Category: programming
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Week 12: Life of a Software but 5-9
The author shares recent highlights, including joining the Modu Dance Crew and visiting New Hampshire’s White Mountains, appreciating nature. Their cooking adventures resumed with a new air fryer, making various dishes like stir fry, ramen, and pasta. They also mention exploring DynamoDB for app development while preparing for upcoming travels.
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Week 11: Life of a Software but 5-9
As fall approaches, the author shares plans for upcoming events, including an audition for a dance crew and a recent Lehigh Alumni event. Work and coding projects thrive despite a challenging week of bad weather and food-related issues. Tutoring is underway, promising a more relaxed week ahead.
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Refactoring My Relationship with Code
The blog discusses an agile content strategy focusing on creating simple coding programs to reignite the author’s passion for programming. Inspired by a YouTube video on money habits, they developed a Java program to measure purchases by hours of work, aiding in understanding spending while considering delayed gratification in their hobbies.
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Post-grad life – June 2025 Edition vol. 2
In the past couple of weeks, the author completed the AWS Cloud Architecture course and is preparing for full-time employment. They have paused their Amazon Affiliate side hustle, opting to focus on merchandise. After experimenting with trading, they’ve decided it’s not for them. New merch designs and promotional videos are forthcoming.
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Post-grad life – June 2025 Edition vol. 1
In my “Last Month of my last year at Lehigh University” blog post, I mentioned doing a few things this summer, one of them being “Trying out some side hustles ~.” So what side hustles have I been attempting? As for some other things like AWS Certification Exam, I am completing the course exam instead…
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Two months into Tech Start @ Liberty Mutual Insurance
Month 2 marked complete at Liberty Mutual Insurance as a Tech Start SWE Intern! This past month was filled with wonderful experiences and challenges. Here are a few highlights from my experience for month 2: 🧠Understanding Jest Unit Testing and Mocks: Ensuring our code that runs with AWS can be tested without calling APIs.…
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My 1st Solo Hack-a-thon
Shoutout to Codédex for hosting the Summer 2024 Hackathon. Wanna skip to just viewing my website? Scroll to bottom. Despite having a 9-5 internship at the moment, I really wanted to get out of my comfort zone this summer. Networking more than I ever have and coding more than I ever have. I decided to…
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How to approach a technical interview pt. 1
I’m taking Meta ABCS and wanted to share my notes from the first class. These are just surface level things of the great things this program offers so go apply for the next application opening!
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Angular: File Upload, Links, and Caching?
It’s been a while since I’m written here, but I am learning Angular at the moment so I decided to share a bit of what I’m learning and some problems I’m running into. What is Angular? Angular is a framework downloaded through npm package manager where the roots of the programming languages in Angular consist…
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lossless, dependency-preserving 3NF decomposition
That is a mouthful of unfamiliar vocabulary to me… Let’s start with the first term: Lossless Lossless is a type of data compression method. The opposite of this is lossy. Lossless keeps all data which in the sense of databases can be extremely useful. However, it can also become repetitive if the data is repetitive…
Angela Cui 