Hi there, I'm Pagwin

I post here sometimes

Posts:

A list of useful resources for learning web dev

Pruning down a list I found elsewhere so when I give resources in future I can at least vouch a little bit

What is memory safety?

Trying to answer this question and reaching a bad definition before getting bored and moving on

To make a Markdown* parser

I made a Markdown parser for the static site generator powering this site

Making a platonically ideal light/dark theme toggle on the web

And exploring other solutions along the way

Retrospective on my software engineering class

Writing about how I felt my software engineering class went

All my projects to date

A description of everything I've done albeit minimizing the fails and shortcomings

The Tolerant Graph Synchronization Problem

Trying to formalize an interesting comp sci problem with real world applications.

Common procedural programming abstractions

a sequel to a post I wrote about the basics of procedural programming

Weekly notes for my software engineering class

Accidentally constructing the paradoxical universal Matrix Graph

I'm concerned the title of this post overhypes what's really just abstract math nonsense that leads to something funny by accident

Micro blogs (2)

a bunch of thoughts ideas and what not that aren't worth of full blogs but that I still want to write down

Some minor writing things I just learned

TIL what [sic] and [emphasis mine] mean

Blog revamp

I redid the blog and made my own static site generator

Bits bobs and notes from HackBU 2024

A summary of my experience, lessons and thoughts on the HackBU 2024 hackathon

Micro blogs (1)

a bunch of thoughts ideas and what not that aren't worth of full blogs but that I still want to write down

Speeding through misc stuff

I want to get out a bunch of stuff that's in the git repo or my head so I'm dumping it here

Fractions Sidequest

In my last blog I wrote about my explorations on a new number type that specifies fractions rather than approximate binimal(? decimal has a latin root for 10 but floating point uses binary so what word?) or integers

Fractions

So I've been thinking about representing fractions/rational numbers in binary effieciently...

Rust Type Hiccups

A couple of hiccups I've run into with rust's type system

Rust Match and Enums

A blog article I wrote to win a dumb argument

Yeeting the distractions and setting goals

So recently I've begun work on trying to remove distractions so I'm more likely to work on productive stuff and this blog is effectively a lightning round of things I did to accomplish that

Serenity pains

A rant against how serenity forces the developer to handle state

Pogo so far

A summary of the work I've done on pogo so far and where I intend to go with it

Setting up CD for this site

How I setup Github actions to automatically update this site

A universal tutorial on the basics for every* programming language

A tutorial that covers all the basic concepts that procedural languages commonly have

Mineflayer pains

Describing all the pains with mineflayer I've dealt with so far

How this website was made

It's with hugo and the rest of this is probably gonna be short and boring viewer discretion is advised