Thoughts By Carl

Life Updates

Hey, it's been a while. I'm still alive and kicking. 2020 onwards felt crazy, with the pandemic and all. When lockdowns were imposed on March, the first few weeks felt like an eternity. Everyone was ordered to stay put, and no one knew when it would end. Time stopped. Za

Wedding Website

Apparently, my wedding website [https://rosemy.carlearvin.com/] is still alive even after almost a year of non-use! Basically, it's a poster page for info regarding the wedding, and guests can RSVP on the site using a given pass phrase. It's written using Vue for the frontend, and django for

7-9/9 Weeks of Photography

In true Carl fashion, here are the last three long overdue pictures for 2019! I was not able to get any specific ones, so I just chose pseudorandomly from what's already in my photo gallery.

Personal Featured

In Retrospect

Looking back at the last 10 years

Spotify Wrapped

Spotify Wrapped

Here are my top artists for the year and for the decade according to Spotify

Qo·heʹleth

A poem based on the book of Ecclesiastes

6/9 Weeks of Photography

6/9 Weeks of Photography

This week's post is dedicated to a number: 104. 104 is a semiperfect or a pseudoperfect number, since it is the sum of some of its proper divisors (1 + 4 + 8 + 13 + 26 + 52 = 104). A perfect number on the other hand is the sum of all of its proper

5/9 Weeks of Photography

5/9 Weeks of Photography

My photo for the 5th week is delayed! So I'm dedicating the fifth photo to one of the causes of delays here in the city: bad traffic conditions. It's not inherently obvious in the picture, but it's supposedly demonstrating a deadlock, where the vehicles can't pass since they're all blocking

Sharing executable files

I needed to share .exe files and tried attaching them to gmail. However, it's blocked from being attached. Makes sense since gmail might think it's a malicious program. I tried zipping the file and encrpyting it using .zip. No go. I tried .7z to also encrypt the filenames. Still doesn't

Droplet Access via SSH

Despite starting this blog from scratch again, I opted to use my previous Digital Ocean droplet instead of creating a new one. This wouldn't usually be a problem, but I forgot my password, and the machine I used to set that up is different than the one I'm using now.

4/9 Weeks of Photography

4/9 Weeks of Photography

This week's photo was taken in our Circuit Assembly with our circuit overseer. The theme is "Love Builds Up", which follows the previous Regional Convention theme of "Love Never Fails." The theme is taken from 1Co 8:1. > Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. We learned from the examples

3/9 Weeks of Photography

3/9 Weeks of Photography

This picture's a bit of a cheat since I didn't have anything for this week, and I just asked my wife for a good shot. This is the view from outside our building. This has been my home since end of 2010. To be accurate, I moved out 2014 to

Web Tech Stacks

Web Tech Stacks

Here are some of my projects and the tech stacks I used to build them.

2/9 Weeks of Photography

2/9 Weeks of Photography

Van Gogh Alive [https://www.vangoghalive.ph/] is the most visited multi-sensory experience in the world. It features the life and works of the said artist. We visited it on November 14, 2019. I honestly had different expectations as to the exhibit since I expected it to be more interactive.

"Ponder Over These Things"

"Ponder Over These Things"

This is the daily text [https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dt/r1/lp-e/2019/11/12] for today, November 12, 2019. It's taken from 1 Tim. 4:15. To give some background information about this scripture, Timothy was a 30-something Christian elder during the time this was written. He

1/9 Weeks of Photography

1/9 Weeks of Photography

I'm not much of a fan of taking photos. To become more mindful and to encourage myself to explore and get out of the house more, I'll post here a photo that highlights my week. I'll do this once a week until the end of 2019, and I'll start with

Rebirth

Restarting my blog after a year and a half.