A while back, I noticed that a lot of the memes sent in the #memes channel were from Reddit, specifically r/ProgrammerHumor. Since I was bored, I wanted to make a bot that takes the top posts from that subreddit and post them in the Discord channel.
Whenever I want to add content to my website, I have to do a few things:
Ah yes, the obligatory monthly post. Even though my posting schedule is inconsistent, I’m never gonna give it up… just like how Rick Astley’s never gonna give you up.
Rickrolling is one of my favorite internet trolls because of its simplicity and success rate. People get “rick rolled” when “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley is played unexpectedly, whether it’s through a disguised link or an unrelated video that cuts to the song.
I followed this tutorial by Polyfjord to create the simulation. It’s pretty straight forward and easy to follow, and I changed a few of the values to be better for my video. The main thing I modified was the pendulum frequency such that a full cycle for all ten pendulums was under a minute.
The subreddit r/TheyDidTheMath has a bunch of useless math calculations for real world “applications.” It’s quite similar to Fermi Questions, my favorite Science Olympiad event. Last night, I saw an xkcd that made me want to check it’s math.
Wow, no blog post in a week? What’s been going on? Well, not a lot. But also quite a bit. This is going to be less of a “normal blog post” and more of a “here’s a random list of things I did.” I’m also going to be trying out the Table of Contents, which should appear to the right above the menu.
With the release of Valorant, more people and more of my friends are playing the game. I wanted to create a mini Cypher “guide” that showcases all of the spots that I regularly use. Of course, there are more spots than shown in the video, but the video is for the practical spots.
After I published my previous blog post, I sent it to my friend. He responded by sending me his first blog post, which was similar to my first. In his post, he outlined the process of setting up his website with Hexo and Netlify, which was possible because it was a static site.
I’ve always wanted to start a blog and just write about things that I want to write about. However, the website builder that I was previously using (Adobe Portfolio) had nothing for blogs, so it never happened. Last night (technically this morning), I was thinking of some cool stuff that I could write about, and I decided that I would create one with WordPress. I woke up, instantly got on my computer, and started making this.