Tag: Learning
For the Love of Language
I love studying languages. Learning a new language takes time, and sometimes we assume we should be better at it. But learning to communicate with new groups helps us to understand and connect with the people around us.
Photopad: Encrypting Text with JPEG Files
A picture is worth a thousand pads™
Aprendizaje Infinito
by Sergio San Juan
Status Post Format
This is a status post format. Similar to the Aside, it usually displays with no title. So this format can use the same template with no title.
Aside Post Format
This is an Aside post format in WordPress.
Run a better book club
Notes from a moderately-successful book club I ran for Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
Standard Post Format
As I learn how content is shared through ActivityPub with WordPress, there are different formats that content can be posted as, the default being standard. This is the format of an article, generally used for long-form content. The additionally supported post formats, for the default post type, available are documented here, which are: Aside Audio...
Nix Starter
Beginner-friendly, self-contained NixOS configurations with no personal infrastructure or shared abstractions.
Visualizing Ukkonen's Suffix Tree Algorithm
I learned algorithms from textbooks and papers, building mental models from pseudocode and hand-drawn sketches. The hardest part was never reading the algorithm: it was seeing what it was actually doing to the data structure in memory. This post is the tool I wish I had back then.
Newborn tips
A few tips I wish I had known before having a child.
college-practice-lycanquiz
A VB.NET Windows Forms quiz about werewolf mythology, made as a college practice project.
college-practice-trafficlights
A VB.NET Windows Forms UK traffic light simulator, made as a college practice project.
2025 in review
2025 was my year of doing ALL the things - speaking at 5+ conferences, starting a podcast, shipping side projects, and somehow not completely burning out. I learned that momentum creates more momentum, perfectionism is overrated, and seeing people in real life again after years of isolation is actually really, really good.
Why Start Again? On Cycles, Beginnings, and the Art of Returning
Exploring the value of public writing as reference material, why blogging serves as better knowledge management than private notes, and embracing cycles of beginning again
Complete CSS
I bought a copy of Complete CSS from Picalli.li a few weeks ago, with the intention of upping my CSS game. It's old territory for me, but my layout techniques pre-date flex... floats, clear fixes and IE hacks. Looking forward to learning some new techniques as I update the site. Go beyond syntax expertise and...
Grind 75 study plan
Hey folks. This is my study and accountability blog for making my way through the Grind 75 set of LeetCode problems. I’ve never found much success studying Data Structures and Algorithms, so I'm going to focus on the patterns used for each solution more than the solutions themselves.
The Feynman method
Richard Feynman was a polymath , who did pioneering work in the Manhatten Project, quantum physics, parallel computing, and nanotechnology. One would expect he knows a thing or two about learning. Lucky for us, he boiled his technique down into 4…
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – you have to want to know – in order to open up the space…
Facts compose
The value of facts (patterns that hold under certain constraints) is that they are composable.
Learn in public
Rustlings Session 3: When Your Sleep Schedule is More Nocturnal Than Your Code
So, Session 3 is done. Sections 10-12 knocked out in about 45 minutes around 18:00 today. Not terrible, considering I'm running on the sort of energy levels you'd expect from someone who went to sleep at 08:30 and didn't surface until 15:00. Cheers, autism, for making my circadian rhythm decide that lycanthropy is the way forward—even when the moon's only waxing gibbous.
Rustlings Session 2: Structs, Enums, and Why I'm an Idiot (Sections 7-9)
Six hours after finishing Session 1, I was back at it with Rustlings. This time tackling sections 7-9: structs, enums, and strings. What should have been a smooth continuation turned into me fighting with basic enum syntax for far longer than any reasonable person should.
Rustlings Session 1: First Steps into Rust (Sections 0-6)
Well, I’ve finally done it. Before this, I knew next to nothing about Rust—like, I’d heard the name tossed around and maybe caught a snippet or two, but no real clue what it was about. After months of hearing about Rust from seemingly every corner of the programming world, I decided to dive in properly with Rustlings—the hands-on learning tool that throws you into the deep end with compiler errors and expects you to swim.
Rustlings — First Steps into Rust
Five Rustlings sessions covering variables through type systems — the enthusiasm, the compiler battles, and the decision to stop.
The Linguistic Archaeology of English: How Latin and Greek Built Our Modern Vocabulary
English, my native language, has always struck me as a bit of a magpie. It's got this uncanny knack for picking up vocabulary from just about every language it brushes up against—a sort of linguistic collector, pocketing curious words like shiny trinkets. Yet, amidst this eclectic jumble, no influences have left quite so deep a mark as Latin and Greek.