Sanders Lauture

Driving at Night During a Thunderstorm

I use to not like driving. Mainly because it's pretty dangerous. Also slightly because it's kind of a chore. Driving to and from the same place all the time is pretty boring. Now I don't drive that often so when I do get to drive it's less annoying and more

The Dream Of A Thousand Suns

I don't really know where I want to go with this. I am now older than I've ever been before and I recently received a blanket with my face on it. The older I get the more confused and unsure I become and the blanket only adds onto the confusion.

Changes

In a little less than a month I turn 22 years old (which is like way too long in Planck time [http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=22+years+to+planck+time]). In the grand scheme of things that really isn't that old. The average US male lives to about

Update: Replacing nginx with Caddy

TL;DR: My updated golf1052.conf [https://gist.github.com/golf1052/16f6a1b5141887ee3274] About a month ago I decided to replace nginx with Caddy. I ranted about it here [https://blog.golf1052.com/replacing-nginx-with-caddy/]. I finally remembered that it's been more than a week since I failed at setting up https

Replacing nginx with Caddy

My final configuration files are at the bottom of the post A couple days ago I was reading HackerNews and I read about this thing called Caddy. It's a server thing like nginx or Apache except it's new and written in Go. I actually only cared about the fact that

Why I Will Miss Winter

Somehow it's March already. Winter is almost over (even though it snowed yesterday). This winter wasn't that snowy and even though last winter probably provided enough snow for a lifetime I still love snow. Can't really imagine a winter without snow. Also somehow I'm already four years into college. In

♥

I hope you find someone who makes you smile uncontrollably like an idiot. And I hope they feel the same way about you. Happy Valentines Day. Or Singles Awareness Day. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

HackJeanSpot 2016

(This post may contain shitty technology puns) HackBeanpot is still the best hackathon I go to every year (I however only go to up to three hackathons so there isn't that much competition). The main reason HackBeanpot is so great is because there is so much time to do things.

Hello Again

Today I will be writing about not having anything to write about. When I first started blogging I pretty much just wrote about whatever. Homework assignments, fires, weekends, whatever. It didn't really matter what I wrote about because all I really cared about was writing something every week. As time

A(nother) Look Back

Surprisingly enough I've been "consistently" writing blog posts for two years now. Last year I did a look back [https://blog.golf1052.com/a-look-back/] so I guess I'll do another one, because I'm unoriginal. Posts to date (not including this one): 85 So at the beginning of last year I

Alone

The end of the semester usually is a strange and somewhat stressful time. My sleep schedule goes to shit, well, gets even worse than it usually is while I procrastinate my way through projects. I somehow manage to wake up for morning exams. And then it’s all over. Usually

Microsoft Band Review

Header image from Windows Central [http://www.windowscentral.com/hands-on-microsoft-band-2] The Microsoft Band isn't a smartwatch. Or at least that's what Microsoft wants you to believe. Late last year Microsoft quietly released the Band. The original Band included a ton of sensors. 1. Heart rate monitor 2. Accelerometer 3. Gyrometer

Surface Book Review

About a month ago I walked into a Microsoft store and bought a Surface Book. The first new computer that I intended on keeping [https://blog.golf1052.com/i-used-a-computer-for-two-weeks] in almost 3 years. My last computer was the Surface Pro 1 so I'm kind of used to the Surface model

YHack 2015

On the bus ride back from Yale in between my naps I asked myself why I still go to hackathons. If you don’t know what hackathons are the whole idea sounds kind of interesting but the reality is somewhat different. Hackathons are draining, you stay up for way too

Autumn

His roommate opened his door. “Hello?” He was lying face down on his bed. “Hey, I haven’t seen you in like 2 days. What happened?” He just groaned. “Oh wait…I’m guessing something happened between you and her.” He rolled over and looked up at the ceiling, “Yeah…

Rain

...as she typed into his phone. She paused for a second, hit send... [http://golf1052.com/pk-texts/index.html]

Clear

They walked down the path together. “Hey we should stop here”, he said as he went to lie down on the grass. “What are you doing?” she asked. “Come look at the stars” he said while looking up at the sky. She shivered a little as she looked around and

Showers

“Actually my break is now, I’ll come join you.” She ducked under the counter and walked over to a table with him. He put his phone on the table, sat down, and took a sip of his coffee. “How is it?” she asked while sliding into the other chair.

Hurricane

He took a deep breath and paused for a moment. Did he actually want to go through with this? He could instead just leave everything in its place, it was going…OK, he though. Then again, why would he even be here in this moment if it was going well.

My Ideal Hackathon

This post is mainly a response and expansion to this post [https://medium.com/@folz/selling-out-and-the-death-of-hacker-culture-fec1f101b138] . Go read it now, it's a great read. (Disclaimer: I have never organized or run a hackathon so I have no idea how much work or time goes into getting one off the ground.

HackMIT 2015

Another weekend I spent trying (and failing) not to sleep. Also coding things. Surprisingly this was my 8th hackathon (I'm including GameJams in that count). As usual I didn't know most of the stack I worked with (what is a Bower?) but I enjoyed myself as I got to do

8 Months Later

Tomorrow is my last day of co-op. I don’t know if I’ve been looking forward to this day. Sometimes you just want things to change and sometimes you want things to stay the same; but whatever happens time marches on and you have to make the best of

Music

I was in band for nine years (4th – 12th grade). I played alto saxophone. I first started listening to the radio, against my parents wishes, in 6th grade. I basically only listened to Radio Disney at the time and they liked to play Lonely [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

I Used A Computer For Two Weeks

Two weeks ago I walked into an Apple store and bought a MacBook Pro. Today I walked into that same store and returned a MacBook Pro. My life hasn't really changed over the past two weeks. I tried to keep a log over the last two weeks of my experiences

I Bought a MacBook Pro

This changes everything. This is actually the first Apple product I have ever owned. Never owned an iPod (never owned a Zune either unfortunately). My first [http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/SCH-U340ZBAUSC-search] three [http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=2127] phones [http://www.samsung.com/