Sometimes boring explorations into a world of software and beyond.https://sadman.ca/https://sadman.ca/blog/what-i-read-in-2025/https://sadman.ca/blog/what-i-read-in-2025/My favourite books of 2025 (and others).Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/what-i-watched-in-2025/https://sadman.ca/blog/what-i-watched-in-2025/My favourite TV shows and movies of 2025 (and others).Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/blaugust-2025-retrospective/https://sadman.ca/blog/blaugust-2025-retrospective/Bit of a bust.Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/its-ok-to-take-it-easy-sometimes/https://sadman.ca/blog/its-ok-to-take-it-easy-sometimes/Rest isn’t lazy. It’s part of living well.Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/you-can-just-do-things/https://sadman.ca/blog/you-can-just-do-things/The simplest truth about life that we all forget sometimes.Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/uoft-work-study-jobs-2025-2026/https://sadman.ca/blog/uoft-work-study-jobs-2025-2026/Another year, another custom dashboard for work study job postings.Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/a-late-start-to-blaugust-2025/https://sadman.ca/blog/a-late-start-to-blaugust-2025/Getting involved in a new month-long blog challenge, with only half the month to go.Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/going-to-the-gym-for-the-first-time-again/https://sadman.ca/blog/going-to-the-gym-for-the-first-time-again/How I started going back to the gym for the first time in a long time.Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/find-joy-in-the-boring-bits-of-life/https://sadman.ca/blog/find-joy-in-the-boring-bits-of-life/Embrace whimsy in your everyday.Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/ece496-timeline/https://sadman.ca/blog/ece496-timeline/A comprehensive timeline of the UofT engineering capstone design project course (ECE496) experience from team formation to final presentation.Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/how-to-use-goodreads-data-in-astro/https://sadman.ca/blog/how-to-use-goodreads-data-in-astro/Using the Astro Content Loader API to get data from Goodreads bookshelves and dynamically build Goodreads components in Astro.Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/uoft-ece-upper-year-course-reviews/https://sadman.ca/blog/uoft-ece-upper-year-course-reviews/What upper-year courses you should take as a UofT ECE student (and what to watch out for when planning on Magellan).Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/what-i-watched-in-2024/https://sadman.ca/blog/what-i-watched-in-2024/My favourite TV shows and movies of 2024 (and others).Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/what-i-read-in-2024/https://sadman.ca/blog/what-i-read-in-2024/My favourite books of 2024 (and others).Sun, 29 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/pey-coop-jobs-at-uoft/https://sadman.ca/blog/pey-coop-jobs-at-uoft/Taking 10 MB of UofT PEY Co-op job posting data (2000+ jobs) & displaying postings on a redesigned modern dashboard (for future students to have a better idea of what to expect).Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/work-study-at-uoft/https://sadman.ca/blog/work-study-at-uoft/UofT's Work Study program is a gem for finding part-time work; here's why you should apply (and how you can use my redesigned dashboard for viewing jobs).Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/software-showcase-01-asciinema/https://sadman.ca/blog/software-showcase-01-asciinema/CLI tools for recording terminal sessions locally (and to the web) as asciicast files (.cast), GIFs, and animated SVGs.Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/analyzing-pey-postings-part-1/https://sadman.ca/blog/analyzing-pey-postings-part-1/Collecting unstructured data on 2k+ job postings from UofT's PEY Co-op job board & pipelining to a single SQLite database less than 10 MB in size.Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/how-to-put-20k+-words-on-a-cheatsheet/https://sadman.ca/blog/how-to-put-20k+-words-on-a-cheatsheet/The art of maximizing content on a cheatsheet while maintaining readability using the cutting-edge in type-setting technology (ala Typst).Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/advice-for-high-school-freshmen/https://sadman.ca/blog/advice-for-high-school-freshmen/What I would’ve told myself back then if I could do so now.Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/my-old-vs-code-setup/https://sadman.ca/blog/my-old-vs-code-setup/Some snippets of tools I used to use back in my first year of university (and some that I still do too).Sat, 09 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/a-guide-to-learning/https://sadman.ca/blog/a-guide-to-learning/Better alternatives to rote memorization (also known as cramming the night before an exam)Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/why-i-use-trello/https://sadman.ca/blog/why-i-use-trello/Everybody needs a system for making their to do list; Trello is mine.Mon, 09 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/how-i-deal-with-email/https://sadman.ca/blog/how-i-deal-with-email/People loathe the experience of email. Here's my system of dealing with it.Sat, 03 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/coming-up-with-good-ideas/https://sadman.ca/blog/coming-up-with-good-ideas/Coming up with good ideas can be tough, but the real magic lies in the process, not just the outcome.Fri, 25 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://sadman.ca/blog/on-keeping-a-journal/https://sadman.ca/blog/on-keeping-a-journal/Why you should be writing if you aren't already.Mon, 17 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT