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June 11, 2026

Long overdue

Something on the back burner for almost a decade.

Alas, I've always wanted to build this website. With recent technology advancements, I can do that leisurely whilst chit chatting with my friends (oh, the joys of tech). And by "always", I meant for the last 8 years.

In 2018, I was a college student and enrolled in the Apple Developer Academy program, and back then I managed to snag a scholarship to visit San José for that year's WWDC. A very pleasant surprise, that was, as I'd never left my home country before.

one of the best photos I'll ever take
San José State University campus

What got me in was a graph algorithm visualizer with Dijsktra's and Kruskal's built-in. Over the years I found that securing the trip with the things I learned in my favorite class is something that I'll always cherish.

a sideways view of the steve jobs theater
We even got a tour of the Steve Jobs Theater

In those days, my scholar colleagues from the program figured the event would be a great chance for networking and whatnot. One student figured they should do something, and when we saw what that was, well, everyone followed suit: business cards.

a photo of the business card my sister designed for me
I swear I'll find a picture of this

My lovely sister designed a beaut of a card for me. I promptly had about a hundred of them printed and headed off overseas. In the end, I hardly managed to hand them out (which wasn't a surprise at all, to be honest), but their design had me struck.

Ever since then I knew what this website had to look like.