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Movie Director Genders
I’ve always loved watching movies. This started way back when I was in elementary school and my dad designated the largest room in our house as...
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How I Take Notes With Vim, Markdown, and Pandoc
I’ve gone through quite a few revisions of my note-taking process and now that I’m in my final year of school, I think I’ve finally...
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Open Source Students: Jay Kamat
This week’s interview features Jay Kamat (jgkamat), a Computer Science student at Georgia Tech. I first found Jay through his work on...
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Counting Usernames from Malicious Login Attempts
A while back, when I was relatively new to running a VPS (I’m still new, but I’m less new than I was then), I was looking through my sshd...
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Open Source Students: Timothy Gu
In this first post in my series interviewing students in open source, I chose to interview fellow UCLA student Timothy Gu (TimothyGu). Timothy is a...
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College Advice I Would Give My Freshman Self
As I approach the end of my undergraduate years at UCLA, I’ve been spending some time reflecting what I’ve learned and the improvements...
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Open Source Students: Introduction
I’ve been interested in the open source world for about as long as I’ve been interested in programming, and despite wanting to ever since...
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Saving $167,000 on Groceries
I usually spend a good chunk of my free time reading articles and listening to podcasts on software development, tech, and other industry news. Over...
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Thoughts on Qutebrowser
I recently began using a web browser called Qutebrowser. I heard about it on Hacker News a while ago and it caught my attention because it encouraged...
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Finding Free Food with Python
If you live in a major city, there’s a good chance you’ve used (or at least heard of) food delivery services like Postmates, GrubHub, or...
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Systemd Timers as a Cron Alternative
I recently gave a short talk at the UCLA Linux User Group about Systemd Timers and how they can be used as an alternative to Cron jobs. If...
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Writing an HTTP server in Prolog
I’m taking a class now on programming languages where I’m learning all about the different styles of languages and how they can all be...
RSS Feed
RSS is awesome. It's a protocol that lets you subscribe to sites like this that publish content that can be represented as a feed. In order to use RSS, you'll need an RSS reader. I like to follow things with RSS reader because it lets me see all of the feeds I subscribe to in one place, in a consistent format, with fewer distractions, and without an algorithm telling me which articles and blog posts I should like. RSS isn't perfect, but I think it's the best widely-available solution for keeping up with content creators that I like.