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After using Go for a couple years, I’ve really come to appreciate its simplicity. I started writing Go at work a couple months ago, and have found it really easy to iterate on – much more so than Python and Java.

Earlier this year, I was persuaded to start paper journaling. Paper journaling is unlikely to replace digital task management for me, but there definitely are some benefits to an analog, offline journal.

This is something of a post-summer retrospective. I graduated in May, and “took the summer off” to work on personal projects and travel.

I’m happy to announce the release of Messy, an iOS puzzle game I’ve been working on for the last few months. 😄

Last weekend, I graduated from UIUC with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science. Thus brings an end (for now, at least) to my formal education career. It still hasn’t really hit me yet that I’m “done,” but I am looking forward to traveling a bit this summer, and then starting my full-time job in the fall. This will be kind of an unorganized post, as many of my ideas aren’t completely formed yet, but I wanted to write down some reflections on my college experience.

For the last couple of months, I’ve been working on-and-off in Haskell for my programming languages class. I’ve written previously about my preference for declarative functional syntax, but I’d never really spent the time to learn a pure Functional Programming™️ language.

Every once in a while, you “discover” something so banal that it’s become a cliché, and yet it still feels like some deep insight. It’s a strangely humbling experience.

One of the most interesting rabbit holes to explore on Twitter is #plottertwitter. Under this hashtag, you’ll see a variety of computer-generated artwork and videos of plotting machines that sound like they’re being controlled by ancient floppy drive motors.

iOS Shortcuts is one of my favorite additions to iOS in its past several iterations. I used its predecessor, Workflow, for a while, but I didn’t invest too heavily in it because there was a nagging feeling in the back of my head that Apple would kill it at some point. However, they did the opposite!