A neat little calculus theorem, then a practical application.
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
An unusual way of telescoping
Middle school was a flower in spring: It was beautiful, it bloomed, yet it wilts momentarily and leaves behind the barren, untamed, yet still hopeful landscape. It was a lot, yet it was too little that I had done in that time. One of those middle school things that I continued to cherish was those middle school math contests.
Sunday, July 19, 2026
Energy Management
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 have seen on this blog I'm very interested in math). I also do a variety of other interests.
Announcing the Tinkerer Archive!
I noted in a previous blogpost about CSS setup that it was possible to print each blogpost onto a nice layout. Now, I am announcing an official archive of all posts on this blog, stored in a public Google Drive link as PDFs.
Friday, July 17, 2026
Left as Exercise
Last post ended up way longer than expected with the backstory, so posting a small joke to satisfy potentially tired readers (and a lesson I learnt from the situation).
Exactly Why Are There 8 Tetracubes?
Hello, and welcome to another edition of Tinkerer! Today, I will be sharing my writeup of why there are only $8$ of those beloved tetracubes that we all cherish and play with.
Thursday, July 16, 2026
Lessons Learnt from Customizing My CSS for This Blog
... or, Behind the Scenes: How I do my styling for this blog. Shorter post this time with list of takeaways.
A C++ Pitfall (or, respect Java)
It seems like a lot of programmers have been making fun of Java lately. I'm also guilty of this; I teased badly about Java with a gal that just finished AP Computer Science A, who claims that she loves it. (I regretted it later. If you see this, sorry.)
First Post!
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.
Medium Daily Integral Writeup 7/22/22, to draw attention to a calculus property
A neat little calculus theorem, then a practical application.
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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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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 ...
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Hello, and welcome to another edition of Tinkerer ! Today, I will be sharing my writeup of why there are only $8$ of those beloved tetracu...