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random10.09.2024

interpolation

Interpolation is defined as “the insertion of something of a different nature into something else.”

random24.05.2024

Better prose editing

TIL about an app that’ll edit your prose for you! Hemingway App should be able to help me write with better clarity and conciseness. I’m a wordy son of a gun.

random28.04.2024

kanak di rakhi

TIL that Kanak Di Rakhi is a Punjabi song that me and the Boys wild out to. It’s a banger. It came out in 1959 and is a must listen to and dance to at any reception.

random12.11.2023

AST Explorer

Turns out you can not only transform JS into an AST, but even SQL statements! Pretty nifty.

Check it out

random10.08.2023

Davinci's childhood

TIL that Leondard Davinci was the illegitimate son of a notary and a prostitute 😯!

random15.06.2023

neovim and chatgpt

I was googling around and saw that there was a plugin created to allow me to use chatgpt inside of neovim! I just downloaded it and I got to say, it is quite nice 😊!

neovim and chatgpt together
random24.04.2023

develobears

Check it out; thank me later! Gotta love my besties!

Check it out

random20.04.2023

Say hello in Paris

Heading to Paris with a friend group soon and our research revealed that we should say Bonjour to folks as we encounter them in our travels. Stark contrast to Vancouver where no one says anything to anyone 🤣.

random01.07.2021

Recursion

Never forget, recursion occurs when a thing is defined in terms of itself.

YOU CAN HAVE ITERATION INSIDE OF A RECURSIVE FUNCTION.

Iteration and recursion aren’t mutually exclusive.

random22.05.2021

Carl Sagan + Weed

Turns out Carl Sagan was a big proponent of Marijuana. Who knew lolz.

random04.05.2021

How to deal with a stye

Lol so I got a stye and a home remedy that I’ve been using is a tea bag.

You steep the tea bag for one minute and when it’s bearable, rest the teabag on the affected eye for 5-10 minutes. Preferably use black tea.

random07.03.2021

Wood filler

If you’ve created too large of a hole inside of your drywall and you want to reuse the same hole for perhaps a drywall anchor, using spackle as filling won’t be enough.

Use wood filler; this’ll give you the consistency and strength you need for loadbearing purposes in the drywall.

random16.02.2021

Massive SVG and art board sizes

So lol when I was exporting an SVG from Affinity, I noticed that the svg size was around 3 mb. Reducing the art board size made the export size waaaay better.

random09.02.2021

affinity designer

Turns out we aren’t forced to be shackled to the Adobe suite 🤣. There’s similar software called Affinity that does pretty much what Adobe does (without the arm and leg payment).

Check it out

random18.01.2021

VSCode regions

TIL that vscode has region folding! It’s like this:

//#region
const y = () => {}
const x = () => {}
//#endregion

Check it out

random26.12.2020

Printer ink

TIL that printer ink requires a vehicle (a resin like honey) and a pigment (a powder). There’s a lot that goes into this process and it is pretty damn cool.

How’s it made

random22.12.2020

Credit card skimmers and shimmers

TIL that there are credit card scams around like skimmers and shimmers that oftentimes show up at gas station pumps and other brick-and-mortar shops.

To avoid being a victim, do not pay at the pump if they require you to insert the card at the pump (these pumps can be tampered with whilst the inside card reader most likely will not be). Pay with tap when you can

Also, don’t forget to check your transactions regularly and check out free credit reporting services like Borrowell.

random14.12.2020

learning-repos

There’s so much to learn and more than enough time! Here are some cool links to check out.

random20.11.2020

Resort Area!

TIL that there’s a dope resort spot in South Asia. Maldives.

random16.08.2020

Simple grape tomato breakfast

My friend Anil showed me an awesome breakfast recipe that incorporates grape tomatoes and ricotta cheese (both things I hardly eat…until now 😼)

Check it out here

random06.02.2020

California stop

My girl taught me about the California stop; it’s essentially the same thing as a rolling stop but cooler sounding.

random02.02.2020

WW2, Jews, and a Homeless Woman

I’ve always believed wholeheartedly in the following quote,

A fool will learn nothing from a wise man. But a wise man will learn much from a fool.

Yesterday evening, I was approached by a visibly homeless woman and amidst her musings about how Canada is a flawed nation where people are left to suffer as corporate greed consumes the very essence of the city and about how one doesn’t necessarily need a highschool education to be intelligent, she dropped a nugget of wisdom on me that I’ll carry with me for quite some time.

According to this woman, and I googled this after to make sure that it was in fact true, the people of Denmark actively assisted in helping Jewish Danes escape from Hitler by evacuating them to neutral Sweden.

By no means am I saying that this woman is a fool; please don’t misunderstand me. What I’m trying to hit home with this TIL is that wisdom can come from anywhere, whether it’s a college professor or a homeless woman who, and I can’t make this up, began urinating in her pants mid conversation… everyone has got something to offer.

random27.07.2019

Call a Spade a Spade

Turns out a spade is also a suit for cards and a type of shovel! 😱.

random26.07.2019

Potato seeds are actually just rotten potatoes!

There is no such thing as “potato seeds”… it’s just a “seed potato”! That is… there are only potatoes in this world 😱.

random31.07.2021

A Mind for Numbers

Blog post about: Learn how to best manage your mind for optimal efficiency when problem solving!