This semester was very different than the previous semesters that I had in college. Not being able to attend classes and interact with people for about a year and a half seemed to have some kind of an impact that I did not realize that I was having. Maybe that is why I was actually excited to come back to campus! Obviously, things were much different - wearing a mask on campus, supporting remote learning for the majority of classes, and another year of online career fairs. ...

Last Day of Work Today, I finished my student work at Academic Support Resources (ASR) Custom Solutions where I worked as a web developer for a year. Due to the pandemic, everything was done remotely. There are so many things that I learned by working with professional developers and I want to write down some of them. Agile Methodology The Agile way of work was something that I would always hear about, but I was never involved with. According to Atlassian, it is “an iterative approach to project management and software development that helps teams deliver value to their customers faster and with fewer headaches.” - What is Agile? ...

I was crazy enough to choose Arch Linux as my first Linux distro to start with - when a lot of people recommend choosing user-friendly distros to begin with. From creating a bootable USB to deciding what kind of programs to install so I can have my laptop work, it took a very long time. Then, somehow, I got into this thinking that I didn’t want to have a desktop environment (DE) installed but wanted to install a window manager only! This, of course, was me refusing all the comfortable features that DEs provide to users. I messed up a few times and ended up reinstalling Arch over and over. Later, I found out about Manjaro Linux which is an Arch-based distro that carries the benefits of Arch with more user-friendly features! Manjaro definitely takes care of some of the chores that I have to go through when installing Arch (of course, I am a noob Linux user). ...

Hello! Hi, this is Joon and I will be writing about some of the things that I do while studying at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. I will be starting my first year of Master’s program in computer science. I hope you enjoy your time here! Thanks for visiting, Joon