The past 2 weeks was consumed by tons of distractions, with no opportunity to\nget bored. I binge-watched Over Run Over on YouTube, and once that was done,\nbinge-watched Trauma Code on Netflix. Then I started playing Half Sword. I have\nsunk into a new low when it comes to boredom by actually playing video games. I\nsay every day “tomorrow I’ll get it together”, and I don’t \ud83d\ude2d1<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>"},{"title":"2025-01-18 & 2025-01-19 (Weekend)","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/18-19\/","pubDate":"Mon, 20 Jan 2025 02:18:44 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/18-19\/","description":" Been sleeping too much on weekends recently. I planned on going out to downtown\non Saturday but woke up at 4:30 pm. I just did flashcards, watched some YouTube,\nand went back to sleep for 12 hours again.<\/p>\n Today I did go out tubing and eat out with the Gen Z gang.<\/p>\n This weekend was mostly just watching the\ninteractions between American and Chinese people on \u5c0f\u7ea2\u4e66 (Rednote)<\/a>.<\/p>"},{"title":"2025-01-16","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/16\/","pubDate":"Sat, 18 Jan 2025 02:19:01 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/16\/","description":" Finally got unblocked at a task at work. Doesn’t mean I’m done though.<\/p>\n I went to Jherzey’s by walking just like the previous days, but didn’t know\nthere was a snows squall. That made the walk pretty interesting. I had to go\nback home and actually bundle up to cover my face.<\/p>\n After shovelling, I spent 3 hours with Devin to solve a false LSP error on some\nembedded C toolchain. We failed to actually get rid of it, but it was a\ncharacter-building experience.<\/p>"},{"title":"2025-01-15","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/15\/","pubDate":"Thu, 16 Jan 2025 01:28:03 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/15\/","description":" Been consistently waking up at 9am which is good in a way because I’m being\nconsistent, but bad in a way because it’s so late. My alarm clocks are failing\nme for some reason.<\/p>\n I had to slowly clear out the 239 cards to review throughout the day, and now I\nhave 244 cards for tomorrow. It’s really going to be a grind this week but I\nonly have 425 new cards out of 1210.<\/p>"},{"title":"2025-01-14","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/14\/","pubDate":"Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:53:31 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/14\/","description":" Got up at 9am again today. No worries though, since the rest of my day wasn’t\nwasted.<\/p>\n I finally followed my scheduled tasks, limiting my Anki review to only 1 hour\ntoday. That meant fewer new cards today, but at least I didn’t waste any more\ntime with it and lightened up my review load to only 239 cards for tomorrow.<\/p>\n I also got the chance to get some physical activity:<\/p>"},{"title":"2025-01-11 & 12 (Weekend)","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/11-12\/","pubDate":"Tue, 14 Jan 2025 01:16:52 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/11-12\/","description":" Gonna have to combine these two because I forgot what I did already aside from\nthe times I went out \ud83d\ude2d.<\/p>\n I slept for half the day for both days and just planned our trip.<\/p>\n Saturday: Unlimited K-BBQ at Ginseng with Jherzey and Ate Mup. I could’ve eaten\na lot more but tried to hold back.<\/p>\n Sunday: Jerusalem Shawarma and Krispy Kreme with\nYahya and Kyle<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lots of cramming on flashcards as well, but not as much as today (Monday).<\/p>"},{"title":"TIL: Beans Etymology","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/til\/beans\/","pubDate":"Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:50:18 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/til\/beans\/","description":" Being a Tagalog speaker and a language learner, I’ve always been interested in\netymology of Tagalog words. The obvious influences are Spanish and English, but\nthere’s also a lot from Hokkien and Malay.<\/p>\n Today I’m going to list out some words that I find interesting:<\/p>\n Linggo<\/em> (Sunday; week) - All the days in Tagalog are directly borrowed from\nSpanish one to one, except for Sunday (domingo<\/em>). Apparently it could be from\nMalay minggu<\/em><\/a> which came from\nPortuguese domingo<\/em><\/a>. Of\ncourse, both of those could be traced to Latin, and Portuguese and Spanish are\npretty close to each other. I just find it interesting that we get to the same\nword in a pretty roundabout way.<\/p>"},{"title":"2025-01-10","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/10\/","pubDate":"Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:39:54 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/10\/","description":" I actually got up at 6 and felt a lot more motivated today. The fact that I was\nprobably around only 70% productivity the day before meant that I had to go ham\ntoday. I finally got around starting my daily\/weekly planner (and actually\nfollowing it).<\/p>\n Also the fact that I also got approved for my PH vacation gave me a lot more\nmotivation.<\/p>\n Walked to Jherzey’s place while it was raining and super slippery outside. I\nactually slipped and landed on my butt.<\/p>"},{"title":"2025-01-09","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/09\/","pubDate":"Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:36:26 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/09\/","description":" This was the day that I got up at 6 but stayed in bed until 9 \ud83d\ude2d so much for\nwaking up early.<\/p>\n I ate a small clove of garlic in the morning and it was pretty spicy. Tried\neating a bigger one and it gave me a crazy heartburn.<\/p>\n Had a CitySync discussion with Michael before he leaves for Vietnam.<\/p>\n I also tried out Reaper but didn’t get too far. This was mostly why I didn’t get\nto journal for this day, but I also had to deal with a super annoying bug at\nwork way past work hours.<\/p>"},{"title":"2025-01-08","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/08\/","pubDate":"Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:02:58 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/08\/","description":" Woke up early today and did cardio. Almost puked but the cold shower afterwards\nhit different.<\/p>\n Also super locked in at work.<\/p>\n Had K-BBQ at home for dinner with pork belly and organ meats.<\/p>\n I asked Jherzey to help me skin the cat and it definitely scared her. I did more\nafter she left but my right shoulder started hurting. I’m gonna have to take it\neasy on the shoulder exercises.<\/p>"},{"title":"2025-01-07","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/07\/","pubDate":"Tue, 07 Jan 2025 23:32:24 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/07\/","description":" Pretty productive day!<\/p>\n Found a beat for focusing at work<\/a> so I don’t have to sit\nin silence anymore.<\/p>\n I also tried out some online shopping haul with Jherzey after work before eating\nmomos<\/a>.<\/p>\n Just now, I set up Anki with\nCantonese flashcards<\/a>. I picked one\nwithout Chinese characters so I actually have to associate sounds to meaning.<\/p>\n I’ve also been consistently waking up at 7 which means that I can finally get to\nsleep early (which is why I’m actually able to write before midnight now).<\/p>"},{"title":"Background music while working","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/dev-log\/music\/","pubDate":"Tue, 07 Jan 2025 23:19:11 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/dev-log\/music\/","description":" Finally found some appropriate background music for when I’m working.<\/p>\n My peers used to always ask me what I listen to while working on my computer,\nand they’re always shocked to find out that I work in silence. I used to\nunironically listen to\nlofi hip hop mix \ud83d\udcda beats to relax\/study to<\/a>\nbut I get too sleepy. When I listen to music I actually like listening to, I get\ntoo distracted.<\/p>"},{"title":"2025-01-04","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/04\/","pubDate":"Sun, 05 Jan 2025 02:14:44 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/04\/","description":" Slept pretty much until the afternoon and then worked on\nCitySync<\/a> stuff.<\/p>\n It’s already Sunday so I basically skipped 2 days of journalling. I definitely\nneed to streamline this process. I could try using Obsidian for easier\njournalling and then automate the publishing process.<\/p>"},{"title":"2025-01-03","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/03\/","pubDate":"Sun, 05 Jan 2025 02:02:36 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/03\/","description":" Hung out with the Gen Z gang today (actually millennials).<\/p>\n Walked around downtown at -20\u00b0C which was fun.<\/p>\n Went hotpot and Hanjan which basically broke\nresolutions 1 & 3<\/a> but it’s all good.<\/p>"},{"title":"2025-01-02","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/02\/","pubDate":"Fri, 03 Jan 2025 01:01:29 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025\/01\/02\/","description":" I got my passport today so I am now legally allowed to leave the country \ud83d\ude0c<\/p>\n I think I should start scheduling my off-work hours because I’m bad at time\nmanagement and get distracted easily. It’s already past midnight that I’m\nwriting on the journal.<\/p>\n EDIT:<\/p>\n I forgot to add why I wanted to do this in the first place. I found an old\nnotebook of mine from 5+ years ago that had this entry:<\/p>"},{"title":"2025 Resolutions","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025-resolutions\/","pubDate":"Wed, 01 Jan 2025 11:50:00 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/2025-resolutions\/","description":" Some goals specific to my vacation this March, but also probably good to keep up\nfor the rest of the year.<\/p>\n The most generic resolutions you’ll find.<\/p>"},{"title":"My Worst Semester so Far","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/my-worst-semester-so-far\/","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:42:26 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/my-worst-semester-so-far\/","description":" Fall 2023 was my first semester coming back after being out of school for 16\nmonths (I tried taking CHINA 101 in Fall 2022 but dropped it after a week).<\/p>\n Because of that, I have forgotten how to study. Both midterms and finals went\npretty horribly. It’s not even that I don’t care about grades anymore, and I\ndefinitely could have done better if I just did the practice exams thoughtfully.<\/p>"},{"title":"My domain expired \ud83d\ude2d","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/expired-domain\/","pubDate":"Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/expired-domain\/","description":" I hope my A couple of months ago, I help a friend set up a website for a business. Today,\nI had another talk with a friend about building a portfolio website and he\nasked me for a few resources. I couldn’t find a comprehensive one that outlines\nall the required steps so I’ll try my best.<\/p>\n From ChatGPT:<\/p>\n I’ve always kind of known about the I deleted all 4 of my NPM packages today. It has been over a year since I’ve\nlast updated them, and I didn’t want to add any more clutter to the system.<\/p>\n I’ve always thought that having published open source code meant something, but\nthen I realized that it doesn’t matter if it’s not useful.<\/p>\n Learning how to package libraries and applications was a good experience,\nthough, and I would probably publish stuff IF\/WHEN I have actually solved a\nneed. Here are the reasons why I deleted each of them.<\/p>"},{"title":"Happy New Year!","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/pou\/","pubDate":"Sat, 31 Dec 2022 21:04:23 -0700","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/pou\/","description":" You might have to zoom in a little bit to see these bad boys. They sing a\njust-intonated major pentatonic scale from a low fifth to a high sixth. Just\nenough notes to play Auld Lang Syne. Click\/tap on a Pou to play a note1<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n Keyboard controls: z,x,a,s,d,q,w for the notes, space for confetti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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namesake<\/del>1<\/a><\/sup> pianist Charles\nAncheta<\/a> claims it back eventually.\n‘charlesancheta.com’ used to redirect to his Facebook page before I registered\nthe domain as mine.<\/p>"},{"title":"Building a Static Website - Part 1: Introduction","link":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/static-website-setup\/part-1\/","pubDate":"Thu, 08 Jun 2023 23:04:45 -0600","author":"cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)","guid":"https:\/\/charles.thyck.top\/post\/static-website-setup\/part-1\/","description":"What is a static website?<\/h2>\n
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