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Sekiro Review

Sekiro is arguably the hardest game of all time, and I haven’t even played any of the FromSoftware games before. I did play Jedi: Fallen Order, which is soulslike, and I really love the combat, so after beating it, I finally bought Sekiro to experience the ultimate sword fight.

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Yahoo DevOps Internship Review

In the summer of 2022, which is also the last summer vacation in my college life, I worked at Yahoo as a DevOps intern for 8 weeks in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Go: Slice of Values vs. Slice of Pointers

Have you ever wonder when to use *[]struct and when to use []*struct when developing in Go? Look no further! I’ll explain everything you need to know about this topic in this post.

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My Judo Journey

The Start

In my sophomore year, I took the Judo course because the names of the waza (techniques) sounded really badass, like 大外割 (Osoto Gari), 小內割 (Kouchi Gari) etc.

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Musical Artists - Hidden Gems

Artists with less than 500k monthly listeners on Spotify yet have I scrobbled for hundreds or even thousands of times.

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Why you need to write unit tests

Before I started my 3rd internship, I have no idea what unit test is, and why is it relevant. But after I’m forced to write unit tests for half a year, I realize how important it is. Apart from making sure your functions do exactly what they’re intended to do, unit tests also provide the following benefits:

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The Left Hand of Darkness Review

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

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My Taekwondo Black Belt Journey

As a Wuxia novel fan and someone who is generally good at sports, I’ve always wanted to try out Taekwondo. However, due to the myth (or fact? idk) that stretching your legs too much as a kid will damage the growth in terms of height, my mom never let me learn it.

When I first got to college, since my body growth had already become stagnant, I went to a training of the Taekwondo club in my school to get a taste of it, and boy was I impressed. The staggering physique of the black belters hitting a pad at high speed with their foot and the loud and crisp sound accompanying it is just so damn shocking, and I immediately fell in love with it.

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Review: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

An anthology from Ken Liu, a Hugo award winner as both a writer and a translator. His first anthology, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has some interesting stories, and for some reason the library in my University has the English version of this book, plus short stories are pretty easy to read even for non-native speakers. so I just picked it up.

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The Obelisk Gate (Broken Earth 2) Review

Author: N. K. Jemisin

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