Chain Reaction is a game I recreated during my senior year of highschool. Despite its ugly appearance, it has been my hardest project yet. I worked on this game for about 11 hours a day for 5 weeks. I plan to hopefully remake the site with better UI with some help of friends and to hopefully have a simpler implementation. In this post, I’ll talk about what I discovered while building, and the reflections I had....

Over this winter break, I’ve had a lot of time to actually think about the technologies I use. Because this amount of time, I thought it would be good to experiment with new editors, make things look nice, and explore new ideas. Editor History When I first started to code, I used mostly Pycharm as I was learning Python at the time. It was nice for the python code I was writing at the time, but if I was to expand my language domain, I couldn’t only use PyCharm....

Since the fall semester of my sophomore year is ending, I’ll share my thoughts on my classes. I got inspiration from the 2025 CMU discord server doing the same activity. Other blogs have also done this before and I’ll list them below. Fan Pu Wan Shem Lin Abigale Kim This semester I took 5 classes, 3 of them being technical classes. The course numbers were 15251, 15281, 15259, 70342, and 84389....

As the internet obtains petabytes and petabytes, software systems have to scale in order to handle the increased stress of data. People are also exptecting these systems to deliver output in a quick amount of time while also being accurate. On the side, many companies are expecting incoming software engineers to have the skills to be able to construct effective systems for their use case. We’ll look briefly on scaling with distributed Systems....