Recovered archive of blog.josephzho.ng, 2016-2022.https://blog.josephzho.ng/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2022/05/27/building-a-small-pc-6-n/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2022/05/27/building-a-small-pc-6-n/now to enable SSH This was actually really easy; just log into your router (figure out what your private IP address and admin password, written on the router) and just set up Port-Forwarding for TCP/22 and fwd to your system's private IP Get Private IP Address on Server ForFri, 27 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2022/05/23/building-a-small-pc-5-n/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2022/05/23/building-a-small-pc-5-n/Update: After doing a more intensive load test, the system eventually stabilizes at ~70C for both CPU/GPU during the day without my ridiculously unreasonably cold Air-Conditioning. But with the AC on during the evening the system seems to plateau at 68C GPU / 63-66C CPU which makes me pretty happy.Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2022/05/18/building-a-small-pc-4-n/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2022/05/18/building-a-small-pc-4-n/Misc Setup Notes Some more follow-ups Rclone: GDrive Syncing Setup RClone for a free CLI remote-agnostic rsync/mounting tool Since it looks like nice GUI-based linux GDrive solutions are paid-only; I'll just stick with this for the time-being, just want a place to mount a directory or two but maybeWed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2022/05/15/building-a-small-pc-2-n/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2022/05/15/building-a-small-pc-2-n/Last post [blog link] I wrote about some learnings on building small quiet PCs I finally ordered parts [pcpartpicker] and put the thing together A couple notes: Let's start with the easy fun stuff. This build was a lot easier than what I remember from "back in the day&Sun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2022/05/15/building-a-small-pc-3-n/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2022/05/15/building-a-small-pc-3-n/Now that the PC is finally built it's time to install OS and software! The first thing to do is check that the thing actually even turns on. Check! First try! Was pretty escstatic about this one. Second step, do you get video? The meshlicious forces the GPU ports toSun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2022/05/14/building-pc/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2022/05/14/building-pc/Learned lots of stuff so far I like quiet! Quiet is good! https://www.quietpc.com/ is a good place to look up fan air-flow capability vs. max noise vs max RPM. Higher noise is a function of smaller fan, and higher RPM. Small cases are great! This is aSat, 14 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2022/01/16/movie-list-jun-2020/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2022/01/16/movie-list-jun-2020/Watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1968, John Hughes, starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones) Where'd You Go Bernadette (2019, Richard Linklater, starring Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Kristen Wiig, Judy Greer, Laurence Fishburne) Parasite (2019, Bong Joon-ho, starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam,Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2022/01/16/psycho-1960-alfred-hitchcock/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2022/01/16/psycho-1960-alfred-hitchcock/Fantastic movie, I'm shocked I only watched this now. Really reminded me of Perfect Blue (1997, Satoshi Kon) in some ways (revealing this would ruin the plot or suspense of the film). Both these two films did an amazing job of invoking such intense emotion. One fun detail that's personalSun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2021/04/02/macos-setup/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2021/04/02/macos-setup/It's been a quite a long time since I've written a post on computer-setup. It's just been a while since I've been challenged to change what I'm comfortable with... Anyway, glad to finally have been challenged once more to make some change :) Terminal.app/ssh/screen -- I've always beenFri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2020/07/14/hunger-2017/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2020/07/14/hunger-2017/Hunger by Roxane Gay "I do not know why I turned to food, or I do. I was lonely and scared, and food offered an immediate satisfaction. Food offered comfort when I needed to be comforted, and did not know how to ask for what I needed from thoseTue, 14 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2020/07/05/dear-white/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2020/07/05/dear-white/A story of a racially segregated university and how people so similar can seem so different, and how people so different can feel so similarly. More nuanced was how the different black communities interacted among each other: Even though the line "It's as if we go to a differentSun, 05 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2020/06/14/is-everyone-hanging-out-without-me/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2020/06/14/is-everyone-hanging-out-without-me/Adventures of Mindy Kaling from New York to LA, and a beautifully unfiltered view into her world of television comedy and late night show-biz. names Duante Diallo: first encounter of bullying, body-shaming, and anorexia Mavis Lehrman: first best friend, learned the most about herself and comedy passion here, recalls initialSun, 14 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2020/06/08/reading-list-june-2020/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2020/06/08/reading-list-june-2020/Have Read: [x] Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan [x] Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple [x] Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Mindy Kaling [x] Hunger by Roxane Gay [wip] Becoming by Michelle Obama [wip] Exhalation by Ted Chiang [wip] My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglass [wip]Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2020/06/07/crazy-rich-asians/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2020/06/07/crazy-rich-asians/goodreads Spectacular view into the world of excess and luxury, paired against the deeper nuanced social-family status tensions for outsiders peering in. [spoilers warning] Astrid/Michael and Rachel/Nick's relationship is wonderfully juxtaposed: I was particularly moved by Kwan's painting of Astrid as a glorious leader for the reader toSun, 07 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2020/06/07/talking-past-each-other-a-tragedy/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2020/06/07/talking-past-each-other-a-tragedy/"I can't breathe." — Eric Garner, 2014 [1] — George Floyd, 2020 [2] I've had immense luxury of time to think about the recent events of H1-2020. Privilege to not have been personally affected, I looked into perceptions of the BLM movement from both ends of the spectrum. For thoseSun, 07 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2020/06/04/upgrading-to-macos-catalina/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2020/06/04/upgrading-to-macos-catalina/MacOS Catalina (10.15.x) has some cool new features, in particular Catalyst, enables iPad developers to run apps natively in MacOS, which is INCREDIBLE! I would love if all my iPad/iPhone apps could just seamlessly run on my laptop. There aren't that many useful apps running this yetThu, 04 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2019/11/19/touch-id-for-sudo-on-touch/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2019/11/19/touch-id-for-sudo-on-touch/A previously well known trick for Touch-ID enabled MacBookPros: to prevent having to type your password for sudo, you can simply enable touch-id for authentication in place of the password. This authentication is configured in /etc/pam.d/sudo. Thus, to enable Touch-ID for sudo, simply edit the file toTue, 19 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2019/09/16/groundhog-day/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2019/09/16/groundhog-day/Starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, this beautiful story depicts a disgruntled and cynical weatherman, Phil Conners, who wakes up one day, and is forced to re-live the same day, repeatedly, for eternity. At first, in denial, Phil tries to escape his reality, living as though life had no consequenceMon, 16 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2019/08/25/bonnie-and-tortie/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2019/08/25/bonnie-and-tortie/During a short lunch conversation this summer, I learned a deep lesson about myself and my internal values. me: tortoises and bonsai trees are so great, they live forever and ever* and are so peaceful and zen. One day I think I'll get myself a baby bonsai tree named Bonnie,Sun, 25 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2019/08/25/lessons-from-nyc/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2019/08/25/lessons-from-nyc/A collection of a few lessons learned while working at CTRL-labs from friends + peers Family is probably great (in my idealistic and opinionated dream, see Bonnie and Tortie) It's really difficult to identify when you're not being treated right, or why you're not happy -- an outsider's perspective is sometimesSun, 25 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2019/08/23/end-of-act-i-scene-ii/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2019/08/23/end-of-act-i-scene-ii/Finally, round two of grueling finals, essays and standard deviation games has pass; and with the turn of the seasons, I didn't even realize it was Springtime already! “The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to ...... stop the people who don’tFri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2019/08/23/gradient-gradual-descent/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2019/08/23/gradient-gradual-descent/I've recently begun keeping track of quotes, sayings, and other miscellaneous ideas that makes me press pause, and reflect. One interesting Quora response on "harsh life lessons people should learn in their 20s", made me realize how difficult it is, sometimes, to see the long-term impact of ourFri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2019/04/14/writing-what-you-learn/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2019/04/14/writing-what-you-learn/I'm graduated now. After the initial shock, I realized I hadn't written a "school-year" reflection piece for a while now -- In fact, I hadn't written a reflection piece in quite some time. I've decided it'd be a good idea for myself to write on my thoughts onSun, 14 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2019/01/09/python3-in-macosx/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2019/01/09/python3-in-macosx/Historically, upgrading an OS is always a total pain In particular, as of June 2018, Python 3.7 has been released, and that's screwing up many of the package managers where installing Python 3.5 of 3.6 has been the default (and intended) behavior. As a result, here's howWed, 09 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2018/12/27/memorable-quotes/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2018/12/27/memorable-quotes/I've realized that I quite enjoy internalizing short little impactful pieces, whether from books and movies, or even in conversation. Thus I've decided to keep a collection of some of my favorites: 2020 Even if we didn't know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone onThu, 27 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2017/03/27/underlying-principles/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2017/03/27/underlying-principles/The quest for “artificial flight” succeeded when the Wright brothers and others stopped imitating birds and started using wind tunnels and learning about aerodynamics.Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2017/01/20/android-cameras-surfaceviews-and-display-previews/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2017/01/20/android-cameras-surfaceviews-and-display-previews/If you're making an Android Camera application, it's quite useful to know, or display "what the camera is seeing". There is some documentation on this subject, but getting it right can be quite tricky, especially getting it right on the numerous different types of devices out there. First,Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2017/01/20/draft-2-essay-1/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2017/01/20/draft-2-essay-1/Three years ago when I first volunteered for StudentRND, a non-profit that hosts coding events for low-income and underrepresented groups, I joined with a specific goal to help facilitate learning opportunities for students without easy access to computers. While volunteering for StudentRND's primary event, CodeDay, a 24-hour event to inspireFri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2017/01/20/draft-5-essay-2/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2017/01/20/draft-5-essay-2/I wiped the workroom whiteboard clean one last time that evening in frustration with myself. “This is just math!” I naively exclaimed in my head: “I just need a function to decelerate the bot as it approaches its target—why am I struggling so much with simple algebra?” Determined toFri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2017/01/20/mans-search-for-meaning/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2017/01/20/mans-search-for-meaning/Viktor Frankl, 1946 This book was recommended by a good friend of mine -- and it must have been good, as he told me. "Don't read it in a day, it's some heavy shit". Overall, I agree: it's incredibly humbling to peer into one's life and perspective inFri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/12/31/android-fix-the-nexus-upside-down-camera/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/12/31/android-fix-the-nexus-upside-down-camera/This took me an embarrassing amount of time and energy to unravel... Eventually the solution was to carefully go back to the Capturing Video tutorial and very carefully try possible permutations that don't contradict the steps: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/camera.html#capture-video Refactor CameraView (simplify theSat, 31 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/09/15/from-this-summer/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/09/15/from-this-summer/There was a time during my high school days when I had for some reason lost interest in nearly all games: Soccer, Chess, StarCraft, League of Legends, Xbox... Nintendo is still alive?? The craze for me was over, and the wash of boredom ensued. Today, I come to realize whatThu, 15 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/09/15/goal/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/09/15/goal/There was a time during my high school days when I had for some reason lost interest in nearly all games: Soccer, Chess, StarCraft, League of Legends, Xbox... Nintendo is still alive?? The craze for me was over, and the wash of boredom ensued. Today, I come to realize whatThu, 15 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/08/21/2016-summer-reading-list/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/08/21/2016-summer-reading-list/Books Mythical Man Month Software Engineering and Project Management by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." -- Brooks' Law Lean In A collection of memoirs by Sheryl Sandberg "What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid?" -- Sandberg,Sun, 21 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/06/22/daily-todos/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/06/22/daily-todos/Don't be too respectful Don't be too arrogant Don't overwork Ignore anything, but don't ignore #3 Don't ask dumb questions Read documentation Sell yourself Don't over-sell yourself Play to your strengths As an engineer, results are all that matter Be timely and consistent Don't be trivial or annoying Have fullWed, 22 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/06/22/the-unthrottle-able-week/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/06/22/the-unthrottle-able-week/I started my internship wanting to push myself like nothing else mattered: "Get seven days of work done in one and you'll be good" Not counting weekend time (which I spent on stuff other than work!?), I came close clinching the finish of my first assignment plus itsWed, 22 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/06/19/week-1/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/06/19/week-1/General Notes from week 1 List of randomly useful things in no particular ordering List of stuff to learn Frameworks GStreamer input-selector output-selector Events/Bus/GLib PIP/Drawing/Transform List of stuff learned Python Key logging OSX: https://github.com/justicesuh/python-keylogger/blob/master/keylogger.py Linux: https://github.com/Sun, 19 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/06/16/day-two-focus-and-motivation/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/06/16/day-two-focus-and-motivation/Have laser pointer focus, but contextualize with broad, and long-term, meaningful motivation. The last two days at work have somehow naturally given me such a perspective: The bar for expectations and significance are set incredibly high Pace is even faster By combining infinitely enticing development and stetching, yet achievable growthThu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/06/14/2-857142857/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/06/14/2-857142857/For the next weeks, I'll be keeping track of my progress quantitatively, and try to identify things I'm bad at, and get good at them :) I inconveniently become unfocused despite all the incredibly cool and exciting stuff that lays right in front of my eyes Simply running code and experimentingTue, 14 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/05/28/end-quote/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/05/28/end-quote/I sometimes want to fail more people in my classes. This is not because I am evil, ... but because I want the people ... to be truly the best in the world. Dr. Von AhnSat, 28 May 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/05/24/ice-cream/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/05/24/ice-cream/It's pretty easy to ask questions. For example, you can ask someone, "Do you want Ice Cream?" Most would, of course, respond with an enthusiastic "Yes!!" But. You can dig deeper. "Will you pay for this ice cream? Why?" "What if I setTue, 24 May 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/03/28/the-calm-before-the-storm-spring-2016/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/03/28/the-calm-before-the-storm-spring-2016/The Calm Spring is in full bloom with pollen in the air and the sad cries of my bank account mourning the Third Quarter textbook fees. This Spring Break was actually pretty productive. I got a chance to go home (finally) and visit my lovely parents and cheeky younger sister.Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/03/17/blog-is-finally-up/https://blog.josephzho.ng/2016/03/17/blog-is-finally-up/:D :D :D :D :D :D After working on Paer in 2015, and coming across Ghost -- I've finally become proficient in Node/Heroku to get this thingy running... :) Anyways, stay tuned for more of me! I'll try to be publishing on a regular basis, as a few personal goalsThu, 17 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT