I Hate VS Code
Now that school is over, I’ve had some time for leisure. This to me, means spending a couple of days learning a new programming language until I inevitably...
A Return to Aspect-Oriented Programming
Last week, I officially finished up the course component of my Masters degree. Submitting the final report for CPSC 508 felt like a massive weight had been...
Limbo
The time is 8:41 PM on Sunday, April 25, 2021. I almost forgot to write one of these again. I’m seriously giving thought to whether I should start setting...
Pause
Oops, looks like I forgot to write a newsletter yesterday. There goes my streak of Sunday newsletter releases. I honestly thought today (Monday, April 19)...
Final Stretch (Final Version)
We're now nearly halfway through April, and I seriously cannot believe how fast time flew by. I started grad school back in September of last year, this is a...
Final Stretch
The date is April 4, 2021. It's the last month of my first "year" of grad school. As cliche as this sounds, I can't believe how fast time flew by. I spent a...
Vaccination Timeline = Ever Given??
By the time I finish writing this newsletter, a large container ship (the size of 4 football fields. I don’t remember the last time I’ve been to an American...
Goodbye for real, Pinetree Grill
I spent most of my life growing up in Coquitlam, BC. If you don't know where that is, it's a small suburb of Vancouver. It's well known for being right at...
Familiar Faces
It's going to be a short(er) newsletter this week, but there's still stuff to chat about! Back in January, I ordered an ergonomic chair. I've been moving...
To Me, 1 Year Ago From Now
March 2020 The title of this newsletter is a blatant rip-off of the first episode of the series Attack on Titan, but I really couldn't resist given what I'm...
February's Over?
The past week was a busy one, so I’ll try to compress it as much as I can. On Monday, I presented a paper, “When APIs are Intentionally Bypased: An...
Luck
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the idea of luck and how much bearing it might have on success. Many successful people attribute their place in life...
Reading Week
So, yeah. The image above really sets the tone for this week's newsletter. This past Friday, our first project for CPSC 539: Program Verifiers and Program...
Hey I didn't know Markdown had Support for Footnotes
We are now well into the second month of 2021, and I can say that it's been a busy time so far. I debated not writing a newsletter this week but I thought it...
This is kinda hard
This is probably the latest I've sent out one of these. Honestly speaking, I'm surprised I've kept it up. Last week was a whirlwind of work; I had an...
The Snow that Never Came
There's been a lot of talk over the past few days about the first snowfall of the year; it was projected that 5 to 10cm of snow would fall in Metro...
Milkman! I am no Milkman! I am a South Korean Yakult Lady!
I should first explain the rather nonsensical title. One of my friends who is off doing machine learning (waves hands) showed me this paper published at...
Recording Lectures is (not) my Passion
Last week, I got an email from the prof whose course I'm TA'ing this term: Would you be able to record your C0 tutorial, rather than having us run it in...
Starcraft and the New Year
Happy New Year! Now that we have that out of the day, I have something far more interesting to write about: Starcraft 2 My friends know that I’m not that big...
Matters of the heart (2020 in the rear-view window)
In this newsletter, I won’t be talking about my hopes and dreams for love, but I promise the title isn’t clickbait. Instead, as I look back on a year in...