Diko Ko - Invisible Friends

Ted Lasso

Last week, I had binge-watched Ted Lasso (till the end of season 2), and it should be my favorite TV show of this year (until now). When I first heard about Ted Lasso (last year), the coach's Mario-style beard established a psychological distance of 0.3 parsecs. It also reminded

The End of the Season

The Giants' 2021 season has been ended. I believe both teams deserved a win. But I believe it was not the 'correct' scene for one of the league's best teams to end the season. This "swing" ended the Giants' season ... pic.twitter.com/MAB5mhaYAq — SF Giants

NL WEST 2021!

Watching Giants games is my joy of life. But last week, I came across a marquee message at the bottom of the TV screen saying that I might lose my Giants game coverage. I had watched live TV on Youtube TV. I had only so many options for my Internet

apple

Where will the App Store go?

Yesterday, Judge Gonzalez Rogers adjudicated on the "Epic" case in the game industry. The judge defined the market as "digital mobile gaming" and said Apple did not have a monopoly on that market. However, she concluded Apple violated California's laws against unfair competition and ordered Apple to let developers include

life

Shang-chi

Yesterday, we (my wife, daughter, and I) went to the movie theater to watch "Shang-chi and the Legend of Ten Rings." I didn't take so long to realize that how much I did miss this place. My last visit should be "Frozen 2," and after that, you know, we locked

travel

Lake Tahoe

My last summer vacation was at Lake Tahoe. It was my first visit to Tahoe. I heard a lot about Tahoe from many friends (mainly about the Wintertime for skiing) and articles (not only tour guides but do you know the TCP Tahoe?). It was a wonderful place. I love

life

The Move

I was busy this month, both personally and professionally, due to the move. Although I cannot tell all details, my recent tasks have been mainly a migration: transfer data to a new structure. It is no sophisticated works. But any discrepancy can introduce catastrophic side-effects, so it has kept me

life

Anki

I'm reading Lab Girl (Hope Jahren) these days and have struggled with my lack of vocabulary. I have been used to engineering and some political/economics jargon, but English literature (mostly emotional/descriptive terms) is still challenging. The book is more a poem than an ordinary memoir. So, I've tried

business

GameStop Frenzy

I have been a GameStop member since 2009. I love to visit their retail store (though I couldn't visit during this pandemic) and their print-version magazine (very rare these days) Game Informer. But GameStop was a center of a global issue last week for another reason - the stock market

book

What You Do is Who You Are

When I read Ben Horowitz's last book (The Hard things about Hard things), I had emotionally challenging days. I was running my own startup, and the figures were getting despairing. So, I was attuned to the book line by line. The book has come to one of my life books,

go

Pipelining with Go

A few days ago, a friend of mine posted a question about the Go concurrency control. The question was, "Can we assure that doSomething(0) always runs before doSomething(2)?" The answer would be, "No." We cannot determine the order in which goroutine can run at a preemption point as

movie

Soul

Goodbye, 2020, and welcome 2021. During the last end of year break, I had watched a bunch of movies at home. And there was "Soul." I think it should be one of my lifetime movie. Personally, my best movie of 2020 is Greyhound (What a great 90min movie!). But it

book

Tyranny of Merit

If "Disunited Nations" was my book of 2020 for my brain, "Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? (Michael J. Sandel / Farrar, Straus and Giroux)" was the one for my heart. Prof. Michael J. Sandel may be more famous in Korea than in the US. His last book

book

Disunited Nations

During the last Thanksgiving break, I read "Disunited Nations, (Peter Zeihan / Harper Business)." On the verge of 2020, I think it is my (personal) book of the year. The central theme of the book is "geography shapes everything." I always had thought that geography is critical, but I realized it

life

Queen’s Gambit

"Queen's Gambit" must be one of the most famous TV shows worldwide these days. I enjoyed it last Thanksgiving day, and I'm also the one fascinated by the show definitively. Spoiler alert: a little bit. At first, I cringed, as it was totally out of my expectation. In the usual

go

Dependency Inversion in Go

Two years ago, some engineers in my company had a study on the book "Hands-on Dependency Injection in Go." Overall, the book was about the famous SOLID principles: Single responsibility principleOpen/closed principleLiskov substitution principleInterface segregation principleDependency inversion principleAt that time, I couldn't get the last one: the dependency inversion

life

The Price of Credit

If I have to name one I hate most, I can give you a name without hesitation: Woo-Suk Hwang. In 2005, he published in the journal of Science that he successfully cloned the human embryonic stem cell. He was called the "Pride of Korea," and no Korean scientist got so

The Rule of Games

I love baseball. I’ve been a fan of SF Giants since 2008. I also got to love football (yes, American football) too last year. Last year, the 49ers made so many fantastic moments. I think those two have a similarity that “it ain’t over till it’s over.

life

A Dental Appointment

Yesterday, I visited my dental clinic. It was a regular checkup, but I put off my appointments two times because I thought dental treatment could be the most dangerous activity in this pandemic era. I was still a bit afraid, but I thought the recent COVID-19 state is relatively stable

anime

RIP. Mr. Matsumoto

Last week, there was a cool article from Vulture about the history of the animation. In those 100 great moments, I believe I know the most from the Japanese anime. As I said before, watching animes has been a part of my life. But there was a personal moment I

life

The 12.9-inch iPad Pro 2020

In late July, my daughter complained that her iPad - the first generation of 9.7 inch iPad Pro that I used before - was too slow. So... (you know) it was a perfect excuse for my upgrade. I turned my third-generation 2018 11 inch iPad Pro over to her

life

Walking Down the University Ave

I love my AirPods Pro (who doesn't?), but there has been making rattling noises recently. It started several months ago. I heard a noise that something is trembling in my right side AirPod. It was not so severe then, but it has been getting worse. I found that it was

life

Patrick Stewart

In the early 2010s, I used a service called Everpix. It was a cloud photo service that I could save my photos and view/manage them in any device. Nowadays, iCloud Photo or Google Photo is ubiquitous, but there was no one like that, and I loved the service. However,

game

Ultima IV - The End

The end of Ultima IVSo, I completed the Ultima IV last week. There is no pre-defined route in Ultima IV, but the requirement to enter the abyss - The Great Stygian Abyss - is as follows: 1) Find all runes of 8 virtues.2) Get to know all mantras of

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Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar

It was 1987 (when I was 7th grade) that my mom bought me my first computer: Apple II+. It had around 300,000 KRW price tag (about $375 at that time). Considering my family's financial status at the time, we could hardly afford it. But I believe it has changed