Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Medium Daily Integral Writeup 7/22/22, to draw attention to a calculus property

A neat little calculus theorem, then a practical application.

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.