Lots of my tags got overgeneralized... so adding some new, specific ones.
Tinkerer
A teenager's tech blog.
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Monday, August 24, 2026
Psychic Fatigue, Part II: Mental Debugging in a Department Store
So, in my last little post, I mentioned how I messed with a WinForms DPI Scaling bug on a trip. Considerable time has passed since I wrote that post. And now that I think about it, the decisions I made there went more and more terrible.
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Sunken cost
When you don't realize a contest is ending and spends all your time grinding the last problem to seem cool...
A slightly altered 2000 AMC 12 #20
There's like many trash and trivial and way too personal posts on my blog recently, so thought we should do something hardcore here.
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Some analysis about modern filmmaking, especially relating to Frozen III
At D23 there were some Frozen III teasers, and online communities seems to have organized all the relevant videos etc. about it in one place. So here I just wanna discuss some things I've seen here and there because frankly, some of the things presented is worth commenting on.
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
What they don't tell you about energy
It turns out that... HS is the complete opposite of what I though.
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Announcing New Tags on this Blog
Lots of my tags got overgeneralized... so adding some new, specific ones.
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TL;DR This is the blog of John, a 14-year-old (as of writing) programmer and tinkerer who likes to untangle things and understand them.
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A neat little calculus theorem, then a practical application.
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I post here semi-frequently. But it's summer, and there's other things I may be doing, like grinding through math problems (as you ...