I think I was on a good track in respect to sticking to my habits in November. Alas, things didn't go so well in December: Habit Tracking December This December we were travelling first to New Zealand for a week and then to Taiwan. That made it very
death
The less time you know you have, the richer the experience of living becomes. And your whole perspective changes. All of the little, petty things fall away and you realize how truly wonderful it is to be alive, even if just for a moment. The way I see it — life
exercise
After having done very poorly on keeping to my habits in October, things have greatly improved in November. Here the overview for November: Habit Tracking November Some things to note: * Exercise: While in October, I was only able to do exercise twice due to being injured, I exercised eleven times
afterlife
By objective standards, our lives are rather drab and pointless. We are biological machines forged by billions of years of natural selection, programmed with the purpose to ensure the propagation of our genes. On a cosmic scale, our lives are insignificant and extremely short. There is little doubt that, in
exercise
Following my new system for tracking habits I have again kept track of various habits I try to follow. Here the overview for October. Habit Tracking October Overall, I didn't do very well, just like in September. Here my notes on the individual habits: * Exercise and Stretching: Since
compassion
I have already written about a practice centred on the powerful emotion of compassion. However, today I came across an interesting variation of a practice on compassion (in the book Happiness by Matthieu Ricard): one that reflects our own suffering onto others, and helps us heal from our own suffering.
open-source
In my previous three posts, I have developed a simple WebGL application using react-three-fiber and three.js. In this post, I am adding texture loading and proper lighting to the application. For reference, here the links to the previous versions of the app: * Version 1: Just being able to drag
open-source
I have recently been working on small example application using three.js and react-three-fiber. In the first two iterations, I first developed a simple draggable shape floating in space and then supported multiple shapes that can be moved on a physical plane. In this post, I am going to be
open-source
Following up from my article published a few days ago, I have now extended and improved the simple WebGL application that I originally developed using Three.js and react-three-fiber. Version 1 of the application allowed dragging a simple shape around on the screen: App: https://react-three-fiber-draggable.surge.sh/ Source Code:
open-source
I recently became interested how to render 3D graphics in the browser. I think WebGL is an extremely powerful technology and may one day become an important way of rendering content on the web. There are various frameworks and tools available to use WebGL such as Babylon.js and three.
habits
I recently read the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. One of the interesting ideas presented in this book was that in order to bring about personal change, we need to start with our identity, then change our practices and processes and thus achieve better outcomes; as in, I am
destiny
In life, things are bound to happen to us. Sometimes they are caused by our actions or inaction but, more often than not, things just happen for no apparent reason. I believe that how we think about the latter affects our well-being tremendously. Given that seemingly random events play such
