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Dear reader, Over the past few months, I’ve had the displeasure of assisting my younger sister with her college application essays. My mom asked me to help because I’m “the best writer in the family” and, quite literally, a writing professional. When I tried to protest — I find it incredibly unfair that some students get professional help on co...

Dear reader, I’ve been on hold for 5 6.5 hours now, and waiting for a callback from this airline for about a day. When there’s an issue, my mind tends to go straight to solution mode. I find exploring ideas and running through hypothetical situations quite cathartic. I actually think this is my super skill as a user experience professional —...

Dear reader, I don’t really feel like writing much today; I’ve had a bit of a rough evening. I hope yours was better! Flipper Zero I’ve wanted to buy a Flipper Zero for the past few months. I’d want to mess around with it to learn more about hardware, signals, and do some innocuous pentesting, but I’ve heard rumors that I’ll get tracked by the...

Dear reader, I don’t have inspiration to write about any particular topic, but since I want to force myself to write consistently, I’ll do a good ol’ fashioned braindump. Owls I learned a few things about owls yesterday. Owls have long and chonky legs: You can also see owls’ eyeballs through their ears (warning: a bit graphic for the squeam...

Dear reader, I’ll be honest, I’m on dating apps. More specifically, Bumble. So far, I’ve found the experience anxiety-inducing and unnatural. It’s a newfangled thing Everyone I’ve been in a relationship with, up to this point, has been my friend for at least months (but mostly years) at a time before we’ve even considered going on a date. Sta...

Dear reader, People tend to say that teenagers straddle childhood and adulthood. I definitely felt like that when I was a teenager: stuck between the responsibilties of growing older and the constraints of being young. I’m in a similar boat in my twenties. I feel pressure to do “adult” things like make awkward small talk with strangers in ele...

Dear reader, I started using the phrase “anal retention” in its various forms recently. Why? It’s funny I like seeing my friends’ reactions to it Most of my friends are not very fond of — might I say, anal retentive — about my usage of the phrase because they think of butt stuff. Rightfully so. Perhaps I’m also writing this post to illic...

Dear reader, I always confuse Markdown syntax with sites’ custom markdown syntaxes, so please forgive me if this page looks disgusting. Since Twitter has gone rogue (thanks Elon) and I will no longer spend hours doomscrolling, I figured that I’d try out blogging. The first step is just to set up this blog. Edit: Uhh, Elon might actually step ...