2026 August

• Aug 20 - Doing Personal Research

  Tags: Research

  Finding the motivation to learn new things or do research is often one of the toughest parts of the process, and I’ve struggled with it many times over. Especially as I’ve been doing more and more research-level mathematics, this has become a larger issue than ever before, and so I’ve been exploring different ways of overcoming it.

2026 March

• Mar 24 - Asciidoc, Clojure, and a New Website

  Tags: Programming

  Making a new website is something I’ve always dreaded. All the little details of web development have always made me grind my teeth and I always end up abandoning the project. So this time I did something different: no Node, minimal JavaScript, and learn as many new tools as I can. Well, while looking through some options I stumbled upon Cryogen, a tool that generates static sites using templates written in pure HTML and CSS. Additionally, Cryogen is written in Clojure, a language that I’ve absolutely never thought about before. On top of this, it offered me another option: instead of writing my pages in Markdown, I could use AsciiDoc, yet another brand new tool! Safe to say, I was excited to learn.