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5.29.2025

Listening to Lofi Girl while I do homework is way more effective at getting me to focus than it has any right to be. The music is just so happy and relaxing. It does temporarily bother me when one of the songs has voices in it, but that's very rare compared to a lot of playlists. Anyway, I finished most of my homework for the week, I just have to finish my programming project which should be pretty easy. I'm mildly disappointed by how it's not straightforward to just make every GTK application the same color scheme on Ubuntu (we have to use Eclipse for this class, which doesn't have a built-in color scheme switcher like my usual code editor). It doesn't bother me, sepia themes are just prettier. Especially the light versions of Gruvbox and Solarized.

5.26.2025

A while back I read something about how much you learn from watching a skilled person do something and I'm really feeling that right now. I just watched this person playing difficult songs on osu! and noticed they were using the keyboard to click, which I was vaguely aware was a thing you could do but never really considered until now. I tried playing that way and it seriously makes it so much easier!

5.23.2025

I'm taking a class right now where we have to make flowcharts explaining the programs we write, and I'm so happy I get to use my flowchart symbol stencils >:D

5.6.2025

Pulling out the mathematical proofs style guide again to help me make my rambling more coherent. It doesn't change the fact that the hardest problem in math is naming variables. :p Seriously, programming has spoiled me so much with the ability to name variables entire words and phrases.

Anyway, I'm very happy that KaTeX exists and it makes putting math on websites very easy once you know what you're looking at, but damn its website is a dense piece of shit. I did find a getting started guide that someone else wrote, which explains the basic usage of it far better than the official website. I'm glad that I have the ability to sift through technical documentation to figure out how stuff works, but sometimes I just want it to work, y'know?

5.5.2025

For the Password Game post, I calculated how many hex color codes have what sums by brute force, but now I'm really interested in figuring out what the formula for that is. Now that I know the answers to check my work, I calculated how many have sums 0-6 by hand, but haven't simplified it past this:

Sum Ways to obtain
0 76
1 6(75)
2 6(75) + 15(74)
3 6(75) + 30(74) + 20(73)
4 6(75) + 45(74) + 60(73) + 15(72)
5 6(75) + 60(74) + 120(73) + 60(72) + 6(7)
6 6(75) + 75(74) + 200(73) + 150(72) + 24(7) + 1

There definitely is a pattern, and there's a formula for the probability of getting p points when rolling n s-sided die, which is likely related. Sooooo that is what I will be working on for the next while.

5.2.2025

I am once again thinking about the insane math that went into making the Android calculator app.

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