Hi, I'm Kingston Tsai
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about me
Hi, I'm Kingston, as you probably deduced. I go by some variations of prestopy /ˈpɹɛstoʊpi/ on the internet (prestopy, daprestopy, daprestopie, etc.). Fun fact, for a surprisingly long time when I was around five, I became obsessed with double-acting spring hinge doors (the kind of doors that could open both ways). I would sit there, no joke, and just stare at them (all while figuring out how to pronounce the 'th' in 'three'.
ASIDE: People tell me I have a very particular writing style— apparently I go on tangents. You know that joke about having seven trains on four tracks, and all the conductors are just screaming? Yeah, that’s me. You can imagine how annoying this becomes when I’m trying to write an academic or more formal piece of writing. The tangential thinking just does not work out. At all. I hate those forms of writing so much I even wrote an entire article about how essays suck for me.
I really enjoy programming, reading, blasting music, watching the intros for movies, and believe it or not, touching grass. Sometimes I run, though I’m not very good at it, but most of the time, I just take a nice, scenic stroll. The universe is awesome (sometimes).
what i'm working on right now
Asdf — A todo list app built from scratch by myself so that I actually use it
I am not an organized person. At all. I procrastinate a lot, even on just the smallest things. In an attempt to remedy this, I've tried Apple's Reminders app, Todoist, and a bunch of other minimalistic todo apps but to no avail. Eventually, I realized that it wasn't the apps that were ineffective. It was me. So I a few months ago, I began work on Asdf, a todo app. The rationale is that if I create it myself, I'll be much more inclined to use it and thus, stay organized. I'd also be able to add whatever I want without worrying about how others' might use it, because this app was built by me, for me.
my most recent thought
I’m scared of change. I mean, I never thought I was.
But the level of change that AI is bringing is on a whole new level. I never thought that the path I wanted to pursue would be taken over by computers. Of course, that never was completely out of the picture. Programming is the perfect ground for AI to excel in. Everything is logical with strict guidelines as to what and where each and every word should be. The subjectivity comes in styling decisions or the approach to which problem is solved, but that only really matters as long as humans will interact with the code.
(cool) stuff
rainbow mode? (possible epilepsy warning)