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Curated multi-part deep dives, engineering logs, and technical explorations.

4 Collections

Portfolio Dev Series

7 Parts

A series that follows the development of this website.

2024-07-19 – 2026-08-21

Chapters & Reading Sequence

  1. Part 1 First Post finished 2024-07-19
  2. Part 2 Portfolio Dev (Part 1): LaTeX and Code finished 2024-08-08
  3. Part 3 Portfolio Dev (Part 2): CI/CD and Self Hosting finished 2024-12-16
  4. Part 4 Portfolio Dev (Part 2.5): CI/CD and Self Hosting (Broken OS Edition) finished 2024-12-28
  5. Part 5 Portfolio Dev EP3: Accounts and Comments finished 2025-07-09
  6. Part 6 Portfolio Dev EP4: Frontend Changes + QOL Improvements finished 2025-10-24
  7. Part 7 Portfolio Dev EP5: Converting NextJS to Rust finished 2026-08-21

Math Teasers Series

1 Part

A series of math teasers.

2026-05-21

Chapters & Reading Sequence

  1. Part 1 Putnam 2001 B6 Problem finished 2026-05-21

Gaming & Audio Musings (GAM)

1 Part

Rambles and breakdowns of interesting music.

2026-01-23

Chapters & Reading Sequence

  1. Part 1 Goober Analyzes Music (GAM) - 'andata' by Ryuichi Sakamoto finished 2026-01-23

The Microsoft DP-100 Experience

4 Parts

A collection of notes/summaries of concepts for my MS-DP100 exam.

2025-07-11 – 2025-07-21

Chapters & Reading Sequence

  1. Part 1 The Microsoft DP-100 Experience finished 2025-07-11
  2. Part 2 MS-DP100 Self-Learning Course: Module 1 finished 2025-07-12
  3. Part 3 MS-DP100 Self-Learning Course: Module 2 finished 2025-07-18
  4. Part 4 MS-DP100 Self-Learning Course: Module 3 finished 2025-07-21
  • Portfolio Dev EP5: Converting NextJS to Rust

    2026-08-21 finished

    The things you can do for a 2ms latency reduction...

  • 'The PP Recommender': Autoencoded Osu! Beatmap Recommendations

    2026-08-12 in progress

    Many osu! skillset analyzers exist, but what if we built an axis-free one?

  • Shallow Roots

    2026-06-25 finished

    A modestly developed skeleton + some ideas that I wanted to share.

  • Putnam 2001 B6 Problem

    2026-05-21 finished

    A friend gave me this problem for fun, and I thought it was interesting.

  • Goober Analyzes Music (GAM) - 'andata' by Ryuichi Sakamoto

    2026-01-23 finished

    A dive into a good song, a nice book and the concept of suffering

  • 'Can we Descend Deeper' : Some Optimization Techniques in Machine Learning

    2025-11-03 in progress

    We are traditionally taught about gradient descent in ML, but what about other ways?

  • Gimme My Mail: Self-Hosted Email Server

    2025-10-27 finished

    Building a self-hosted email server with a SMTP relay!

  • Portfolio Dev EP4: Frontend Changes + QOL Improvements

    2025-10-24 finished

    I made a bunch of small updates to my portfolio site!

  • MS-DP100 Self-Learning Course: Module 3

    2025-07-21 finished

    My knowledge base of the Microsoft DP-100 self-learning course (Module 3)

  • MS-DP100 Self-Learning Course: Module 2

    2025-07-18 finished

    My knowledge base of the Microsoft DP-100 self-learning course (Module 2)

  • MS-DP100 Self-Learning Course: Module 1

    2025-07-12 finished

    My knowledge base of the Microsoft DP-100 self-learning course (Module 1)

  • The Microsoft DP-100 Experience

    2025-07-11 finished

    What in the world is a data scientist anyway

  • Portfolio Dev EP3: Accounts and Comments

    2025-07-09 finished

    I want feedback on my blogs. Therefore...

  • Portfolio Dev (Part 2.5): CI/CD and Self Hosting (Broken OS Edition)

    2024-12-28 finished

    My operating system broke and I had to reinstall everything xd

  • Portfolio Dev (Part 2): CI/CD and Self Hosting

    2024-12-16 finished

    I am now self hosting my website. How did I do this?

  • Secret Santa

    2024-12-05 finished

    I made a scuffed Secret Santa generator for my friends with weird authentication

  • Portfolio Dev (Part 1): LaTeX and Code

    2024-08-08 finished

    First detailed code analysis: my own portfolio! Take a look at my funky setup :D

  • Cat or Car?

    2024-08-06 finished

    Demo for a little project that I made using a convolutional neural network!

  • INSuRE 2024 Program

    2024-08-01 finished

    A brief summary of my experience in the INSURE 2024 program.

  • College Goals

    2024-07-22 finished

    Remembering my goals as I enter my last year of college

  • First Post

    2024-07-19 finished

    An informal post about the motivation behind this website, inspirations and acknowledgements.

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