Finished watching たまこまーけっと. Remarkable Nichijou anime, as I had expected! I’m planning to watch たまこラブストーリー, ASAP.

Started watching たまこまーけっと.

I’ve always loved watching Nichijou Anime from Kyoto Animation: らき☆すた, 日常, K-ON!, 涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 – including this time: たまこまーけっと. awesome animes! Highly recommended if you don’t have much spare time and can only watch animes in between those working hours.

Wrote a blog here. Finally, I can play galgames on my Thinkpad. I’ve been wishing to play galgame for quite a long time – approximately a year – and I ultimately managed to find some time and get up steam to tinker with those Wine-setups.

Started a new textbook solution project here. Let’s see how much exercises in the book will be covered before I turn to read something else.

Wasted a whole day and got nothing done. Feeling shit as hell.

First, I continued looking for a personal email hosting service, as I’ve always wanted to have my own email address named in @flandre.red. Last time, at my friend’s suggestion as he is personaly using, I tried resend, but my account ended up being permanently suspended:

From: <[email protected]>
To: `text omitted`
Subject: Your submission is being reviewed

Hi there,

Generally speaking, Resend is not a tool designed for personal email - it's
more suited to email automation and newsletters.

Can you please provide more information about the nature of your sending and
how you plan to use Resend?

Slater Smith, Customer Success Engineer @ Resend

So this time I turned to mailbox. After a ton of registration, I ultimately failed to use my VISA from BOC to purchase the service in EUR – that card only seemed to support USD. So f BOC. Maybe I’ll try other services like Zoho mail or Purelymail.

Second, I was planning to use Kdenlive and RVC to glue multiple webm files recorded during a seminar together, turn the discussion audio into characters voices such as 豊川祥子, align multiple sound tracks toghether with the lecture recording. In the alignment step, Kdenlive has to transform the .webm files into .mp4 format in order to edit. However, some bugs in Kdenlive’s native file transformation makes the transformed video unidentified by itself. And I tried

ffmpeg -i "file:2026-08-16T05:11:11.486-flandre.webm" \
  -map 0:v:0 -map "0:a:0?" \
  -c:v libx264 -preset veryfast -crf 18 -pix_fmt yuv420p \
  -r 30 \
  -c:a aac -b:a 192k \
  -movflags +faststart \
  -copyts -avoid_negative_ts make_zero \
  "file:2026-08-16T05:11:11.486-flandre.mp4"

which the timestamp ended up corrupted, and I gave up. F it.

Finished watching 超かぐや姫！. It’s awesome – great production quality! Highly recommended.

Wrote a blog. I personally like the last two theorems, pretty structural. I think propositions like these are the reason why I’m into algebra.

Started watching ぐらんぶる S03.

This is my favourite comedy anime series. I heard that the original comic version of ぐらんぶる has even better expressiveness and illustration quality. Hence I decided to read the whole series from the beginning.

Though I’m still considering whether to purchase the physical book version or an appropriate E-reader, both are being so expensive…

Started watching BanG Dream! YUME∞MITA.

The production quality and plot is pretty remarkable, especially comparing to BanG Dream! Ave Mujica, where all the personas of the characters I love ended up ruined in a stupid way. But Viola’s motives, for all the things she did, are remained unresolved. And I don’t think this anime will have a satisfactory ending if the motivation was established in an overly simplistic way – inner motive development is required.

藤都子 & 宮永ののか可愛い…

Started watching ヤニねこ.

I wish I could have a gap year to read through The Rising Sea: Foundations of Algebraic Geometry before becoming a sophomore student.

It’s a really remarkable book for A.G. self-learning – the book is self-contained, i.e. any concepts and conclusions mentioned in the context will be taught within the textbook. Hence you won’t be struggling to search for an appropriate reference in order to learn those prerequisites.

You know, one can easily be stuck at some improperly hard or off-topic books & sites to learn a certain topic. For instance, the last time I learnt algebraic varieties with Algebraic Geometry - Hartshorne ended up spending half a year reading Commutative Algebra - M.Atiyah to supply my C.A. prerequisite.

In spite of such advantage, let’s address the elephant in the room: it’s freaking thick! The July 27 2024 draft version, which is the version that I’ve been reading, has 850 pages in total… I do want to read it through, but if I really do so, I won’t have enough time to catch up the progress in my A.G. seminar and finishing my undergraduate course with a decent GPA.

The fact is: Despite being a pure math student, I cannot get any major-credits from reading such book, simply because our school don’t have courses at such level or reading programs for undergraduate students to do. Equivalently, I’ll be PUNISHED for spending such time which I ought to use to “learn” my undergraduate courses – those which I finished several years ago, and I don’t think anyone would want to review subjects like mathematical analysis over and over again, what a shame.

Started playing 魔法使いの夜.

Just finished Chapter 1. Quite interesting so far, except that the plot is kind of slow-paced for me… For years, I’ve found it hard to finish playing the whole story of a galgame. Moreover there’re only few anime that I managed to finish watching, for instance 幸運☆星, while others were aborted in the middle , like 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン. I feel bad for the creators, but I always managed to find something else less time-comsuming to do when taking entertainments. Recreations like watching a 15-minute video on Youtube or Bilibili usually seemed to be more tempting for me :(

Anyway, I hope I can finish the whole story of 魔法使いの夜.

I’ve been reading Algebraic Number Theory and Fermat’s Last Theorem by Ian Stewart and David Tall in a seminar this summer holiday.

I found that ring of algebraic integers has some very nice properties, which makes it behaves like the ring of rational integers $\mathbb{Z}$. For instance, we know:

The ring of integers $\mathfrak{O}$ of a number field $K$ has the following properties:

1. It is an ingegral domain, with the field of fractions $K$.
2. It is noetherian.
3. $\forall \alpha\in K$ satisfying a monic polynomial equation with coefficients in $\mathfrak{O}$, then $\alpha\in\mathfrak{O}$.
4. Every non-zero prime ideals of $\mathfrak{O}$ is maximal.

Isn’t it nice? Such kind of large famliy of rings, where all of which shares such well properties, has been really rare.

I’ve been tinkering with something fascinating lately — a fully file-based immersive teaching system that turns a vanilla markdown directory into a living, breathing academic world with persistent characters, emotions, and memory.

What a pleasure live & learn with Togawa Sakiko & Wakaba Mutsumi! It’s just like a interactive Galgame.

The project is nearly finished as a “beta version”– I’m using it and see if there’re any bugs. If you are interested in this project, see Learning algebra in an interactive galgame

I tranplanted my nvim config file from .vim to .lua. I heard there’re some better alternatives in nvim plugins community comparing to vim community where I used to be at. Hence as I result I replaced vim-plug with lazy.nvim, auto-pairs with nvim-autopairs. I’m quite satisfied so far.

First time using AI agent!

I tried Opencode with Deepseek api to help me with my galgame developing, and it’s way more efficient than the traditional web-based chatbot AI. It has access to my specified directories, which is way more convenient than manually uploading files. It can even dispatch subagents to handle tasks on its own—a huge efficiency boost.

Also, tokens from Deepseek V4 are indeed really cheap. I’m now using it to do tedious works or those I’m not so familiar with. Let’s just hope it doesn’t crash my repo.

Now that the three core subsites (math, blogs, posts) of this domain are basically done, I’ve redesigned the whole site to go for a galgame-style reading experience.

This is my first post at my site using Hugo, kind of excited. The web configuration was easier than I thought.

I tried Tridactyl to replace Vimium C , which I’ve been using for quite a while.

It’s always a pleasure to use vim-keybindings in web browsers. I’ve already heard of Qutebrowser , but it seems to be kind of counterintuitive to use – as I’m used to nice gui-interface in my web browser. Also, I do really appreciate my current browser Zen for its elegant UI&UX as well as innovative functionalities. Therefore I was looking for a better vim-keybindings experience without leaving Zen, where Tridactyl shows up.

I’m still transforming my habits & muscle memory in Vimium C to suit Tridactyl. So far, I can say the gi behaviour (for focusing input) is being worse. h/j/k/l for moving web pages was kind of laggy, where the page will pulse for a while before continuous scrolling, as it’s not the one I’m accustomed to in Vimium C. But the native messenger was game-changing, as it enables me to use neovim in a floating terminal window to edit input in web – I’m loving it.

I’ll try Tridactyl for a while, unless I found it really not being my cup of tea.