Now

This is my now page. A now page is a detailed answer to the question “what have you been up to lately?”

Whereabouts

I’m studying at ucsb until Spring 2026, when I will spend 2 quarters as a visiting student at Tsinghua University in Beijing!

Done and still doing

• Freshman year is over!

Future

• I’m still thinking of starting a project called “How posix can you get in 31 days?” where I try to write as much of a posix compliant operating system as possible, from scratch, with a 1 month time limit. Probably using Rust or Zig. I’m not sure how much time I’ll have for this during the summer, though.

Fun

• Lately I’ve been playing/replaying Disco Elysium.
• In lieu of Monster Hunter Wilds (which is impossible to run without a supercomputer), I’ve been playing Monster Hunter World and Iceborne instead.

Prose

Some stuff I’ve been reading lately.

Nonfiction

• Lectures on the Hyperreals — an introduction to nonstandard analysis
• Progress and Poverty — Henry George’s classic

Fiction

• There is No Antimemetics Division (also available as a tale on the SCP wiki)
• Coding Machines — a story based on the Ken Thompson Hack