changed the necessary moving pieces, which is not a lot, and I have been using it now typing this.
Updated Hugo (which statically generates this site) to v0.127.0, thankfully nothing breaks so far.
I am now signing my Android custom ROM builds with my own private keys. This is for the new requirement of Play Integrity that checks now if the ROM is signed or not.
Ditching again Google Apps on my phone for microG, hopefully I won’t revert back due to some apps that requires it.
Changing the site colors to light mode.

I’m now inspired to add the tech I’m using here, as well as updating my site again, credits to Derek Sivers for the motivation for all of this.

Listen also to Choi Yuree here. :)

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 17:26:19 +0800

Stillness……

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 13:55:45 +0800

After a month of trials, I finally built a stable custom Android rom for my old device. I now even tried applying backported security patches. All is good.

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:13:30 +0800

Frequent evening bike rides while stargazing with clear skies on a remote area has been the highlight of these past few days together with my listening parties.

Some xkcd strips while I’m at it:

'No Dead Ends'

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:09:12 +0800

Robot:

The bicycle is a freedom machine. Not only will it take you where you want to go under your own power, but it disdains the bonds of pavement and settled map as well. In fact, the only thing that holds the bike back is a lack of imagination, which explains why kids ride their bikes in places adults wouldn’t think to.

[…]

Between you and me, I suspect that the simple act of riding a bike regularly will actually expand your mind, or, at the very least, your sense of where you can get under your own power. In this sense, I pity the fools who move themselves only by automobile. They take dead-end signs literally. They live in a horribly proscribed world.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:21:48 +0800

Rise up early, tried to chill for a bit, remembered to fix some deprecated functions in Hugo, and suddenly this website is now using v0.102.0 version, which is latest as of today. Nice holiday.

● Keeping up with Hugo

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 17:06:24 +0800

I’m starting again to make some minor tweaks in the site and these changes are mostly done in Hugo. I am using a version from two years ago and I need to keep up with the current one just for fun.

Apparently, I can’t build the site using the versions staring from v0.93.0 so I am currently stuck in v0.92.2 which is still fairly impressive as I haven’t done any major changes in the code to accommodate such feature updates.

When the right time comes, I’ll sit with this again to rewrite some things to use the current version. Well, if it happens in the near future. I am just glad to be back writing some nonsense again in this space. Cheers.

● Update

Sun, 27 Mar 2022 09:52:40 +0800

I may have found some rad people, very interesting individuals. This might be a start of new outlook. I’ll hang around for awhile.

After some time, I may have been settling down.

● Emo

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:29:14 +0800

On and on, we carry through the fears
Oh, oh, oh
Disappointed faces of your peers
Oh, oh, oh
Take a look at me, ‘cause I could not care at all

Do or die, you’ll never make me
Because the world will never take my heart
Go and try, you’ll never break me
We want it all, we wanna play this part

I won’t explain or say I’m sorry
I’m unashamed, I’m gonna show my scars
Give a cheer for all the broken
Listen here, because it’s who we are

I’m just a man, I’m not a hero
Just a boy, who had to sing this song
I’m just a man, I’m not a hero
I don’t care

Fri, 24 Dec 2021 21:23:50 +0800

Read manga for the whole day and rediscovering my previous music taste. This week has been good so far.

● Back to usual

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 17:24:38 +0800

I fully used Google Services for my Android phone for the past 3 months. That is quite a long time for me for quite a while. Since I’ve been encountering some stuttering and frequent slow downs, I decided to finally wipe the memory and flash another ROM, not fully ungoogled but still with microg.

With my use case for that duration, I really do not need Google services. Time to dig deep again to current Android development, I hope I can keep up.

On the desktop side, openSUSE Tumbleweed still gives me excitement everyday of using it. This past few weeks also has been big for Linux gaming with new developments.

Exciting times, at least for now.

● Stillness

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 18:57:02 +0800

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

- Blaise Pascal

● Rolling with Tumbleweed

Sat, 10 Jul 2021 00:30:52 +0800

It started when this random video appeared in my feed. I am aware of openSUSE before but this SUSE parody video made me hop into this distro immediately. I am not aware that it offers both static (Leap) and rolling release (Tumbleweed) model. Not being in a rolling release for awhile now, I decided to roll down this path. The offline installer surprised me with a 4.6 GB ISO, which is quite big than typical size.

The reason for that big ISO file is the install process. It will let you customize your installation by selecting the packages that you want or remove. It is the most powerful installer so far which let you tweak a lot of things. In the disk partition section, the default filesystem is btrfs. Prior to installation, I have no idea about this filesystem. It is apparently the default for openSUSE for quite awhile and first to adopt it. This new information made me more excited since I have a new thing to delve into. More about btrfs here.

I tried KDE Plasma this time. I already used other major desktop environments but for some reason, I always overlooked Plasma. After some learning more about it, reading the documentation, checking the source, engaging with the community, the innovation, etc., I can say that I will stick with it for a long time, I like everything about it. The same can be said about openSUSE. It’s the current perfect match for me.

Two months in, I can say that I found that distro. Everything from the logo, wiki, forums, community, and the different ways of how it handles things is in my alley. Using Linux has been fun again for me after dabbling most of my time in Debian, Ubuntu and Arch based distros. I’m also using it with Wayland and PipeWire which seems to work fine with my current use.

It’s crazy how this journey started with a parody video. I know openSUSE don’t make a lot of noise in the Linux community, hence the small userbase but in some sense, I quite like it that way. I haven’t gone into detail about the features of openSUSE, I’ll let you have fun discovering about it.

“Don’t reboot it, just patch!”

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 12:40:09 +0800

Good anime comes with good OP and ED songs. Here are my picks for Winter 2021 season:

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 22:01:34 +0800

Beastars Season 2 hits different.

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 15:01:15 +0800

Happy $\pi$ day.

Some videos to watch, Pi is Beautiful by Numberphile and Why pi playlist from 3Blue1Brown. Follow International Day of Mathematics (IDM) events here.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:11:12 +0800

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.

I am haunted by waters.

― Norman Maclean

● CalyxOS review

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:33:00 +0800

After being on a specific custom Android ROM (aftermarket firmware) for a year, I changed to a ROM to fully use Google services for a game that needed it to run. I’ve been using microG which is an open-source implementation of Google services but has limited features and I can’t use it to sign in to the game. Three months in, the game has been updated and I can log in to that game without the need of Google services so here I go again wiping my device storage and installing another custom ROM but this time I discovered a custom ROM that’s been also utilizing microG built-in and has security and privacy features.

Enter CalyxOS. What separates this to other custom ROMs is that this has verified boot and cab relock the bootloader. This is a huge deal in terms of security as this prevents others accessing your information through fastboot. Most custom ROMs out there need to have an unlocked bootloader to function. This method is also being utilized by GrapheneOS, but in this ROM, you can’t use microG and most apps that require it will not function properly. CalyxOS circumvent this by implementing microG to make the device functional in most cases.

From their website, they describe the features as:

you are empowered by the combined expertise of the Internet privacy community
‘de-googled’ Android - does not put your data in google’s cloud or constantly report your location to google
you can make encrypted phone calls directly, using the built-in integration for Signal and WhatsApp calls
you are warned when you make or receive an unencrypted phone call
text messages are encrypted and a timer can be set so they disappear
advertising and trackers blocked via DuckDuckGo Browser and DuckDuckGo as default search provider
web browsing is anonymized via Tor Browser
built-in free “Virtual Private Network” services from trusted organizations protect you from being spied on
your phone is receiving regular, timely, automatic security updates
your data is backed up with strong encryption to your personal cloud server or to USB storage

At first, you can see that this is just another custom ROM with a bunch of privacy features as described above. The security feature of relocking the bootloader is really a big difference of it from other custom ROMs.

Almost a month of using it, I can say that it is very comparable to using LineageOS with microG. Very minimal features has been added from AOSP. This is also my first time using a device with relockable bootloader. There are some minor bugs that I’ve encounter but most of it has been recognized by the developers and their GitLab page is active.

As for the usability, since I’ve been using microG before, nothing has changed in this case. I still get most of my apps from F-Droid which like Google Playstore, but it is a repository of free and open source software for Android. My most used applications are:

AntennaPod: Easy-to-use, flexible and open-source podcast manager and player
Aurora Store: A Google Playstore Client
Bromite: Chromium fork with ad blocking and enhanced privacy; need to add their own repository
Element: Secure decentralised chat & VoIP
mpv: Small and light-weight video player; need to add other repository
Slide: Companion app for reddit
Telegram-FOSS: Messaging app

Overall, I am having fun using it. I might continue using it until my device has stopped receiving security updates. I’ve been waiting for the first update of CalyxOS for my device to see if I will encounter problems.

Sun, 28 Feb 2021 15:26:42 +0800

Oregairu really did had an impact on me.

Taylor series

Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:22:26 +0800

This is very entertaining. I’m still amazed on how this series works.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:20:00 +0800

My only song pick for Fall 2020 season:

“Tsuki to Hoshizora” by KanoeRana

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:00:00 +0800

최유리 - 모닥불

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

Fri, 09 Oct 2020 09:33:26 +0800

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”, the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.” ¹

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. Fri. 9 Oct 2020. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/summary/ ↩︎

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:53:48 +0800

Summer 2020 anime season is ending. Here’s my OP and ED picks:

Sun, 20 Sep 2020 19:34:38 +0800

It’s been fun reading these comics from dnsimple.

How HTTPS works

How DNS works

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 13:48:07 +0800

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

- AE

Sun, 12 Jul 2020 02:11:52 +0800

Understanding

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 04:22:05 +0800

hiime hime!! hime!
suki suki daisuki
hime!! hime!!
kira kira rin ☆
kimi to minna ireba watashi tte zettai muteki
hiime hime!! hime!!
suki suki daisuki
hime!! hime!!
kira kira rin ☆
ookiku naare mahou kakete mo
hime wa hime na no hime na no da
hime!! RABU★hime FAITO ♪

Tue, 30 Jun 2020 01:36:35 +0800

As the season ends, these two songs stood out for me.

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 20:19:15 +0800

I’ve been dealing with empirical equations a lot than I’d imagine. We really don’t understand turbulence right now.

● Thoughts on Pop!_OS

Sun, 24 May 2020 21:53:29 +0800

After using an Ubuntu-based distro¹ for about a year, I decided to distro-hopped again in the past two months. The machine that I’ve been doing this is quite old and showing signs of failing drive and other internal components. Sadly, the Wi-Fi and bluetooth card died and accessing the internet from my phone using USB tethering is quite a hassle too.

Due to a now faulty machine, I decided to get a replacement. Of course it came with Windows as it’s operating system. I installed all the necessary updates on it and after setting it up, Windows is taking 2 GB of RAM at idle. Nice.

So after giving Windows a fair use (1 hour), I immediately replaced it with Debian. I used Openbox as my window manager and the experience is a breeze. The RAM usage as expected is pretty low at around 250 to 290MB. After 3 days of playing around with this new acquired machine and Debian, I read about the new release of Pop!_OS. I’ve heard about this project before but I really haven’t taken a deep look at it since I assumed it is just another Ubuntu-based distro. What caught my attention is their Pop Shell implementation. It is basically a GNOME extension which adds a tiling-window functionality on top of GNOME. Also, the project supports a wide range of hardware out of the box, and the easy setup of having graphics card drivers. These made my try out the iso and will force me to use GNOME for the first time again in 4 years. In the end, I replaced Debian with Pop.

I’ve been using it for about a week now and so far, I’m impressed. GNOME seems to be faster now, and I’m looking to use it for a quite a while. All hardware works out of the box, and what surprised me is that my machine runs cooler now compared to my setup in Debian. The Pop shell is good, although I prefer floating windows for now on this desktop environment. I’m monitoring the progress though on their GitHub page. I’m having fun now using this distro.

So far, my distro hopping came to a temporary end for this past week. I now have time for other things.

Short for Linux-based distribution ↩︎

Spike waves, rogue waves and Hokusai's great wave off Kanagawa

Fri, 15 May 2020 11:54:20 +0000

Tom Crawford, Cambridge Core Blog:

Rogue Waves occur when a larger wave appears in a group of smaller waves. In some circumstances these can lead to an exaggerated ‘Spike Wave’, or a crashing wave resembling the Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai.

This is cool. Here’s a video from PBS on explaining the history of the Hokusai’s Great Wave.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:31:56 +0800

Linux Mint > Solus Budgie/Mate > Archlabs > Manjaro i3/Openbox > Regolith Linux > Bunsenlabs

Distro hopping history for the past month, I need to settle down.

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:20:52 +0800

Scenario 4

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:38:41 +0800

It took me a little over a year finishing the fourth season of Gintama. I can see the trend here. It’s been 5 years since I started watching the beginning of this series. In all cases, I always fall back watching a little bit of Gintama for the past years to have some fun time. I don’t think I might change my method of watching it. On to the next season.

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:46:53 +0800

I decided to share some links which caught my attention today. I miss doing this.

Mind the Gap Between Science and Religion, an article about separating ideas on what the boundaries between the two.
Coronavirus Research, the xkcd approach
Self-isolate
What we get wrong about time
Apple Responds to Android Running on iPhone, have fun

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:19:04 +0800

I’ll take it easy from now on.

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:40:41 +0800

Mathematicians prove universal law of turbulence, great read for additional fluid dynamics knowledge. “I think randomness is one of the few ways of making a model of turbulence that mathematically we can understand.”, Jean-Luc Thiffeault.

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 09:06:57 +0800

404 Page Not Found, where Kate Wagner discusses how the web look before, it’s transition to today’s social media prison, which opposes that the web is open to everyone.

Save .org

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:10:28 +0800

From EFF:

This month it was suddenly announced that the nonprofit that owns the .ORG domain registry was planning to sell it to a private equity firm, Ethos Capital. This could impact the millions of individuals and organizations that have a .ORG website, subjecting them to potential censorship and leaving the door open for price increases on domain registration and renewals.

Sign the petition.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

● Reflection

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:13:55 +0800

Looking out for new ways of improving how you spend your time, good decisions, and thinking scientifically may be a good start for a new year. But why we set our goals only when a new year is approaching? That’s not a good way of approach, I think. Let’s live everyday with a clear mindset and move on.

Let’s be happy.

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 08:52:43 +0800

How the first exoplanets were discovered, John Wenz elaborate on the history of detecting exoplanets. This relates to this year’s Nobel prize.

● Missed xkcd comics 2

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 09:22:19 +0800

I admittedly haven’t visited xkcd for about 8 months. What am I doing.

Group Chat Rules
Aurora Meaning: A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered
Machine learning CAPTCHA
Recombination and Reionization: Reionization plays a lot of Selena Gomez
Terminator: Dark Fate
Earthquake early warnings: earthquake spoilers
Chemistry Nobel
College athletes: Stephs Curry
Drone fishing
Math work

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 09:03:04 +0800

The Magical Science of Wi-Fi on Airplanes, Sarvesh Mathi explains how Wi-Fi works on airplanes in two systems, Air to ground (ATG) system, and Satellite system.

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 08:31:45 +0800

Floating point math - very useful information.

Sun, 24 Nov 2019 11:14:18 +0800

Jumped, danced, sang loudly yesterday. I had a great time.

So free hage naeireun geokjeong malgo

amu singyeong sseuji malgo

So free hage urideulppunirago saenggakhaebwa

Now now everybody dance

Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:03:41 +0800

Back to Android without gapps (Google Apps and Framework). Can’t help it since microg is not that functional yet for Android 10. I’m quite amused that some playstore apps has push notifications working even without Google Cloud Messaging.

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:52:05 +0800

4% market share is really sad. Firefox has been doing great things especially for privacy.

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 09:16:19 +0800

BBC News launches ‘dark web’ Tor mirror

Nobel Prize in Physics 2019

Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:51:45 +0800

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded “for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos” with one half to James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology”, the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.” ¹

Must read: Scientific Background on the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. Wed. 9 Oct 2019. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/summary/ ↩︎

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Tue, 08 Oct 2019 09:06:47 +0800

MyAnimeList API goes open beta. Excited for future developments coming.

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 09:04:51 +0800

Truth..

Fri, 04 Oct 2019 09:49:13 +0800

I play potato.

Letter to my website

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 09:01:50 +0800

Tobias at DESK:

…our website was our home. An extension of ourselves. Every day we visited our page, tweaked it a bit here, adjusted something there, stood back and admired it. Our site was a little corner of the internet we could own.

Fast forward to now and a website almost feels old fashioned. Our social profiles are all-consuming. Curating our Instagram page is our second job. We almost feel an obligation to share our work there, in addition to our personal lives. Our little corner of the internet? It now collects cobwebs.

We control the layout of our website. We can create a page that reflects our taste, our personality, our style.

We control the narrative, too. It’s here we can finally show our work the way it’s intended to be shown. We get to tell the story exactly as we wrote it, with context the audience or user doesn’t typically have. It’s our chance to own our work and put it in its best light.

…When we create a personal website, we own it – at least to the extent that the internet, beautiful in its amorphous existence, can be owned.

A lengthy quotation from the source. I just want to put these words in my website.

Creating a website started just a hobby for me, curious about how I can make something in the internet with these lines of code. I tried different platforms over time, making many changes, adding different functions to make it look more modern. These processes had me hooked in designing and what to put for my website. Years passed and I finally had the chance of buying a domain which I can keep forever and started to build again a website from scratch. This time, I decided to go old-fashioned by only using a static html website. Today, I’m very proud on what I created.

Having this little space in the internet is what matters for myself. It reflects what my tastes, my hobbies, and my interests are. There’s no rules on what I can do, I am free. This is I think what those social media platforms taken away from people today, the freedom in the internet.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Wed, 25 Sep 2019 19:06:33 +0800

“We’re living in a crowded society and we always encounter crowding phenomena in parking lots, traffic patterns, you name it,”

“If you can look at it with the right eyes, you can account for something.”

Where to park your car, according to math

Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:47:38 +0800

Typical Snorlax

Mon, 02 Sep 2019 08:40:18 +0800

Facebook scans system libraries from their Android app user’s phone in the background and uploads them to their server — @wongmjane

Nokia in on top in having the latest software and security updates

Mon, 02 Sep 2019 08:30:24 +0800

This really shows how Nokia is doing great things in their software department. This is mainly because their android phones now is registered in the Android One program.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Fri, 23 Aug 2019 21:40:12 +0800

Weathering With You is a solid film. Attending the pre-screening was worth it.

Thu, 22 Aug 2019 11:27:00 +0800

QualPwn Overview: New vulnerability may affect more than the Snapdragon 835 and 845

Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:21:11 +0800

Anime4K is a state-of-the-art open-source high-quality real-time anime upscaling algorithm that can be implemented in any programming language, anywhere.

Thu, 08 Aug 2019 09:00:07 +0800

Q is coming.

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:50:12 +0800

「ORDINARY LOVE」by Rikako Aida

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 08:46:31 +0800

Dongle is still an option and getting used to it is okay, but using the jack for so long really left a significant mark. We’re really going wireless now, technology advances.

To everyone in the world — Kyoto Animation

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 08:52:48 +0800

Hideaki Hatta, KyoAni CEO:

Please give us some time. We promise that Kyoto Animation will continue to create animation that help people have dreams, hope and impress them. Kyoto animation will continue to make its employees and staff lead happy lives, and contribute to society and local community. I assure you that Kyoto Animation will not give up, we will not go quietly into the night…we will not vanish without a fight!

Take your time KyoAni.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

CERN is going open-source

Sat, 27 Jul 2019 23:03:36 +0800

CERN is really amazing.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 10:23:10 +0800

Served

Sat, 13 Jul 2019 15:13:18 +0800

I’ve missed a lot of anime episodes last season due to some activities that I’ve really enjoyed. A marathon is coming indeed. I must finish it already to watch these new summer anime.

Mon, 08 Jul 2019 10:11:32 +0800

the flew

Mon, 08 Jul 2019 10:00:53 +0800

Seven Ate Nine

The perils of being Paul Ehrenfest, a forgotten physicist and peerless mentor

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 10:53:46 +0800

Eric Johnson, MIT Press Reader:

Largely a forgotten figure, Ehrenfest was beloved by the brightest students — and foremost scientists — of the 20th century.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Sat, 29 Jun 2019 21:43:48 +0800

wow

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:46:54 +0800

I somehow got one, wow.

Mon, 10 Jun 2019 08:15:46 +0800

lazy

Mon, 03 Jun 2019 08:19:19 +0800

Wed, 29 May 2019 08:08:04 +0800

Ooh.

Mon, 27 May 2019 12:58:58 +0800

After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed

Thu, 23 May 2019 13:04:02 +0800

Still my favorite Archlinux based distro, bye Antergos.

CO2 reaches 415ppm in the atmosphere

Tue, 14 May 2019 08:39:25 +0800

Jonathan Shieber, TechCrunch:

For the first time in human history — not recorded history, but since humans have existed on Earth — carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has topped 415 parts per million, reaching 415.26 parts per million, according to sensors at the Mauna Loa Observatory, a research outpost of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Mon, 13 May 2019 18:07:04 +0800

It’s a me.

Sat, 04 May 2019 21:44:15 +0800

Got out of Android One after almost 2 weeks of using it. AB partition, several bootloops and different problems encountered when unlocking bootloader and flashing custom ROM took me 10 hours of figuring it out. New phones are getting more complicated to setup for tinkering.

Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:17:54 +0800

Privacy browser 3.0 has been released with the awaited tab support. I might use it regularly.

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 23:13:44 +0800

interesting

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 20:43:12 +0800

Man, suddenly I’m using jasmine now. It’s sure an upgrade but santoni will always be missed.

Sat, 13 Apr 2019 08:30:18 +0800

A special day needs to be celebrated successfully. Let’s do it!

Black hole image has been captured

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:49:44 +0800

Credits: Event Horizon Telescope collaboration et al.

From NASA:

Using the Event Horizon Telescope, scientists obtained an image of the black hole at the center of galaxy M87, outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon.

What a view. Wow.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:38:57 +0800

Finally decided to change my Linux distro to Linux Mint and it’s my first time trying it. It has been a while since I’ve used a Debian-based one. I’m liking it so far.

Why AMP for email is bad

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 11:15:51 +0800

Tutanota Blog:

Google is bringing AMP to Gmail not for your convenience or to increase speed, but to change your mailbox into a platform for marketers so that the ads jump into your face.

Tutanota explains very well how this AMP implementation will affect users privacy.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:03:56 +0800

The recent anime season (Winter 2019) was a blast. One of the interesting seasons for a while.

How Proton helped improve Wine 4.2

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:48:53 +0800

Andrew Eikum, CodeWeavers:

On Tuesday (March 26, 2019), Valve released Proton 4.2, a new update to their Steam Play compatibility layer based on Wine 4.2.

As with CodeWeavers’s own projects, the strong preference for work going into Proton is to also get the changes into upstream Wine. There are many benefits to this. First, all Wine users will benefit from these fixes, whether they are end users of Wine itself, CrossOver users, or users of any other Wine fork. There are also benefits for the maintainers of Proton. For example, upstreaming patches helps prevent regressions, thanks to Wine’s extensive test suite; it lowers the maintenance burden, as there are fewer changes to move between Wine versions; it ensures code quality, since patches to Wine are reviewed by the Wine community; and it widens the pool of users to test, since Wine is used in many, many places other than Proton.

Linux gaming is greatly improving with this project.

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Wed, 27 Mar 2019 08:29:10 +0800

Best ED by far this season for me,

「Your Name , Kimi no Namae」by Chiai Fujikawa

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 11:14:27 +0800

The adult brain does grow new neurons after all, study says

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 07:42:10 +0800

Light is a…

Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:05:44 +0800

Their comeback is really good .ヽ(o＾▽＾o)ノ

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:40:33 +0800

Today’s Firefox Aims to Reduce Your Online Annoyances

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:29:40 +0800

…to define the mass of a single object is impossible, because there are not any single, left-alone objects in the world—every object is a mixture of a lot of things, so we can deal with it only as a series or approximations and idealizations.

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 08:16:03 +0800

The wait is over. Solus 4 released.

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:58:44 +0800

Happy $\pi$-day! It’s also Einstein’s birthday and death anniversary of Hawking. However, that comeback teaser image is really something, making this day more interesting.

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 09:46:26 +0800

Most things are pointless to stress over. I just want to live my life quietly and not make waves unnecessarily. But sometimes people you can’t control will attack you without warning.

I make it a point to avoid anything I can’t control. I don’t deal well when people do things i didn’t expect. But it’s after those unexpected things happen that you find little discoveries and new encounters. So every once in a while…just every once in a great while…I guess it might not be so bad.

— Subaru Mikazuki, Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue.

Mozilla introduces Firefox Send

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 09:00:46 +0800

Nick Nguyen, The Mozilla Blog:

Send is a free encrypted file transfer service that allows users to safely and simply share files from any browser.

Now a privacy-focused file sharing service from Mozilla. Non-registered users can upload up to 1GB. I’ll quickly switch to this.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:46:07 +0800

This might be the content that will make me start watching Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica.

Sun, 10 Mar 2019 11:42:00 +0800

Boston University mechanical engineers have created synthetic, sound-silencing structures—acoustic metamaterials—that can block 94% of sounds.

● Missed xkcd comics #1

Wed, 06 Mar 2019 20:16:28 +0800

Some notable (for me) xkcd comics that I’ve missed for the past few weeks (latest comics included).

Video Orientation: The diagonal orientation is clever, no cons.
Diffentation and Integration: Integration always seems to have a lot of work needed but that’s fun part about it.
Plutonium
Night Shift
Opportunity Rover: Thank you Opportunity.
Launch Risk
Biff Tannen: Another classic Back to the Future discussion, great!
Internet Archive
Schwarzschild’s Cat
Laptop Issues

I really did missed a lot.

Mon, 04 Mar 2019 08:50:00 +0800

First time attending to a different convention, confused at first but eventually enjoyed the rest of the event. （*´▽｀*）

Sat, 02 Mar 2019 18:32:27 +0800

Happy slug

Sat, 02 Mar 2019 18:31:10 +0800

The much awaited YouTube comments has been added to Newpipe. Keep the new features coming.

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 07:43:06 +0800

This domain existed for 365 days today. I really am maintaining the site. I should get back to coding.

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:41:01 +0800

Are you a gas? Cause I assume you’re ideal. XD

Sat, 23 Feb 2019 14:49:50 +0800

That episode 7 of Mob Pyscho 100 II, it is good.

Farewell Opportunity

Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:37:15 +0800

Kenneth Chang, NYT:

Opportunity, the longest-lived robot ever sent from Earth to the surface of another planet, roamed the red plains of Mars for more than 14 years, snapping photos and revealing astonishing glimpses into the planet’s distant past. But on Wednesday, NASA announced that the rover is dead.

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“It is therefore that I am standing here with a sense of deep appreciation and gratitude that I declare the Opportunity mission as complete,” Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science, said at a news conference.

What a bot. Curiosity will be joined by a new rover in 2020.

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Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:47:18 +0800

Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 css classes to every single post in the timeline

Fri, 08 Feb 2019 07:46:01 +0800

Good joke.

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 07:36:34 +0800

Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:32:02 +0800

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:24:34 +0800

Digitized minutes of Royal Society meetings taken between 1686 and 1711

Sat, 26 Jan 2019 12:32:19 +0800

That experience was great. It’s really fun. I’m going to do that again in the future.

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 11:42:39 +0800

AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 20:06:29 +0800

Gary explains how Android memory management works. He always kills it.

Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:06:29 +0800

A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday’s total lunar eclipse.

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 08:22:27 +0800

This comics are wholesome, they’re worth checking out.

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 19:38:29 +0800

Another year ends, one orbit. Let’s look forward to a new exciting year. Cheers!

A quest for beauty and clear thinking

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 15:41:39 +0800

Maria Mannone interviewed John Baez for her blog, Math is in the air. His words will really inspire a lot of students.

John Baez:

It seems only certain people are drawn to mathematics, and that’s fine: there are many wonderful things in life and there’s no need for everyone explore all of them. Mathematics seems to attract people who enjoy patterns, who enjoy precision, and who don’t want to remember lists of arbitrary facts, like the names of all 206 bones in the human body. In math everything has a reason and you can understand it, so you don’t really need to remember much. At first it may seem like there’s a lot to remember - for examples, lists of trig identities. But as you go deeper into math, and understand more, everything becomes simpler. These days I don’t bother to remember more than a couple of trigonometric identities; if I ever need them I can figure them out.

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But the really surprising thing is that as you go deeper and deeper into mathematics, it keeps revealing more beauty, and more mysteries. You enter new worlds full of profound questions that are quite hard to explain to nonmathematicians. As the Fields medalist Maryam Mirzakhani said, “The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.”

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Tue, 25 Dec 2018 16:10:27 +0800

On December 25th, let us celebrate the forgotten birthday of an individual, whose entire purpose in life was solely devoted towards the pursuit of truth. An individual who would not stop wherever that pursuit led him to, be it lores of alchemical treatises or complex mathematical works.

Merry Newtonmas!

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 10:18:42 +0800

Knowing the difference of knowing the name of something and knowing something, makes you more interested on what that something really is. Keeping this mindset, I think, will make people inclined to thinking critically.

Tue, 18 Dec 2018 08:56:33 +0800

Laptop issues

Fri, 07 Dec 2018 13:56:58 +0800

Goodbye, EdgeHTML

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 08:29:35 +0800

NVIDIA extends PhysX for high-fidelity simulations, goes open source

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:25:04 +0800

How to convert climate-changing carbon dioxide into plastics and other products — Rutgers scientists develop green chemistry based on a natural process.

Sun, 18 Nov 2018 16:09:31 +0800

Cold brew

International System of Units overhauled in historic vote

Sun, 18 Nov 2018 15:54:38 +0800

From NPL’s website:

The decision, made at the General Conference on Weights and Measures in Versailles, France, which is organised by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), means that all SI units will now be defined in terms of constants that describe the natural world. This will assure the future stability of the SI and open the opportunity for the use of new technologies, including quantum technologies, to implement the definitions.

The changes, which will come into force on 20 May 2019, will bring an end to the use of physical objects to define measurement units.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 11:04:11 +0800

sr.ht, the hacker’s forge, now open for public alpha — This is good.

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 13:21:26 +0800

An infinite, procedurally generated city, assembled out of blocks using the Wave Function Collapse algorithm with backtracking.

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:03:44 +0800

Cloudflare Brings its 1.1.1.1 DNS Service to Android & iOS Mobile Devices

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 11:19:13 +0800

Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing

Warcraft 3: Reforged announced at Blizzcon 2018

Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:33:02 +0800

Allegra Frank, Polygon:

Blizzard is releasing a remaster of Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, the company announced during the opening ceremony for this year’s BlizzCon. The game is called Warcraft 3: Reforged, as revealed with both cinematic and gameplay trailers shown during the event.

The rumored remaster of Warcarft 3 last year was true. I’m excited!

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:31:53 +0800

Blizzard responds to Diablo: Immortal backlash

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 15:23:16 +0800

Private messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for sale.

New antimatter gravity experiments begin at CERN

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 12:39:05 +0800

Ana Lopes, CERN website:

What we haven’t learned, because it hasn’t been directly measured in experiments, is whether antimatter falls down at the same rate as ordinary matter or if it might behave differently. Two new experiments at CERN, ALPHA-g and GBAR, have now started their journey towards answering this question

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:51:21 +0800

Dark Matter Day 2018

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 08:11:36 +0800

Old school Runescape mobile launched!

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 07:53:12 +0800

5000 anime episodes watched!

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:40:14 +0800

Intuitive understanding of Euler’s formula

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 08:35:55 +0800

IBM acquires Red Hat. Bad news for open source?

Hubble is back

Sun, 28 Oct 2018 10:29:04 +0800

From NASA website:

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope returned to normal operations late Friday, Oct. 26, and completed its first science observations on Saturday, Oct. 27 at 2:10 AM EDT. … Originally required to last 15 years, Hubble has now been at the forefront of scientific discovery for more than 28 years.

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Sat, 27 Oct 2018 22:58:07 +0800

Talking Hawking – his new book and ‘last’ scientific paper

Sat, 27 Oct 2018 20:06:14 +0800

The hardest part of being an artist - Light Roast Comics

Numbers at the edge of reality

Sat, 27 Oct 2018 00:03:18 +0800

Patrick Honner on imaginary and complex numbers, Quanta Magazine:

… And they are the first step into a world of strange number systems, some of which are being proposed as models of the mysterious relationships underlying our physical world.

Good read.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 08:34:30 +0800

Facebook, Google hit with lawsuits for ‘secret’ location tracking

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:28:21 +0800

I’ve been using Android Pie for the last two days and quite impressed. Using it without google apps seems like missing those AI functionalities. I’m looking forward how custom ROMs will handle that.

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:00:35 +0800

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one’s equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

– P.A.M. Dirac

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 22:02:42 +0800

Site CMS is configured!

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:18:00 +0800

Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:01:51 +0800

career goal

Nobel Prize in Physics 2018

Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:07:37 +0800

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”, the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses” ." ¹

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. Tue. 2 Oct 2018. ↩︎

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Sun, 23 Sep 2018 19:08:11 +0800

Best at being me

Sat, 22 Sep 2018 19:17:07 +0800

#dearMoon

Computational fluid dynamics on a lunar lander-type game

Sun, 16 Sep 2018 13:37:10 +0800

Interplanetary Postal Service is an open-source game that lets you control a lunar lander module. The challenge is to land the module safely against gravity and winds. I had some fun time with it, and seeing how the physics of CFD was implemented is always great!

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:50:09 +0800

/e/ is a custom ROM for smartphones based on LineageOS 14.1 which aims for a privacy-focused user experience. It’s Android with no Google. The first beta is out!

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:45:52 +0800

China is rising globally in scientific achievement. China researchers are doing great!

Sun, 09 Sep 2018 19:43:42 +0800

A Japanese team of researchers from Shizuoka University will conduct the first run of their space elevator prototype this month.

Mon, 03 Sep 2018 18:49:08 +0800

Tell me about your world.

Decay of Higgs boson observed

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:28:04 +0800

From CERN Media and Press Relations website:

Six years after its discovery, the Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks. The finding, presented today at CERN by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is consistent with the hypothesis that the all-pervading quantum field behind the Higgs boson also gives mass to the bottom quark.

The Standard Model of particle physics predicts that about 60% of the time a Higgs boson will decay to a pair of bottom quarks, the second-heaviest of the six flavours of quarks. Testing this prediction is crucial because the result would either lend support to the Standard Model – which is built upon the idea that the Higgs field endows quarks and other fundamental particles with mass – or rock its foundations and point to new physics.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Fri, 24 Aug 2018 07:18:13 +0800

This is just exciting news for the Linux community. From Valve: “Windows games with no Linux version currently available can now be installed and run directly from the Linux Steam client, complete with native Steamworks and OpenVR support.”

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:30:01 +0800

A look at Vim, a text editor for the ages

Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:57:34 +0800

PBS Space Time discussing the best evidence we have that the theories of quantum physics truly represent the underlying workings of reality.

Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:30:55 +0800

Parker solar probe has been launched! Excited to see its future observations.

● Few energy transfer mechanisms

Sat, 11 Aug 2018 18:53:02 +0800

Here are some ways to transfer energy out of a system.

Work

This method¹ is by applying a force to the system and this results to a change in displacement in the point of application of the force. This is expressed by this simple equation:

$W = F \Delta x$

Heat

Heat² is the mechanism of energy transfer that is based on temperature difference of a system compared to its environment.

Mechanical waves

This method is described by traveling of a disturbance through a medium. For example is when the energy leaves from a speaker and the energy propagates through the air and this vibrations were detected by your ears which you perceive as sound.

Electrical transmission

This method which is very familiar in this century is when energy leaves the system in the form of electric currents.

Electromagnetic radiation

Electromagnetic waves such as light, x-rays, microwaves is transferring energy. A good example is the energy from the sun traveling to earth as light.

Remember that energy is always _conserved_.

Work is a scalar quantity. ↩︎
The word heat is misused in the society with respect to its physics definition. Heat is not a form of energy, it is a method of transferring energy. ↩︎

Sat, 11 Aug 2018 14:16:22 +0800

CMP

Tue, 07 Aug 2018 22:48:55 +0800

Trajectories of the Earth system in the anthropocene

Sun, 05 Aug 2018 18:51:24 +0800

Dream on

Sun, 05 Aug 2018 18:39:25 +0800

Some of the young experimentalists today are a bit too conservative. In other words, they are afraid to do something that is not in the mainstream. They fear doing something risky and not getting a result. I don’t blame them. It’s the way the culture is. My advice to them is to figure out what the most important experiments are and then be persistent. Good experiments always take time.[…]

Young students don’t always have the freedom to be very innovative, unless they can do it in a very short amount of time and be successful. They don’t always get to be patient and just explore. They need to be recognized by their collaborators. They need people to write them letters of recommendation.[…]

Communicate. Don’t close yourselves off. Try to come up with good ideas on your own but also in groups. Try to innovate. Nothing will be easy. But it is all worth it to discover something new.

—Sau Lan Wu

First successful test of Einstein’s general relativity near supermassive black hole

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 21:21:18 +0800

From the European Southern Observatory,

Observations made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time revealed the effects predicted by Einstein’s general relativity on the motion of a star passing through the extreme gravitational field near the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way. This long-sought result represents the climax of a 26-year-long observation campaign using ESO’s telescopes in Chile.

Obscured by thick clouds of absorbing dust, the closest supermassive black hole to the Earth lies 26 000 light-years away at the centre of the Milky Way. This gravitational monster, which has a mass four million times that of the Sun, is surrounded by a small group of stars orbiting around it at high speed. This extreme environment — the strongest gravitational field in our galaxy — makes it the perfect place to explore gravitational physics, and particularly to test Einstein’s general theory of relativity. […]

The new measurements clearly reveal an effect called gravitational redshift. Light from the star is stretched to longer wavelengths by the very strong gravitational field of the black hole. And the change in the wavelength of light from S2 agrees precisely with that predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity. This is the first time that this deviation from the predictions of the simpler Newtonian theory of gravity has been observed in the motion of a star around a supermassive black hole.

More than one hundred years after he published his paper setting out the equations of general relativity, Einstein has been proved right once more — in a much more extreme laboratory than he could have possibly imagined!

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 22:42:20 +0800

Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 22:40:00 +0800

Electron images achieve record-breaking resolution

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 21:37:13 +0800

7 is the only prime followed by a cube

Spiders can fly thousands of miles with electric power

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:58:46 +0800

Becky Ferreira, Motherboard:

On Halloween in 1832, the naturalist Charles Darwin was onboard the HMS Beagle. He marveled at spiders that had landed on the ship after floating across huge ocean distances. “I caught some of the Aeronaut spiders which must have come at least 60 miles,” he noted in his diary. “How inexplicable is the cause which induces these small insects, as it now appears in both hemispheres, to undertake their aerial excursions.”

Small spiders achieve flight by aiming their butts at the sky and releasing tendrils of silk to generate lift. Darwin thought that electricity might be involved when he noticed that spider silk stands seemed to repel each other with electrostatic force, but many scientists assumed that the arachnids, known as “ballooning” spiders, were simply sailing on the wind like a paraglider. The wind power explanation has thus far been unable to account for observations of spiders rapidly launching into the air, even when winds are low, however.

Now, these aerial excursions have been empirically determined to be largely powered by electricity, according to new research published Thursday in Current Biology. Led by Erica Morley, a sensory biophysicist at the University of Bristol, the study settles a longstanding debate about whether wind energy or electrostatic forces are responsible for spider ballooning locomotion.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 07:44:09 +0800

“What is the single most important thing that you want your readers to learn?”

Thorne: The amazing power of human mind — by fits and starts, blind alleys, and leaps of insight — to unravel the complexities of our Universe, and reveal the ultimate simplicity, the elegance, and the glorious beauty of the fundamental laws that govern it.

From the book, ‘Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy’ by Kip S. Thorne.

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 09:45:00 +0800

Newton’s Trajectories

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:17:02 +0800

5G beam-steering antennas: more accurate, less power hungry

Taking a new approach to phase shifting antennas increases network range, data rate, and capacity

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 08:40:17 +0800

Mathematicians find wrinkle in famed fluid equations

● Hawking radiation temperature equation

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 14:34:59 +0800

$$T=\frac{hc^3}{8\pi, GMk}$$

T=temperature
h=Plank’s constant
c=speed of light
G=Newton’s gravitational constant
M=mass of the black hole
k=Boltzmann’s constant

The equation tells us that as the mass of the black hole gets bigger, its Hawking radiation temperature gets lower.

Sat, 26 May 2018 09:36:29 +0800

If I do close my eyes, what is it that I picture years from now?
Like Leon said, doesn’t one need to understand that, before they’re ready to fight for their existence?
How would my future fairytale unfold?
Will I finally connect with those I deeply care for?
Will I reunite with old friends long gone?
See the ones I love find true happiness?
Maybe this future includes people I’d never dream of getting close to.
Even make amends with those I have unfairly wrong.
A future that’s not so lonely.
A future filled with friends and family.
You’d even be there.
A world I’ve always wanted.
And you know what?
I would like very much to fight for it.

— Elliot

Classical math problem pulled into self-driving cars

Thu, 24 May 2018 18:53:54 +0800

Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine:

As a result of new work by Amir Ali Ahmadi and Anirudha Majumdar of Princeton University, a classical problem from pure mathematics is poised to provide iron-clad proof that drone aircraft and autonomous cars won’t crash into trees or veer into oncoming traffic.

The guarantee comes from an unlikely place — a mathematical problem known as “sum of squares.” The problem was posed in 1900 by the great mathematician David Hilbert. He asked whether certain types of equations could always be expressed as a sum of two separate terms, each raised to the power of 2.

Mathematicians settled Hilbert’s question within a few decades. Then, almost 90 years later, computer scientists and engineers discovered that this mathematical property — whether an equation can be expressed as a sum of squares — helps answer many real-world problems they’d like to solve.

Yet even as researchers realized that sum of squares could help answer many kinds of questions, they faced challenges to implementing the approach. The new work by Ahmadi and Majumdar clears away one of the biggest of those challenges — bringing an old math question squarely to bear on some of the most important technological questions of the day.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Sat, 19 May 2018 14:00:30 +0800

$$ a^n + b^n = c^n $$ $$ n > 2 $$

Fermat’s Last Theorem states that no three integers satisfy the above equation for any integer value greater than 2.

● Feynman 100

Mon, 14 May 2018 15:06:59 +0800

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.

I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature … If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

― Richard Feynman

Sun, 13 May 2018 18:42:07 +0800

Feynman 100: A Celebration of Richard Feynman’s Life and Legacy on the Occasion of his 100th Birthday.

Tue, 08 May 2018 18:20:28 +0800

IMHO

Mon, 07 May 2018 19:17:34 +0800

ArchLabs has all the preferences that I want. I think I will use this for a long amount of time.

Tue, 01 May 2018 14:16:59 +0800

Starting to get used in using Solus.

Einstein’s “spooky action” goes massive!

Fri, 27 Apr 2018 21:18:39 +0800

From ScienceDaily website, source from Aalto University¹:

Perhaps the strangest prediction of quantum theory is entanglement, a phenomenon whereby two distant objects become intertwined in a manner that defies both classical physics and a “common-sense” understanding of reality. In 1935, Albert Einstein expressed his concern over this concept, referring to it as “spooky action at a distance.” […]

In work recently published in Nature, a team led by Prof. Mika Sillanpää at Aalto University in Finland has shown that entanglement of massive objects can be generated and detected.

The researchers managed to bring the motions of two individual vibrating drumheads – fabricated from metallic aluminium on a silicon chip – into an entangled quantum state. The objects in the experiment are truly massive and macroscopic compared to the atomic scale: the circular drumheads have a diametre similar to the width of a thin human hair. […]

‘The vibrating bodies are made to interact via a superconducting microwave circuit. The electromagnetic fields in the circuit are used to absorb all thermal disturbances and to leave behind only the quantum mechanical vibrations,’ says Mika Sillanpää, describing the experimental setup. […]

The results demonstrate that it is now possible to have control over large mechanical objects in which exotic quantum states can be generated and stabilized. Not only does this achievement open doors for new kinds of quantum technologies and sensors, it can also enable studies of fundamental physics in, for example, the poorly understood interplay of gravity and quantum mechanics.

Aalto University. “Einstein’s ‘spooky action’ goes massive: The elusive quantum mechanical phenomenon of entanglement has now been made a reality in objects almost macroscopic in size.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 25 April 2018. ↩︎

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Fri, 27 Apr 2018 21:07:19 +0800

Meteorologist

New ‘green’ concrete using graphene

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:16:43 +0800

University of Exeter:

Experts from the University of Exeter have developed a pioneering new technique that uses nanoengineering technology to incorporate graphene into traditional concrete production.

The new composite material, which is more than twice as strong and four times more water resistant than existing concretes, can be used directly by the construction industry on building sites. All of the concrete samples tested are according to British and European standards for construction.

Crucially, the new graphene-reinforced concentre material also drastically reduced the carbon footprint of conventional concrete production methods, making it more sustainable and environmentally friendly.

The research team insist the new technique could pave the way for other nanomaterials to be incorporated into concrete, and so further modernise the construction industry worldwide.

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Researchers investigate 'why clothes don't fall apart'

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:01:24 +0800

Lisa Zyga, Phys.org:

Cotton thread is made of many tiny fibers, each just 2-3 cm long, yet when spun together the fibers are capable of transmitting tension over indefinitely long distances. From a physics perspective, how threads and yarns transmit tension—making them strong enough to keep clothes from falling apart—is a long-standing puzzle that is not completely understood.

In a new paper published in Physical Review Letters entitled “Why Clothes Don’t Fall Apart: Tension Transmission in Staple Yarns,” physicists Patrick Warren at Unilever R&D Port Sunlight, Robin Ball at the University of Warwick, and Ray Goldstein at the University of Cambridge have investigated yarn tension in the framework of statistical physics. Using techniques from linear programming, they show that the collective friction among fibers creates a locking mechanism, and as long as there is sufficient friction, a random assembly of fibers can in principle transmit an indefinitely large tension.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:54:43 +0800

JavaScript for beginners: Grasshopper can teach coding

Sun, 22 Apr 2018 21:15:35 +0800

Inside the Linux boot process: Take a guided tour from the Master Boot Record to the first user-space application

‘Superblack’ bird of paradise feathers absorb 99.95% of light

Sun, 22 Apr 2018 18:18:08 +0800

Matt Waren, Science Mag:

Scientists have gone to great lengths to make the blackest possible surfaces. But it turns out that nature is pretty good at creating light-absorbing structures, too. WIRED reports that certain male birds of paradise have “superblack” feathers that absorb as much as 99.95% of light. The profoundly black appearance is produced by the microscopic structure of the feathers. Whereas other birds’ feathers have lots of tiny filaments that lie flat and are neatly organized, on the birds of paradise these filaments are tightly packed and bend upward, with deep cavities between them. As light enters the feather, it bounces around these cavities and gradually gets absorbed. Writing in Nature Communications, the scientists speculate that superblack feathers make neighboring, colorful patches on the bird appear even brighter to impress females during courtship.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Sun, 22 Apr 2018 17:32:35 +0800

Purism Librem 13 review

Sat, 21 Apr 2018 13:08:09 +0800

Thinkpad 420, an excellent, inexpensive Linux laptop. The Carbon X1 also piqued my attention. Here’s a good review, ‘Running Linux on the Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 (5th generation)’.

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 22:30:37 +0800

Tess has been launched.

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:56:00 +0800

New GitHub tools for open source maintainers: minimized comments, popular repository namespace retirement, and accidental and “drive-through” pull request prevention.

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:51:00 +0800

Site’s linked post format for micro has been updated, truncated links will be shown after the content.

Wed, 18 Apr 2018 23:18:07 +0800

An engineer has found a way repairing roads using waste plastic as binding agent in asphalt. This replaces the conventional bitumen, hoping for a greener solution.

Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:24:44 +0800

Project Chrono - An Open Source Multi-physics Simulation Engine projectchrono.org

GIMPS project discovers largest known prime number

Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:44:53 +0800

Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) on phys.org:

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has discovered the largest known prime number, 2^77,232,917-1, having 23,249,425 digits.

[…]

The new prime number, also known as M77232917, is calculated by multiplying together 77,232,917 twos, and then subtracting one. It is nearly one million digits larger than the previous record prime number, in a special class of extremely rare prime numbers known as Mersenne primes. It is only the 50th known Mersenne prime ever discovered, each increasingly difficult to find. Mersenne primes were named for the French monk Marin Mersenne, who studied these numbers more than 350 years ago. GIMPS, founded in 1996, has discovered the last 16 Mersenne primes. Volunteers download a free program to search for these primes, with a cash award offered to anyone lucky enough to find a new prime. Prof. Chris Caldwell maintains an authoritative web site on the largest known primes, and has an excellent history of Mersenne primes.

The primality proof took six days of non-stop computing on a PC with an Intel i5-6600 CPU. To prove there were no errors in the prime discovery process, the new prime was independently verified using four different programs on four different hardware configurations.

Aaron Blosser verified it using Prime95 on an Intel Xeon server in 37 hours.

David Stanfill verified it using gpuOwL on an AMD RX Vega 64 GPU in 34 hours.
Andreas Höglund verified the prime using CUDALucas running on NVidia Titan Black GPU in 73 hours.
Ernst Mayer also verified it using his own program Mlucas on 32-core Xeon server in 82 hours. Andreas Höglund also confirmed using Mlucas running on an Amazon AWS instance in 65 hours.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Tue, 17 Apr 2018 13:56:02 +0800

A new algorithm that could add more life to bridges surrey.ac.uk

Sat, 14 Apr 2018 14:28:17 +0800

Two atoms combined in dipolar molecule for the first time, which could lead to more-efficient quantum computing. news.harvard.edu

Sat, 14 Apr 2018 08:21:08 +0800

The thermodynamics of computing ethz.ch

● Opening the Web

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 13:34:44 +0800

Brent Simmons on using Micro.blog:

We could continue to flock to Twitter and Facebook — we could keep paying those who have and will rip off democracy for a stock price — or we could turn our backs and help the open web instead.

We could say goodbye to the creepy targeted ads and the algorithms, to the Nazis and bots and propagandists, to the harassers and the people selling hate. We could stop being spied-on for profit.

This blog entry sums up why we need to make the open web great again. It’s really up to us on how this trend will continue. Let’s make a choice.

Crash! Scientists explain what happens when nanoparticles collide

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 11:34:03 +0800

Charlotte Hsu, University at Buffalo News:

Helmets that do a better job of preventing concussions and other brain injuries. Earphones that protect people from damaging noises. Devices that convert “junk” energy from airport runway vibrations into usable power.

New research on the events that occur when tiny specks of matter called nanoparticles smash into each other could one day inform the development of such technologies.

Surajit Sen, study co-author:

It gives engineers fundamental information about nanoparticles that they didn’t have before. If you’re designing a new type of nanoparticle, you can now think about doing it in a way that takes into account what happens when you have very small nanoparticles interacting with each other.

This will give engineers new type of material to played around with.

Read on dynamicallystatic.org

Sun, 08 Apr 2018 19:36:47 +0800

Faced with global warming, aviation aims to turn green phys.org

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 21:53:38 +0800

Facebook said the personal data of most its 2 billion users has been collected and shared with outsiders on a massive global scale. washingtonpost.com

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 23:03:18 +0800

Finding order in disorder demonstrates a new state of matter. lanl.gov

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 22:09:41 +0800

2001: A Space Odyssey celebrates its 50th anniversary with 70mm re-release. businesswire.com

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 09:58:21 +0800

The first 3D-printed steel bridge looks like it broke off an alien mothership. 3D-printing is undeniably the future for the construction industry. gizmodo.com

Stealing Zuckerberg’s trash

Tue, 03 Apr 2018 19:29:36 +0800

Joe Veix, The Outline:

In 2014, Mark Zuckerberg bought a new home in San Francisco’s Mission District, about a mile from where I lived at the time. Shortly after the purchase, the man who once printed business cards boasting, “I’m CEO, Bitch” began refurbishing the $10 million “fixer upper.”

I immediately biked over to the area to scope the place out. I figured that having the address of one of the richest and most powerful people in the world could be vaguely useful. Maybe if a Class War ever started, I could point an angry mob in his general direction. Or maybe I could steal his valuable trash.

After four years of stalling, I finally decided to go ahead with the latter idea. My quarter-baked plan was this: I’d drive to his Mission District pied-à-terre on trash collection day, snatch a few bags of whatever, and dig through it. I could learn more about Mark Zuckerberg’s habits and interests, creating my own ad profile of him. Then I could sell this information to brands looking to target that coveted “male, 18-34, billionaire” demographic. Think of it as a physical version of Facebook’s business model.

This is very fun to read.

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Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:08:04 +0800

Cloudflare announced 1.1.1.1, a privacy-first consumer DNS service. I’m glad that online privacy is now getting attention because of the recent Facebook breach. blog.cloudflare.com

Sun, 01 Apr 2018 08:47:51 +0800

RSS has always been here. wired.com

Sat, 31 Mar 2018 11:26:03 +0800

Facebook Container Extension for Firefox blog.mozilla.org

Fri, 30 Mar 2018 13:14:04 +0800

Third-world countries with poor ISPs will largely benefit from this. It is exciting to see what’s more to come from SpaceX. cnbc.com

Hubble finds first galaxy in the local universe without dark matter

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 18:02:24 +0800

From spacetelescope.org:

An international team of researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories have, for the first time, uncovered a galaxy in our cosmic neighbourhood that is missing most — if not all — of its dark matter. This discovery of the galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 challenges currently-accepted theories of and galaxy formation and provides new insights into the nature of dark matter. The results are published in Nature.

Dark matter is believed to be the one that holds galaxies together. This discovery requires us new knowledge on how galaxies work. It is exciting to know what’s the explanation behind this.

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Internet to TLS 1.3

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 09:16:40 +0800

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has approved TLS 1.3 as internet standard in making the web more secure.

Catalin Cimpanu:

The protocol has several advantages over its previous version —TLS 1.2. The biggest feature is that TLS 1.3 ditches older encryption and hashing algorithms (such as MD5 and SHA-224) for newer and harder to crack alternatives (such as ChaCha20, Poly1305, Ed25519, x25519, and x448).

[…]

All in all, TLS 1.3 is a serious boost to Internet security, being considered nigh impossible to crack, at least with today’s resources.

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Flexible ultrasound patch could make it easier to inspect damage in odd-shaped structures

Sun, 25 Mar 2018 08:32:03 +0800

Researchers have developed a stretchable, flexible patch that could make it easier to perform ultrasound imaging on odd-shaped structures, such as engine parts, turbines, reactor pipe elbows and railroad tracks—objects that are difficult to examine using conventional ultrasound equipment.

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Curiosity rover on its 2000th sol

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:26:12 +0800

Nasa’s Curiosity rover, also known as the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), is celebrating 2,000 martian days (sols) investigating Gale Crater on the Red Planet. In that time, the robot has made some remarkable observations.

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● Farewell Professor Stephen Hawking

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:52:16 +0800

This is very saddening.

From BBC News:

He died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday, his family said.

Some quotes from Prof. Hawking:

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special.”

“Black holes ain’t as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought. Things can get out of a black hole both on the outside and possibly to another universe. So if you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up — there’s a way out.”

“It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.”

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”

RIP to one of my heroes, Stephen Hawking.

Celebrate Pi Day 2018 with NASA

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:00:31 +0800

On March 14, NASA will join schools, students and science centers across the U.S. as they celebrate one of the most well known and beloved numbers: pi. Used throughout the STEM world – especially for space exploration! – pi is the number that results from dividing the circumference of any circle by its diameter. Pi can be and often is rounded to 3.14 (even though its decimals never end), which is why 3/14 has been designated National Pi Day.

It includes the NASA Pi Day Challenge which has four new problems in topics of exoplanets, helium rain, earthquake on Mars and asteroid ‘Oumuamua. Let’s solve them!

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Sat, 10 Mar 2018 16:06:05 +0800

T-3 days until Pi Day 2018. It’s also the birthdate of Albert Einstein. It’s truly a day for math and science.

Public Invited to Come Aboard NASA’s First Mission to Touch the Sun

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:57:09 +0800

From the NASA website:

NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names online to be placed on a microchip aboard NASA’s historic Parker Solar Probe mission launching in summer 2018. The mission will travel through the Sun’s atmosphere, facing brutal heat and radiation conditions — and your name will go along for the ride.

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Einstein's proof of Pythagorean theorem

Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:04:18 +0800

This simple proof of the Pythagorean theorem reveals how brilliant Einstein’s mind is. This is my first time reading his proof and immediately amazed.

Starting with a right triangle, draw a perpendicular line from the hypotenuse to the right angle. This divides the triangle into two smaller right triangles.

$$smaller~~area + larger~~area = original~area$$

Adding the two triangles equals the original triangle.

Lets say:

$$a = hypotenuseofsmaller~triangle$$

$$b = hypotenuseoflarger~triangle$$

$$c = hypotenuseoforiginal~triangle$$

These triangles are similar in terms of the angles and their sides are in proportion to each other.

Since they’re all similar, each area occupies a fraction, f, of the area of the square of the hypotenuse.

$$smaller~~area = fa^2$$ $$larger~~area = fb^2$$ $$original~area = fc^2$$

Using all the relationships,

$$fa^2 + fb^2 = fc^2$$

Dividing the above equation by f,

$$a^2 + b^2 = c^2$$

And the Pythagorean theorem has been proved.

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FreeTube is an open source YouTube app for privacy

Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:11:52 +0800

How does it work?

FreeTube uses the YouTube API to search for videos. It then uses the HookTube API to grab the raw video files and play them in a basic HTML5 video player, preventing YouTube from tracking that video. Subscriptions, history, and saved videos are stored locally on the user’s computer and is never sent out to Google or anyone else. You own your data.

The app is built using Electron as stated by the developer. I admire that he is being honest about using it.

The app is in beta and available for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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Visualization behind the formula of surface area of sphere

Sun, 04 Mar 2018 23:36:14 +0800

Using calculus.

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findx: opensource and privacy concerned search engine

Sun, 04 Mar 2018 13:01:42 +0800

Another privacy and FOSS search engine to try other than searx.

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Vodafone, Nokia are tech partners for 4G network on the moon

Sat, 03 Mar 2018 18:16:54 +0800

Nokia said a 4G network was “highly energy efficient compared to analogue radio.” Nokia also said its Ultra Compact Network will be the lightest ever developed.

[…]

“Vodafone testing indicates that the base station should be able to broadcast 4G using the 1800 MHz frequency band and send back the first ever live HD video feed of the Moon’s surface.”

Excited to see what 5G has to offer but sticking with 4G for stability is reasonable. Lunar missions are getting active again.

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Sat, 03 Mar 2018 15:38:25 +0800

I’m giving micro.blog a try. More on this later.

● Blogging is about control

Sat, 03 Mar 2018 01:35:05 +0800

Andy Baio:

Here, I control my words. Nobody can shut this site down, run annoying ads on it, or sell it to a phone company. Nobody can tell me what I can or can’t say, and I have complete control over the way it’s displayed. Nobody except me can change the URL structure, breaking 14 years of links to content on the web.

Ben Brooks:

Having my own site gives me complete control to do whatever I want, whenever I want, however I want. I don’t understand why people ever want it any other way.

These are also the reasons I created this site.

Expressing one’s thought is important. Why let anyone control on what you have to say?

String theory explained – what is the true nature of reality?

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 01:05:22 +0800

A user-friendly explanation of string theory.

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Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:36:08 +0800

The site has been rebranded to “Dynamically Static”. This will be the final change in domain name.

Scientists used atomic clock to measure the height of a mountain

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:10:30 +0800

Ultimately, as the accuracy of the portable clock continues to get better, time could be used to resolve height differences of just 1 centimeter, the study authors said.

This is a great start. Looking forward for the applications in navigation and engineering.

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Tue, 27 Feb 2018 22:25:19 +0800

I’ve been fiddling around with Hugo and decided to migrate the site from Jekyll. I also transferred the site to Netlify from GitLab and so far, the experience has been great. I’m still familiarizing with Hugo and making some customizations. This should be fun.

Fresh evidence for new physics in the universe

Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to make the most precise measurements of the expansion rate of the universe since it was first calculated nearly a century ago. Intriguingly, the results are forcing astronomers to consider that they may be seeing evidence of something unexpected at work in the universe.

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Roger Pink: an open letter to an engineering student

Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

“Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.” - Isaac Asimov

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Is ASCII art dead?

Mon, 19 Feb 2018 02:52:17 +0000

ASCII art has been entertaining as always. It will always find it’s way attracting people.

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Scientists link photons, creating new form of light

Sat, 17 Feb 2018 16:11:43 +0000

But how do the photons get together? The physicists’ theoretical model suggests that as a single photon moves through the cloud of rubidium, it hops from one atom to another, “like a bee flitting between flowers,” the press release explains. One photon can briefly bind to an atom, forming a hybrid photon-atom or polariton. If two of these polaritons meet in the cloud, they interact. When they reach the edge of the cloud, the atoms stay behind and the photons sail forward, still bound together. Add more photons and same phenomenon gives rise to triplets.

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Blogging like a hacker

Sat, 17 Feb 2018 00:39:13 +0000

Tom Preston-Werner:

I love writing. I get a kick out of sharing my thoughts with others. The act of transforming ideas into words is an amazingly efficient way to solidify and refine your thoughts about a given topic. But as much as I enjoy blogging, I seem to be stuck in a cycle of quitting and starting over. Before starting the current iteration, I resolved to do some introspection to determine the factors that were leading to this destructive pattern.

I just stumbled from this post from 2008 which sparks the creation of Jekyll. Approching blogging from a software development perspective turned out a very great idea.

The article is a good read.

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GitLab Pages security issue in custom domains

Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:41:13 +0000

When a user adds a custom domain to their Pages site, no validation was being performed to ensure the domain was owned by that user. This issue allows an attacker to discover DNS records already pointing to the GitLab Page IP address which haven’t been claimed and potentially hijack them. This issue impacts all users who have created and then deleted custom domains using GitLab Pages, but still have the DNS records active.

As of now, adding custom domains is disabled. Implementing the validation mechanism for this is really great for security and assures the owner of the domain.

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searx is a privacy-respecting metasearch engine

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This search engine got my attention today. The idea of aggregating the results of other search engines is great and it’s free software too. I also like the minimalist interface.

I’ve been a long time user of DuckDuckGo and I’m giving searx a try this time for a new experience.

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● Newtonmas 2017

Mon, 25 Dec 2017 15:14:00 +0000

It’s that time again to pay tribute to this very great man.

Sheldon Cooper on Newton’s bust:

..wait escuse me, it’s much more christmassy than anything you’ve put on the tree. December 25, 1642, Julian calendar, Sir Isaac Newton is born.

… no, Sir Isaac goes at the top of the tree.

Merry Newtonmas!

● A new start

Wed, 06 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been meaning to build a website for a while now to have my own space in the internet. Almost seven years ago, I had taken an interest in web development by building wapsites¹. Viewing the source code of a site through a browser and taking any information and design ideas was my starting ground. After spending my time in coding, I discovered blogging. I’ve tried different blogging platforms such as Blogspot, Tumblr, and Wordpress. With these platforms at hand, making a blog is very easy because all I need to do is select some templates and I’m ready to post articles. This is not challenging for me.

Recently, I found out about these open-source static site generators such as Jekyll, Hugo, Hexo, and others. Using these brings back the excitement because I am learning again by coding and helps me understand what web development is all about. In addition, I now have more control of all the site’s content.

GitHub Pages, GitLab Pages, Netlify, etc. are the savior in starting this static website. The most important feature of these services is that the hosting is free. I don’t have any knowledge about Git so I decided to put some time into it and I really enjoyed learning basic Git principles.

Jekyll is really simple. It generates HTML files within the ‘_site’ folder which is the one accessible as the website directory. Posts are written in Markdown. YAML front matter and variables were enough for me in adding features for the website.

After all this, the only problem for me is to produce more content. My curiosity is what I think will drive me in learning more about web development and to produce more writings in the future.

Update: As of February 27, 2018, the site has migrated to Hugo.

Wapsite is a website designed for mobiles. ↩︎

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Letter to my website

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To everyone in the world — Kyoto Animation

CERN is going open-source

The perils of being Paul Ehrenfest, a forgotten physicist and peerless mentor

CO2 reaches 415ppm in the atmosphere

Black hole image has been captured

Why AMP for email is bad

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● Missed xkcd comics #1

Farewell Opportunity

A quest for beauty and clear thinking

International System of Units overhauled in historic vote

Warcraft 3: Reforged announced at Blizzcon 2018

New antimatter gravity experiments begin at CERN

Hubble is back

Numbers at the edge of reality

Nobel Prize in Physics 2018

Computational fluid dynamics on a lunar lander-type game

Decay of Higgs boson observed

● Few energy transfer mechanisms

First successful test of Einstein’s general relativity near supermassive black hole

Spiders can fly thousands of miles with electric power

● Hawking radiation temperature equation

Classical math problem pulled into self-driving cars

● Feynman 100

Einstein’s “spooky action” goes massive!

New ‘green’ concrete using graphene

Researchers investigate 'why clothes don't fall apart'

‘Superblack’ bird of paradise feathers absorb 99.95% of light

GIMPS project discovers largest known prime number

● Opening the Web

Crash! Scientists explain what happens when nanoparticles collide

Stealing Zuckerberg’s trash

Hubble finds first galaxy in the local universe without dark matter

Internet to TLS 1.3

Flexible ultrasound patch could make it easier to inspect damage in odd-shaped structures

Curiosity rover on its 2000th sol

● Farewell Professor Stephen Hawking

Celebrate Pi Day 2018 with NASA

Public Invited to Come Aboard NASA’s First Mission to Touch the Sun

Einstein's proof of Pythagorean theorem

FreeTube is an open source YouTube app for privacy

Visualization behind the formula of surface area of sphere