Alex’s Blog
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Cybersecurity is *fascinating* to anyone who has a rudimentary understanding of how computers work and morbid curiosity on how systems work (and more specifically, how they break). This is my collection of interesting podcasts, stories, and links to learn more or deep dive into various topics. I’ll be updating it over time like my Distributed…
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This is a post on how we went from 0-60 on a backyard container garden, and provides some advice for how you can do the same. Container Gardening is a great way to utilize an otherwise infertile landscape to grow small amounts of edible or decorative plants.
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I’ve been meaning to put this out for a while, since I’ve confirmed the thing actually works. It’s really not much more than a with-pictures explanation of how to build a mid-specced gaming PC, but hopefully this proves educational for some.
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Ever wonder what happened to the Windows pinball game from back in the XP days? Turns out like most old software – it’s still around if you know where to look.
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This is probably the nerdiest post you’ll ever read on this site so strap in. (Huge thank you to Alex Handley and Jeff Cohen for collaborating w/me on this project!). It didn’t really hit me until second semester but I realized that Civil Procedure is really just akin to a trading card game I’ve consistently…
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Prompted by some of my current tasking at work, I went on a journey through Google’s history of research publications. Come join me on my quest to become a better back-end developer!
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The curse of being an engineer is that it’s not enough to simply complete a process, it has to be optimized as you go. Below are a few thoughts on optimizing the process of picking and juicing oranges:
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Impostor syndrome is when you’re convinced that you’ve faked your way to where you are now and that it’s only a matter of time before the people around you start to catch on. The problem here is that knowing you have it doesn’t actually make it any better.
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