For the past few months I’ve been working heavily on an English Dictionary database, to help people learn English. It’s called English Fox, more on this next time.

After learning Chinese Mandarin for over 10 years. I feel I should write a guide on how to pronounce Mandarin and so give something back to the language learning community. This guide will go over all the pronunciations for specifically Taiwanese Mandarin but it’s about 90% the same as mainland China. This is everything I wish I knew when I started learning.

I haven’t found a good online test to simulate the official TOCFL Chinese test. So here is a version I made.

This will remove the sidekiq iteration hash from the arguments, so the sidekiq job will appear unique to unique jobs.

After reading this post on getting Radicale working on Gnome CalDav and CardDav. I just wanted to make my own post to show how it’s done in nginx. Here is the code below:

Around five years ago, I made the decision to migrate my blog from Jekyll to Middleman due to my belief that Jekyll was too limiting. Middleman offered the flexibility to utilize any Ruby gems without the need to deal with liquid tags. However, as time passed, I discovered that my choice had its drawbacks, and I now realize that Jekyll was a more suitable platform for my blogging needs.

I was working on my game recently and realized my random item code doesn’t randomly select items the correct way.

Most people think to incorporate federally and provincially it requires a lawyer and tons of paperwork. I recently incorporated my business provincially and it is actually quite easy, you do not need a lawyer, or spend much money.

I recently been getting back into studying Chinese and been looking into ways to learn more effectively. The first thing I did was think about what small piece of Chinese do I want to be better at? There are too many aspects and had to focus in.