Earnest's Personal Website

Earnest's Personal Website

Moved to Ghost!

I thought it was about time to switch things up, and I've migrated from Hugo to Ghost. It was quite easy to install and set up, although I ended slightly modifying the Casper theme. This included things like being able to have content on the home page, resizing

Screenshot of Obsidian editing this post with an iTerm window next to it

Drafting blog posts in Obsidian

So I've had this website for a few years now, and since most of that time I've been using Hugo, Doom Emacs was my choice to write and edit. But recently it's been really weird and crashy on my macbook, so I've

Screenshot of the field selection menu. The corner fields A1, M1, and M13 have not been unlocked yet.

I finished(*) Gemcraft Labyrinth

So, for a very long time now, on various devices I have been playing this old Flash game called Gemcraft Labyrinth. First through Armor Games, then a sketchy program that had the swf and flash player embedded so I could play it offline, but now you can download the game

Minor Website and Personal Updates

Greetings all! 5 months into the year and this is my first post 😂 Exams were done, I passed all but one course, and I've been on summer break for about a month now. Much more time for working and learning fun stuff (like writing more blog posts!). We&

Advent Of Code 2022 Livestreams

Hi everyone! Last year, I did a few days of Advent of Code in Java (because that's what I was learning at the time). It was quite fun, so I am planning on trying again this year - in Python this time - and livestreaming it! A caveat

Status Update, November 2022

Hello again! Midterms and reading week are all over, so now it is less than a month until finals and Winter Break. I have 3 major assignments due by the end of this month alone and then another group one. 😅 On the roadmap -- if I procratinate enough, are a

Status Update, October 2022

Hey everyone! This is October's status update post (happy Autumn 🍂). Midterms for me are coming up soon, which is way sooner than I expected 😬. In terms of personal stuff I've been up to, reading is keeping me sane (almost to my goal of 150 books read

Status Update, September 2022

Hello everyone! There's not much to say in this one, so it'll be a bit shorter. As I'm writing this, it's my first full week of classes, and at the moment I am running laundry. As mentioned in the last post, I

Status Update, Sept 2, 2022

Hey everyone. I wasn't expecting to do a status update post so early, but here one is! So, earlier this week (Wednesday), I unexpectedly got a residence offer from New College (my college at U of T), which I accepted. They had originally sent an offer in June