2026-08-28T13:19:16-07:00 https://urd00m.github.io Alan Wang wangalan@berkeley.edu 2026-05-05T00:00:00-07:00 https://urd00m.github.io/research/2026/05/05/research-advice <p>Stub for research advice :D. I’ll accumulate it here as I go.</p> 2026-05-05T00:00:00-07:00 https://urd00m.github.io/2026/05/05/fellowship-journey <p>In progress. Don’t know exactly what I want to do here yet.</p> 2024-10-22T00:00:00-07:00 https://urd00m.github.io/research/2024/10/22/peek-a-walk <h2 id="paper-here">Paper: <a href="/assets/papers/peek-a-walk.pdf">here</a></h2> <h2 id="code-here">Code: <a href="https://github.com/FPSG-UIUC/Peek-a-Walk">here</a></h2> <p><br /> <br /> <br /></p> <p>Going to put my thoughts here potentially about the peek-a-walk stuff.</p> 2024-10-22T00:00:00-07:00 https://urd00m.github.io/general/2024/10/22/blog-updates <p>I finally got around to doing some website updates as a break from research. I’ve been wanting to do some website updates for some time. I’ve also wanted to create a better way to track just general notekeeping and readings I’ve done. So naturally, the website update I wanted to do was upgrading the blog to also contain notes of any kind (like notes on papers) :D</p> <p>One might think that this is a rather easy change, just create two different blogs right? Each would contain posts from different categories like security paper reads and general blogs. This unfortunately <strong>does not work</strong> and after spending a couple hours trying to hack Jekyll to do this I gave up. The problem is that Jekyll assumes one blog and just naturally accumlates everything into one blog. Paginator assumes the same thing (though there is V2 which apparently supports multiple categories, github pages does not support V2).</p> <p>The next step was to search online for hints since I’m definitely not the first to tackle this problem. I stumbled across this website <a href="http://anandmanisankar.com/">here</a> which actually did something better. Instead of creating multiple blogs you can instead <strong>tag posts and then organize everything with tags</strong>. So I basically grabbed portions that I wanted and inserted it into the blog. I did make a lot of modifications, but I would rather not drone on about those changes. Ultimately, the blog now supports tags and the display is collapsable to avoid clutter (I need to figure out how my advisor got the cool buttons on his page). It will be nice to be able to upload notes here now to just be more easily accessible to me (the tag search feature is really nice).</p> <p>Summary of things I did</p> <ul> <li>Jekyll doesn’t support separating blog posts :\</li> <li>Trying to hack Jekyll to support multiple blog categories was not fun</li> <li>Stumbled across this <a href="http://anandmanisankar.com/">website</a> and grab the fun code</li> <li>Initially started with the default blog post page and an archive page</li> <li>Found that after expanding pagination to 5 there were ghost pages where “Reading” pages weren’t displayed (by design)</li> <li>Decided I hated the ghost pages and switched directions</li> <li>Combined all the blog pages into one to make the sidebar easy to read</li> <li>Blog page was now wayyyyy too cluttered</li> <li>Solution to clutter –&gt; collapsable categories :D</li> <li>Added the “See All” section to just make it easier to search stuff</li> <li>Starting to write lots and lots of stuff to put online</li> </ul> <p>ʘ‿ʘ</p> 2023-11-22T00:00:00-08:00 https://urd00m.github.io/general/2023/11/22/omegaball <p>My team Ankle Insurance is the first and only UIUC omega ball intramural champions winning the finals with a clutch last minute goal to make it 4-3-3. :D</p> <p>Winning a very nice shirt I should add.</p> 2023-09-17T00:00:00-07:00 https://urd00m.github.io/general/2023/09/17/first-olympic <p>First olympic triathlon!</p> <p>Final time: 3:02:13.8 <br /> Swim time: 27:38.48<br /> T1: 1:51.73<br /> Bike time: 1:24:14.66<br /> T2: 25.45<br /> Run: 1:08:03.48<br /> Link: <a href="https://runsignup.com/Race/Results/147537/IndividualResult/qkDd?resultSetId=406037#U79273453">here</a></p> <p>The energy drink I had started to come up on the run and that completely tanked my performance on the run :(. For the future I know I need to bring some more water to dilute it so that doesn’t happen again (target pace was 8 minute miles but ended up being around ~11). My swim and bike times were right where I wanted them to be though.</p> 2023-09-16T00:00:00-07:00 https://urd00m.github.io/general/2023/09/16/dark-site <p>Pictures from visiting the darksite! Very cool!</p> <p>Just a note if you click this button -&gt; <strong><a href="/general/2023/09/16/dark-site.html">here</a></strong> &lt;- it will dark out the screen to make it easier to the dark pictures see ;)</p> <p>THIS TOOK FOREVER TO IMPLEMENT OMG. –&gt; I had to create a custom theme and have it only switch to that dark theme, for some reason the title and my name kept dissappear so that also took some hacking.</p> <p><img src="/assets/images/dark1.JPG" alt="dark 1" /> <img src="/assets/images/dark2.JPG" alt="dark 2" /> <img src="/assets/images/dark3.JPG" alt="dark 3" /> <img src="/assets/images/dark4.JPG" alt="dark 4" /></p> 2023-09-02T00:00:00-07:00 https://urd00m.github.io/general/2023/09/02/first-post <p>After much debating I have decided to make a website. This site is built on the Jekyll Lanyon theme, you can find the template <a href="https://github.com/poole/lanyon">here</a>.</p> <p>The bugs <i class="fa fa-bug" style="color: #000000;"></i></p> <ul> <li>After an hour of playing around with <a href="https://aksakalli.github.io/jekyll-doc-theme/docs/font-awesome/">fontawesome</a> I finally got icons (but they aren’t animiated sadly)</li> <li>I didn’t like the blog being on the homepage so I moved it to a “blog” page. To my surprise after doing this for each blog post it would add a new link to the side bar navigation. That was rather annoying to try to fix…</li> <li>I tried to crop my profile picture to be circular. After searching around to do this in HTML I coudn’t find anything (i.e. I found how to do it but didn’t want to do it that way). So I did what any sane person would have started with and just cropped the image using this <a href="https://crop-circle.imageonline.co/">site</a>.</li> <li>Turns out __ doesn’t do italics but this _ does :\</li> <li>Still need to add the papers I’ve read hehe</li> <li>I also need to upgrade my favicon, it’s a little basic and I used this <a href="https://favicon.io/">site</a> to create it.</li> <li>Turns out if the config URL is wrong the theme won’t load and the website looks really janky</li> <li>I’m sure there is more somewhere…</li> </ul> <p>ʘ‿ʘ <!-- https://github.com/dysfunc/ascii-emoji --></p>