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Skiing in the Scottish Highlands

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After a huge anticipation, I finally managed to complete my fourth day of skiing alone in Cairngorm National Park.

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A Day in Edinburgh

▲ a random Sakura (?) on the streets

Edinburgh is a very beautiful city. It feels more open and big than Glasgow, though it may not be. The roads are bigger, and there are more things to see. Not saying it’s “better” than Glasgow, but overall it just feels more like a big city.

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Glasgow Review

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▲ University of Glasgow

The biggest city in Scotland.

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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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