Behind The Scenes: From GoodNotes User to Developer Intern

Over the years, GoodNotes has grown to become one of the most loved digital note-taking apps in the world, and a lot of these happy users are students. There is nothing we love more than our users, and we wouldn’t have been where we are today without you. When…

The Ballroom Scene

Ballroom.pptx Disclaimer: All personal observation. This article contains NSFW words. This is me at a ballroom last July. It was the after party of the queer graduation ceremony held by a bunch of NGOs, and the way queer people organise a party is to do a "ball" in a…

Running down the Fire Exit

We, the outrages and dressed-to-kill queers, were flighting back the deeply-rooted heterosexual hegemony and spreading the idea of gender inclusion by being seen - yet the best we do now is fleeing on the stairs.…

Man Path, Weed Sea

In 1989, a new plant was discovered on the M50 highway in Worcester, England. It's Cochlearia Danica, also known as Danish scurvygrass, a tiny weed in the family Brassicaceae, described by Linnaeus more than 200 years ago…

A Shallow Dive into Private-Key Encryptions

We have the illusion that, as long as the key exchange was done securely, Private-Key, also known as Symmetric Cryptography, is solidly safe; if we ever introduce Public-Key or Asymmetric Cryptography to exchange private keys, then we are unbreakable.…

With or Without Borders in Science

> This is a reflective article targeting the following comment made by Sivin, serving as the term paper for In Dialogue with Nature. > “So long as there is variation of such magnitude in the balance between the cognitive, practical, normative, and social dimensions of science, such words as “international” and “universal”…