The unreasonable effectiveness of want
The truth must be felt to be true
Kalin Kochnev
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Resume Redirect
Day 11
Hiking the twin peaks!
Day 3
This place is the real deal
Day 4
Feeling a little tired
Day 5
I met a celebrity
Day 1 & 2
Starting off with a bang
A life unlived through slow surrender
Freedom isn’t comfort — it’s struggle, chosen, lived, and earned.
Flickers of Greatness
Greatness cannot be sustained.
Alpha Version Done!
One semester’s worth of progress!
Alpha Version Plan
Initializing plan… begin execution
Dreams were meant to be crushed
Suspend your disbelief
Fear is the mind killer
Vernier calipers are cool!
And how to use them
The Anatomy of a WebGPU Program
For those who want to learn graphics programming but don’t know where to start
Learning to woodwork
One unit down!
Inverted pendulum construction
It’s mostly ready to wire up!
Changelog
Site optimization and bugfixes
Physics and controls research
Attempting to find a handhold to latch on
Literature review
Is a self driving bicycle even possible?
Changelog
Bug fixes and responsiveness
Prove that the diagonals of Pascal's triangle sum to the Fibonacci sequence
A neat little proof
Resonant V2 Plans!
There’s plenty of unfinished business
The website is responsive! (almost)
Sometimes when you’re code doesn’t compile, it’s not you’re fault!
Learning in public
A completely different way of thinking about learning
Multiplicative time
Pushing through your problems, most of the time, isn’t the best solution
Soft launch of the site!
The site might be rough on the edges, but bear with me
Growing pains and supply chains
Dealing with the harsh realities of engineering in the real world
Improvement ≠ Happiness
What happens when our identity and fulfillment rests solely on becoming better?
What do beaches, image compression, and singers have in common?
Staircases
Nobody knows what they are doing
Excuses aren't all bad
Contrary to common belief
Am I qualified to teach anything?
Probably not, but I’m going to anyways. Brace for impact
My favorite books of 2021
Small and big places
How a large pond can feel not so small
Lemons
How to be productively unproductive
Paper is dead, long live paper
What we lose with digital media
Losing wonder
How the educational system does the complete opposite of what it should do
A sunset a day
Sometimes we need to take a moment and do nothing
AI is overrated
Hopefully our future machine overlords don’t see this…
lol nothing matters
A small dose of perspective
Worry about now, not the future
Sometimes it feels like all we do is fail at the things we are passionate about