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Stranger Things 5 Bingo

Just want to quickly drop my bingo card before vol 2 release. I’ve been on Tumblr devouring all the theories after watching vol 1. 也在微博高强度冲浪。I’ll probably share more thoughts next year. I’m so thrilled! Merry Christmas 🎄 and Bylermas 💙💛

迷歩 Komachi · EN

Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 - a top notch adaptation

Disclaimer: All media is used under fair use for commentary. They belong to their respective owners. No infringement intended. I’m sure many anime fans are hyped for Jujutsu Kaisen season 3. I’m seriously impressed too, especially by the stylish taste of background artwork and the insane quality of battle scenes. There are some scenes that made me feel the director went too far. For example, the now-meme-ified Naoya aura farming scene is NOT even from the manga, LOL. Viral marketing stunt aside, the anime adaptation is doing a great job at elevating the visual storytelling and evoking stronger

迷歩 Komachi · EN

Recent life events and such

I'm going to babble a lot so bear with me. Not until few days ago, I started to feel the mysterious energy that only new year could bring. I've always been very slow at things, as if my senses are not in the same timeline with the physical progression of time and space. In Chinese we say “新年新气象” (≈ new year, new beginnings/fresh new look). And now 1/12 of a year has passed, I finally began to feel things are settling down. Random life updates: I created a plan for injury prevention exercises in between climbing days. The focus is on finger rehab, antagonist training, mobility and endurance. It

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The dead fin whale on Oregon Coast

On February 9, I drove to the Sunset Beach to see a dead fin whale. I've always been fascinated by whales, so this was a rare opportunity to get close to an actual whale (since I haven't learned diving). Being with such a magnificent creature makes you feel awe. As I finally have the time to write a post about it, I wanted to check out the latest news about this whale. Because I'm curious about what happen to it. Current Status: Unknown It took me quite a while to find anything that's not from 3 weeks ago—that's around the time when it was first discovered. People just seemed to, or perhaps ar

迷歩 Komachi · EN

三十路の色々

For those who think this post is in Japanese because of the title...I'm sorry. I'm going to write in Chinese. The title just pops into my head, and it fits. Life update: I'm no longer in between jobs ...which instigates my sudden desire to express. 其实已经步入三十岁有几多年了，但一直没有实感。曾经脑海里想象（or期待？）的三十岁是成熟的，社会化的，有掌控感的。等到自己物理意义上的活过三个十年，十几二十几岁的记忆和体验很自然地陪我一起迈进三字头，这种自我延续性模糊了对变化的感知。也许是还没有达到质变的节点吧。不过的确开始不自觉地喜欢回顾往事——“我上学的时候blah blah”，也开始经常背着手走路了（笑）。 突如其来的表达欲也是有诱因的。因为我找到工作了(应该)。还没入职，但已经在走流程了。有些感慨和忧伤：感慨自己终于摆脱找工作的泥沼了；忧伤自己即将失去自由身，以及需要暂时搬家了（long story…）。 这是我的第二份正式工作。此前一直拖延找工作的步调，想尽办法留在象牙塔里，直到无法再逃避下去。社会对「立派な大人」所附加的责任和期望

迷歩 Komachi · EN

Life is just a bowl of cherries

Haven't been posted for a while because I'm in a transition period. And I got overwhelmed by all the things that demand my attention. Ever since the start of my new job 1 , I've been experiencing quite a lot of brain fry. But it doesn't not all come from work, although work should take the majority of the blame. It's just that way too many things had happened in a short span of time. Pseudo-moving, apartment hunting, family reunion (+ drama), company outing (first time in my life), a professional workshop, rotting in the heat due to loss of power... And there were so many last minute actions.

迷歩 Komachi · EN

Living with humidity

⚠️Trigger warning: bugs I didn't know that so many things could go wrong when you live in a highly humid area. I probably shouldn't say I don't know, because I came from a town where it's highly humid—like, all the time. It has the worst kind of summer AND winter: not only is it usually at untolerable temperature, it's also humid, which amplifies how you feel in a very unpleasant way. I should've known how to deal with humidity, but that was too long ago, plus I was too young to care. Or my mom also didn't want me to care, as my primary mission should be "studying". (You might ask, how about m

迷歩 Komachi · EN

FP人迈出第一步（开博一周年啦）

迟到了一周的博客一周年纪念……很有FP人特色了。 更新频率很让我满意了，老实说，这个博客没有被我遗忘在墙角已经惊讶到我自己了。虽然大部分的post都是心血来潮，但有好几篇写得很认真。 最近的一大成就：我开始翻译同人文了。目前发布了两篇，一共4万字左右。谁能想到到了这个年纪，竟然实现了小时候想当汉化组的梦想。翻译，跟啃生肉的用脑程度完全不一样。越翻译越深感自己语言匮乏。一开始先拿了一篇很喜欢的小短文练手，断断续续翻了好几天。然后就挑战了一篇很喜欢的中篇，翻译成中文有2万余字。 试水后发现自己蛮享受这个过程的。开始渐渐把流失的中文给补回来了。中文语言表达实在过于匮乏，基本上时间都花在搜索近义词了。起初翻译的句子十分生硬，如同机翻，语序也像英文，读起来极不流畅。但不管怎样先翻译出来，然后再通过（几乎没有的）语感精修。（实在不懂的时候会问问AI，尤其是听都没听过的地道的slang。）有时候一个句子要改动十几遍……睡觉都在推敲词句。期间也在一直继续阅读小说，有时读着读着会突然遇见一个词，是之前某段翻译里想表达的意思，这时就会赶紧记下来。 从我的词语list上简单摘录一些： 愠怒 真诚、坦率 坏心眼 视线相对 执意 相册 怔住 都是些很常见的词，见到能认识，但需要用上的时候怎么也想不起来。 总共来说，我绝对花了超过40小时在翻译和修改上——这可等于正常打工人工作整整一周的时间。想到之前接过的一

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Vibe coding paradox

There's been a massive shift in what we used to call "vibe coding" just a few months ago. Back then, real developers dismissed it as a toy for non-technical people: something fun but not serious. Now I'm seeing engineers at all levels letting Claude Code and other AI tools handle the heavy lifting. Such an irony. Vibe coding has become genuinely useful for engineers who understand the underlying systems. We can move faster, prototype quicker, and automate the tedious stuff while still knowing

Blog by Sergey Kaplich · EN

Why the "For You" tab sucks

I ran an experiment last week. For a few days, I forced myself to only check X's "For You" tab instead of my curated "Following" feed. I wanted to understand what everyone's talking about when they complain about algorithmic timelines. The result? I literally felt my brain rotting in real-time. The Attention Economy's Dirty Secret Here's what nobody tells you about algorithmic feeds: they're not designed to inform you. They're designed to keep you scrolling. Every post that shows up in "Fo

Blog by Sergey Kaplich · EN

New blog

I know how people say that the tool doesn’t matter. And it is actually true, but I noticed that when I get stuck with something, actually changing the tool I am using helps me a lot. It gives me another perspective or helps me to see something that I haven’t seen before. That’s why I always spend time looking for new tools or optimizing something that I am using now And the same thing happened with my blogging journey. I haven’t posted anything here for a long time. And I decided to do somethin

Blog by Sergey Kaplich · EN

Page Roulette

I had some free time over Memorial Day, so I finally built something I’d been thinking about for a while. I decided to let AI redesign my personal page — and refresh it every day. That’s how Page Roulette was born. I created a few templates, picked color palettes and fonts I like, and locked in the text and photos that should never change. Then every night at 12am EST, a GitHub Action runs, sends my design notes to the OpenAI API, and comes back with instructions for a new version of the site.

Blog by Sergey Kaplich · EN

Draw me a picture

A few years ago, a friend of mine, Arthur — developer and a proud boat captain — told me about an idea he had: connect a mini computer to a printer on his boat and ask people to send him emails. If someone sent one, it would print right there on board. I always thought it was a really great idea. I’m not sure if he ever built it, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it. So I built my own version. I dug out my old Raspberry Pi — the one my friend Daniel gave me years ago when I was just learning

Blog by Sergey Kaplich · EN

I start to like AI art

I've always had this thing for visuals. I studied art and architecture, spent years learning to see the world through composition, proportion, light. I even wear Figma cap! That instinct to create never really left, it just ran out of room somewhere between deadlines and everything else life piles on. Honestly, for a long time I thought AI image tools were just a cute toy. Fun to poke at for five minutes, nothing serious. And I get why people feel that way: you can spot lazy AI slop from a mil

Blog by Sergey Kaplich · EN

I built the budgeting app I always wanted

When I started my professional career, my financial life was not perfect. I was not making much money, and because of that, I had a pretty flawed idea about budgeting. My thinking was simple: if there is not much money, what is there to budget? Looking back, that was completely wrong. Budgeting is not about how much you make. It is about knowing what you actually have. That realization took years to arrive. But when it did, it changed how I thought about money entirely. One night I realized

Blog by Sergey Kaplich · EN

C'mon Apple, you can do better than this

Building my first iOS app, I figured the hard part would be the code. Turns out the hard part was Apple's paperwork. Total time from paying for the dev program to my app actually being live: three weeks. And I actually paied for that → $99/year, plus 30% of every sale. First hurdle: the tax form. There's a field for your legal name, pulled straight from your Apple account, and you can't edit it. Problem: my account didn't have my legal name on it. So the form just... wouldn't let me finish.

Blog by Sergey Kaplich · EN

Calculating Service Area, Part 3: Demographics

My Musings · EN

Calculating Service Area, Part 4: Next Steps

My Musings · EN

Stop Spacing, Part 1

My Musings · EN

Visualizing System-wide Headway

My Musings · EN

Why I'm a Luddite, kind-of (Part 2)

My Musings · EN

ICRA 2026

My experience and learnings from attending the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Vienna

Jay Ranpariya · EN

Sleep

Personal beliefs and habits for protecting sleep: wind-down routines, light exposure, naps, plus notes on the circadian biology behind them.

Jay Ranpariya · EN

Recon

A working reference for bug bounty recon: horizontal and vertical asset correlation, subdomain enumeration, OSINT tooling, and early exploitation wins.

Jay Ranpariya · EN