If you’re a Costco Executive Member and mostly shop for groceries or fill up at Costco gas stations, the PayPal debit card is a no-brainer. I’ve said before that credit cards are usually the best ...

I recently read Personal Finance 101 by Alfred Mill. If you’ve been exploring finance or investing for a while, you might already know about 70% of what it covers—this book is really aimed at begin...

I’ve been using Jekyll to build websites for both work and my personal site (this one) for years, but I never took the time to fully understand how it works. In this post, I’m diving into everythi...

Living in Michigan as a broken graduate student and new worker, I’ve always tried to keep my car insurance costs low without paying attention to details. About a month ago, a friend’s car was scrat...

I’ve recently been exploring finance and investing topics and stumbled upon a serious issue: identity theft. Essentially, someone can use your Social Security Number (SSN) to open credit cards, rac...

In my previous immigration journal post, I recounted my experiences with the F1 visa and concluded with the beginning of my H1B visa process. Now my H1B has been approved, this post is meant to doc...

I recently started working with a large C++ codebase at my job, which sparked my interest in really learning C++. Until now, I’ve only used C++ when necessary, without fully diving into it. Theref...

Recently, I started on the H1B visa process, which inspired me to share my journey navigating through various F1 statuses. In this post, I’ll dive into my F1 experiences starting with the F1 studen...

This post is to document my debugging process. Background The project focused on implementing AprilTag detection on an Nvidia Jetson Nano using an Arducam. The objective was to stream video while...

I was surprised to realize that, despite two years of robotics education, I hadn’t been motivated to learn about 3D printing. I didn’t really have a chance to print anything for my classes, and I c...