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guide - render markdown file to pdf for printing

how to render your markdown file into pdf for printing… also you can use multiple columns to make it look like a newspaper

published 2024-03-11 · updated 2024-03-11 · 2 min

guide - make your digital audio workstation. where music meets creativity.

music making has always been a difficult hobby. you have many instruments, and then you have drums and vocals… how do you handle it all? a few demonstrations of what it’s like to make music: artists always use a digital audio workstation (abbreviated DAW) to compose tracks, which then would be configured for volume levels, instrument presets, and audio filters. it’s amazing how much content there is in a single song....

published 2024-03-10 · updated 2024-03-08 · 2 min

analysis - what's obsidian, and should you use it?

intro to obsidian obsidian is a closed source PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) and note-taking application that operates on markdown files. it runs on macos, windows, linux, ios and android. it is a great information storage system, and its file structure is similar to that of a wiki. on all platforms, obsidian offers features like plugins and themes, which makes its editing experience greatly powerful and customizable features of obsidian are differentiated between core plugins, which are released by the obsidian team, and community plugins, which are open-sourced through github and are contributed by users....

published 2024-02-10 · updated 2024-02-11 · 3 min

guide - use syncthing to sync files between computers (with git for version control)

how to install syncthing and use it to sync files, and also use git to do version control

published 2024-02-03 · updated 2024-02-04 · 3 min

guide - install brew on your mac

this is a clear guide on how to install brew on your mac. bonus: list of useful packages and apps you can install with brew!

published 2024-02-02 · updated 2024-02-04 · 3 min

opinion - music freedom

music freedom is how the processes involved with creating a piece of music is clearly described, open and accessible so that it’s easy look into how the music was made and to learn from it.

published 2024-01-18 · updated 2024-01-19 · 2 min

snippet - consciousness and perception

a small philosophical text about consciousness and perception

published 2024-01-05 · updated 2024-01-20 · 2 min

analysis - AR glasses

intro well, we have read about augmented reality for years… augmented reality is an interesting technology around 2013, there were experimental AR devices like hololens and google glass… the concept was that AR glasses should be similar in size to regular glasses technology requirements to make some features, AR glasses would have sensors like radar, camera and microphone. not only so, but the glasses would need great computational power to recognize the surrounding environment....

published 2023-12-23 · updated 2024-01-08 · 2 min

analysis - factors of personality

i decided to research on personality because i was inspired by the definition of the 5 personality factors. this further lead to me analyzing about: surveys, how useful they are and how they can be constructed five factors of personality traits ~ The Big Five are five broad factors (dimensions) of personality traits. They are: Extraversion (sometimes called Surgency). The broad dimension of Extraversion encompasses such more specific traits as talkative, energetic, and assertive....

published 2023-12-21 · updated 2024-03-06 · 4 min

guide - rss feeds and content updates

websites can use RSS feeds to send updates

published 2023-12-02 · updated 2024-01-08 · 2 min

guide - searching for information online

google when searching in google, using these arguments can make searching much easier. "" exact matching can make sure that the keyword is matched exactly. searching for "searching methods" will return results that match this exactly. after: before: using “after:” or “before:” with a date in YYYY-MM-DD format can filter results by published date. for example, after:2023-01-06 searching methods intitle: matching your search term in the title of the webpage....

published 2023-12-02 · updated 2024-01-19 · 3 min