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This is a retrospective and photo gallery post.
It's already late February now, and whether you count from New Year's Day or Lunar New Year, this post is way too late, isn't it (ﾟДﾟ*)ﾉ
Fortunately, the Lantern Festival is still around, so I can at least barely claim some connection (≧∇≦)ﾉ
Q3 &Q4 of 2023
These two quarters were mostly spent busy with the lab's recruitment work—setting up booths, giving info sessions, meet-and-greets, and stuff like that. My school coursework schedule was also pretty busy...
In October I started the Clash Hub project, originally intending it to be an upgraded version of ext-clash-modifier. Later, the whole Clash family of repos got deleted en masse, and Clash Hub ended up abandoned.
In November I roughly put together the lab's official website (which is really just a blog XD). Because I needed to separate content from code, md-indexer came out of it. Used with GitHub Pages, it can generate a static JSON API from a content repository and upload it to GitHub Pages.
In early December I finished kruskal-viewer as my data structures course project—namely, a visualization of Kruskal's minimum spanning tree algorithm. I uploaded it to GitHub Pages, so you can play with it online here~
In late December, the various subjects also started organizing final exams one after another, so I was busy cramming for review (
January & February
In January I found time to go home (yay), and found the planted tank in a state too awful to look at (nay).
I put a huge amount of effort into cleaning it up, and finally realized that without CO2, aquatic plants are really hard to grow well, so I used a CO2 fire extinguisher as the carbon source:
The effect was immediate (((ﾟДﾟ;))). It feels like I'd been messing around blindly for a year, and now I'm finally back on track (
I DIYed a little device that regularly drips algaecide into the tank using an eWeLink control board and a peristaltic pump, to try tech-based algae control.
In February, I moved the porcelain vat from the yard back home over here and set up a traditional-style tank:
The rest of the time I was writing a Whisper wrapper app similar to chidiwilliams/buzz, because Buzz doesn't support GPU inference and is super slow _(:3 」∠ )_. I also wanted to add some subtitle timing and translation features to make it easier to fansub ASMR (flee
Photo Gallery
This was actually taken in August 2023, but I'd overlooked it before; the raw file had been sitting on my hard drive without any color grading. Recently, while browsing Lightroom, I realized, "Hey, this one's not bad too," so I did some color grading~
A very ordinary big cluster of blooming cosmos (doubtful), Unsplash
White houses that look stacked in layers—if only the walls were a little cleaner, Unsplash
This is a color grading experiment photo, with a glow effect added to the highlights. Can you feel the clear, bright reflection of the sun?
A kid watching fireworks—probably my favorite of the photos I took during the New Year holiday~
Finally
In a few days I'll have to go back to work again (sad)
Wishing everyone Happy New Year Happy Lantern Festival~