May 30, 2025

Monthly Roundup: May 2025

What I Listened To

shoot, no na

Replay, Cynthia Erivo

TiFFANY, iDK featuring Gunna I especially love it because I heard it first when a marching band played this song, and their rendition was so nice I went to find the original song, and then I fell in love with the song.

Hold Them Down, Jorge Rivera-Herrans After many recommendations, I've finally given and listened to some of the EPIC musical songs and this song was what really got me interested in the whole thing.

LEGOLAS, ODUMODUBLVCK Odumodu basically rehashed DOG EAT DOG II. I don't mind though, and I'm looking forward to the album.

What I Did

• I finally got round to backing up my configuration files (dotfiles). SublimeMerge was helpful, although it seems slightly easier to do all the git things in a terminal (even though I have to sign in every time I want to push a commit).
• I also spent the majority of this month in school, standing in theatres and ward rounds. I'll be doing the same thing next month, but at least I won't be in the OR.
• Started learning shell scripting. TBH the only reason I'm doing this is so I can try out gum.

What I Read

• The Art of Gold Digging: a webnovel about a girl isekai-ed into one of those mysterious characters who show up only to say cryptic stuff that isn't very helpful. I've been looking for something that gives us a glimpse of what the readers of the novel the MC has been isekai-ed into think of the character, and finally I've found this. It's still ongoing but I hope it goes well. So far, so good.
• Chasing Sunlight, Inadvisably Compelled

Other Stuff I'd Like to Share

• Theme of the month: Nord.
• I finally replaced nano with micro after much initial skepticism. How different could they be? They're both CLI text editors, I thought. Well, I tried micro out at last and the difference is so clear I can't believe I've been willingly using nano when micro existed all along.
  • For one, the keybindings in micro are much more intuitive. I don't have to Ctrl+X to save when I can just use the regular Ctrl+S shortcut that everyone knows.
  • Another point for micro: it has themes. I don't know if it's obvious yet but I like theming my stuff. I like everything to look nice, and micro seems to like that too.
• I came across a fanzine about the animals of One Piece. One of my dreams is to own a Suu plushy, so this was a lovely find in the midst of the hell I'm currently going through. They even have digital merch like wallpapers and printable stickers, which is a nice bonus. Even better, it's all completely free!

• After years of using the same launcher, I finally let go of Nova Launcher on my phone. I wanted something new, so I went looking for FOSS launchers. It ended up being Kvaesitso.
  • What I love most about Kvaesitso is the search function. I could search and find files on my BlackBerry from the home screen, but Android didn't seem to have that function and I haven't found any other launchers that can do that. This is where Kvaesitso shines for me.
  • I can do calculations, set a timer, find a contact—all from my search bar. The only thing I dislike about Kvaesitso is losing the folders I had on my home screen and app drawer with Nova.

What I'm Looking Forward To

• Failbetter Games, the studio behind games such as Fallen London, Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies (these games provide part of the lore and inspiration for Chasing Sunlight), are debuting a new game in June. It won't be in the Fallen London universe, unlike all their other games, but I'm still excited to see it anyway.
• There's going to be a Comic Con in my area soon. Hopefully I won't go broke buying merch.
• It'll be two months to my final board exams in June.

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