Writing

2025-10-11

Quantifying Resource and Point Values in Age of Innovation

This article attempts to convert the different resources in Age of Innovation onto a common scale and uses a cross-round iterative model to compare their practical value during a game.

Board Games Troyes

2024-07-01

Quantifying Resource and Point Values in Troyes

In Troyes, players' actions depend on random die values. The mechanism for buying other players' dice turns what would have been highly random individual output into a shared public supply, balancing randomness and strategy in a novel way.

Board Games Gaia Project

2024-04-23

Quantifying Resource and Point Values in Gaia Project

This article develops an approximate way to quantify the different resources in Gaia Project as value, providing a basic macroscopic reference for planning a player's development.

Swimming

2023-07-23

Understanding Swimming

After several months of teaching myself to swim, I progressed from fearing the water and struggling to float or breathe to swimming 50 metres of breaststroke with reasonable speed. This essay gathers the lessons, mistakes, instructional resources, and practical impressions from that process into a beginner's route into swimming.

Board Games Break the Code

2023-02-03

Break the Code Strategy Guide

By February 2023, I had played nearly 500 games of Break the Code on BGA. This guide organizes the practical approach I had developed at the time around numerical deduction, the value of questions, and endgame offense and defense.

Board Games Seasons

2023-01-28

A Quantitative Strategy Guide to Seasons

Seasons is a popular board game for 2–4 players. It has a magic-and-nature theme, a light visual style, a brisk pace, and rules that are simple without sacrificing depth.

PC Building

2022-11-11

PC Build Log

Around Singles' Day 2022, my laptop began blue-screening frequently, and its GTX 1060 Ti was also struggling with my new monitor. I decided to build an R5 5600 + RX 6600 XT desktop during the sale and record the component choices, budget, and lessons from the process.

NoneBot Python ASCII Art

2022-08-17

Building Shape-Matched ASCII Art

I recently started experimenting with ASCII art. Looking through the mainstream generation algorithms, I found that most of them map each image region to a single character using average grayscale as the metric.