From 552efc6942bd9f68d4874cf2cd40efb8c1386669 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mtgmonkey Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2025 00:34:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] daily --- content/daily/2025-08-01.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ templates/blog.html | 2 +- 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 content/daily/2025-08-01.md diff --git a/content/daily/2025-08-01.md b/content/daily/2025-08-01.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e85760 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/daily/2025-08-01.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ ++++ +title = "Welcome to the blog!" +date = 2025-08-01 ++++ + +### Welcome to the blog! + +The previous blog posts are broken and not to be taken with more than a grain of salt. I will be posting every day from today until my return from Germany! I will take the train down to Washington D.C. on the 6th of August and will say goodbye to my parents on the 7th. My excitement is nearly unbearable! + +## Preparation + +I've been keeping myself busy. I'm using [Anki](https://github.com/ankitects/anki) coupled with the [Goethe Institute A1 Wordlist](https://github.com/patsytau/anki_german_a1_vocab) at a rate of 60 new cards a day to crunch vocabulary. Because my prior knowledge of German is poor, I really need to keep a good pace if I want to be successful at the language! My theory is that my current circumstances, i.e. neither direct instruction nor immersion, lend themselves best to brute memorization (though I know [Stephen Krashen](https://www.sdkrashen.com/content/books/principles_and_practice.pdf) would disagree). + +I'm also packing. This is a good time for me to trim down on needless belongings because I'll be moving out by the time I return! I love [Marie Kondo's](https://konmari.com/) methodology of joy-based purging. I find it quite freeing. + +## Programming + +As always, I have a number of programming projects going on at the moment. I just completed [Rust Elaborator](https://git.mtgmonkey.net/Andromeda/rust-elaborator/), a custom tool created at the request of my step-mother. I faced a number of challenges with that project, the most prominent being that of operating system - she uses Windows, an OS I don't understand and don't have the infrastructure to run. As such, the [Windows exe](https://git.mtgmonkey.net/Andromeda/rust-elaborator/rust_elaborator.exe) isn't, to my chagrine, built with Nix. I instead set up a Windows 11 virtual machine with [Quickemu](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu), downloaded [Rustup](https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install), and compiled it the old-fashioned way. + +Thank you for reading this post! I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day + +~Andromeda <3 diff --git a/templates/blog.html b/templates/blog.html index 63775bc..b313241 100644 --- a/templates/blog.html +++ b/templates/blog.html @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ {% endblock content %}