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%% title = "a curated feed of updates to the house"
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feed = "new"
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+ hello!
if you've been wondering what I've been up to, you've come to the right place.
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- posts are sorted from newest to oldest.
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- you can keep track of which posts you've read by looking at the color of the links.
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- there is [an Atom feed](/feed/new.atom) in case you want to add riki's house to your feed reader.
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- hint: unlike this page (for now), the Atom feed exposes _categories_ you can feed to your reader to filter out posts you don't want to see.
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- also, the Atom feed does not contain post content.
this is due to the house being {-cybernetically enhanced-} better with all my artisanal touches and CSS!
if you want to read any of the posts, follow the links.
it's like that by design.
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- ### [The Flashbulb - Flacks / aBliss][page:music/flacks]
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- my most beautiful musical finding this month.
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- ### [idea: freeing the hobby corners][page:design/freehouse]
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- exploring the idea of aggregating pages via tags, rather than manually curating and structuring them out.
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- ### [nickname change!][page:philosophy/riki]
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- this year, I'm changing my nickname from _liquidex_ to *riki*!
so don't be surprised to see a blog you don't recognise in your feed reader, lol.
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- this is what _liquidex's treehouse_ turned into!
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- ### [reflections on Minecraft][page:games/minecraft-zen]
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- this holiday season, my friend set up a Minecraft server and invited a bunch of folks to have some good ol' block game fun!
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- this is a retrospect on that playthrough.
I was playing in a somewhat unusual way for me, learned lots of new lessons, had lots of reflections along the way...
so this is a post that summarises most of it.
Builds Included.
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- now that the holidays are over, and I'm out of block game steam, I'll need to move onto something else.
who knows what that might be?
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- ### [design for the free soul][page:design/for-the-free-soul]
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- a little note on how constrains and guard rails can make you feel more "_claustrophobic._"
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- ### [my weird stim: writing with light streaks][page:philosophy/light-streaks]
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- I had a conversation with a friend where I was saying how spacey I get sometimes, and this weird little stim of mine came up.
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- I wonder if anyone else has ever experienced something similar.
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- ### [animations & perception of sluggishness][page:design/animations]
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- I got a little angry at Windows at work today, because I wanted to close a window via the right-click menu on the taskbar, and ended up clicking during the _tiny_ time window where the animation is playing and your clicks are ignored.
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- so I disabled animations in the entire system, and _wow_ is Windows hella snappy with animations disabled!
and that got me thinking: maybe all the crazy people saying "you should disable animations everywhere because they waste your time" weren't so crazy after all :thinking:
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- but I'm fine with animations on my Google Pixel as well as my GNOME desktop, so what gives?
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- this post aims to explore that.
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- ### [touch panels][page:design/touch-panels]
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- a few examples of bad touch panels on various kitchen appliances (and also, my headphones.)
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- designers, please stop shoving touch panels into everything.
% tags = ["programming", "philosophy"]
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- ### [Advent of Code feels][page:programming/blog/aoc]
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- I tried time and time again, but can never get into Advent of Code.
so here's me overthinking why that's the case.
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tags = ["programming", "treehouse"]
- ### [composable virtual file systems][page:programming/blog/vfs]
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- I recently rebuilt the treehouse to use a virtual file system for its source and target directories.
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- this is an exploration of how I built my abstraction, how it works, and what I learned from it.
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- ### [on responsibility & conformity][page:philosophy/responsibility]
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- or, how we cannot do silly things because of herd mentality
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- ### [Aphex Twin - Blue Calx][page:music/reviews/aphex-twin/blue-calx]
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- have you listened to [Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edition)](https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/selected-ambient-works-volume-ii-expanded-edition)? (that is a mouthful)
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- it was my first experience listening to SAW2, and boy.
it's the best Factorio soundtrack :3
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- not really related to the post, but just sayin'.
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- ### [furry! ---w---][page:philosophy/furry]
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- I'm an adorable little cat boy. purrow! _snuggle snuggle_
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- a lesson in Shock Therapy & Getting Over It {-with Bennett Foddy-}
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- ### [fear of the unknown][page:philosophy/fear-of-the-unknown]
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- aka how you will never be able to live in peace
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tags = ["programming", "c", "cxx"]
- ### [prefix matches with C strings][page:programming/blog/cstring-starts-with]
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- a clever trick with C strings: did you know you can match a prefix just by chaining indexing with `&&`?
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- ### [on nicknames][page:philosophy/nicknames]
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- do you use your real name online? why (not)?
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- I know I don't.
so here's a little shower thought regarding _why_ that is.
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- ### ["I build things"][page:philosophy/i-build-things]
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- riki yells at cloud.
an insight as to how I believe life ought to be colorful, and how just saying "I build _things_" is gray and empty.
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tags = ["music"]
- ### [the curious case of Amon Tobin's Creatures][page:music/creatures]
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- a weird anomaly I noticed while listening to some breaks
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tags = ["music"]
- ### [I Don't Love Me Anymore][page:music/reviews/opn/i-dont-love-me-anymore]
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- I was listening to Oneohtrix Point Never's _Magic Oneohtrix Point Never_, and had some retrospective thoughts about the vocals in this song.
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- it's also a nice opportunity to say that I've refreshed the music section a bit!
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tags = ["programming", "treehouse"]
- ### [not quite buildless][page:programming/blog/buildsome]
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- I like lean websites. did you know that?
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- I also really like lean websites that are simple in construction and deployment. did you know the treehouse is a website like that?
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- so I've decided to write up a few anecdotes and other cool stories about the treehouse's inner workings.
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- also, it's (way past) its one year anniversary! hooray!
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tags = ["music", "programming"]
- ### [the ListenBrainz data set][page:music/brainz]
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- I decided to write up some ideas on what sort of cool data analysis I could do on my [ListenBrainz data set][def:social/listenbrainz].
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- I haven't done any of it yet, but I thought it'd be cool to share my ideas anyways!
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tags = ["programming", "plt", "haku"]
- ### [haku - writing a little programming language for fun][page:programming/blog/haku]
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- I was bored over a weekend, so I decided to write the tiniest programming language I could imagine.
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- it came out looking pretty Lispy, and I'm glad about that!
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- I learned a ton about Lisps in the process of researching it.
even though it didn't end up having macros...
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tags = ["programming", "javascript", "plt"]
- ### [JavaScript is not as bad as people make it out to be][page:programming/languages/javascript]
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- sometimes people call me crazy for saying that bashing JavaScript is senseless and that it's not as bad of a language as people make it out to be.
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- so I decided to collect my thoughts into a nice little page I can link easily.
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- ### [in wisdom you become old][page:philosophy/in-wisdom-you-become-old]
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tags = ["programming", "cxx"]
- ### [freeing C memory automatically using `std::unique_ptr` and `std::shared_ptr`][page:programming/languages/cxx/shared-unique-ptr-deleter]
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- a friend of mine asked if it makes sense to define your own wrapper class for `SDL_Window` the way [Lazy Foo](https://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/10_color_keying/index.php) does it.
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- I told him there's no reason to do that in modern C++, because `std::unique_ptr` can do everything for you anyways.
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- on another note, I did read a blog post about this once somewhere, but couldn't be bothered to find it. so there you go! I made a post about this too.
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tags = ["meow"]
- ### [about me (version 2)][page:about]
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- it's updatin' time! I took some time to clean up old pages and update my _about me_.\
over time I've been learning how to write content on the treehouse effectively, and the new about me reflects that.
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- [version 1][page:about/v1]
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tags = ["programming", "c", "cxx", "plt"]
- ### [what's up with `*x` not always meaning the same thing in different contexts?][page:programming/blog/lvalues]
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- I recently got a question from my someone telling me they don't understand why `*x` does not read from the pointer `x` when on the left-hand side of an assignment.
and that made me think, _why_ is that the case?
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tags = ["programming", "philosophy"]
- ### [systems are just a bunch of code][page:programming/blog/systems]
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- I've been thinking recently how cool it is to be able to single-step into Unreal Engine's source code and edit it while you're working with it, and how uncool it is that I can't do the same thing easily in the Rust world.
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- after all, aren't we just dealing with a bunch of code running on the computer? why not let me poke at it?
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- bonus: [dismantling Unreal Engine's `GENERATED_BODY`][page:programming/technologies/unreal-engine/generated-body]
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tags = ["programming", "plt"]
- ### [OR-types][page:programming/blog/or-types]
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- last night I couldn't sleep because of type theory. in the process of trying to write down my thoughts, I ended up discovering a class of types which, to my knowledge, no language implements.
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tags = ["programming", "plt", "lua"]
- ### [programming languages: Lua][page:programming/languages/lua]
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- I really like Lua, did you know that? but I get kind of tired of explaining why a thousand times to people who don't know the language, so here's a page with my thoughts!
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- ### [just shut up sometimes][page:philosophy/shut-up]
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tags = ["design"]
- ### [design: sidebars][page:design/sidebars]
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- sidebars! also known as, _"enjoying the main content? how about I distract you from it so that you can't focus!"_
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- seriously though. I don't like them.
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tags = ["design"]
- ### [riki's treehouse: design][page:design]
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- I started a branch on user interface and user experience design, because I was working with mintty at work and had some thoughts about it.
"why does mintty always feel so _out of place_ compared to `cmd.exe`?"
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- I also wrote a post summarising my thoughts: [_on digital textures_][page:design/digital-textures]
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tags = ["programming", "graphics", "javascript"]
- ### [tairu - an interactive exploration of 2D autotiling techniques][page:programming/blog/tairu]
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- ever wondered how Terraria renders its worlds? or how editors like Tiled manage to make painting tiles so easy?
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- this post explores basically just that.
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- ### [hedonic treadmill][page:philosophy/hedonic-treadmill]
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- ### [C++: access modifiers as labels (`private:`, `protected:`, and `public:`)][page:programming/languages/cxx/access-modifiers-as-labels]
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- ### [Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What Is Effortless][page:music/reviews/telefon-tel-aviv/map-of-what-is-effortless]
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- ### [Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool][page:music/reviews/radiohead/a-moon-shaped-pool]
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- ### [Aphex Twin - Syro][page:music/reviews/aphex-twin/syro]
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- ### [Radiohead - OK Computer][page:music/reviews/radiohead/ok-computer]
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