There was once an old system that did things. It did those things well for five years; but then one day, it stopped doing some of the things.

A while back we decided to do another consultation game in a boba cafe. This was MingJiu’s review.

An interesting question popped up at work the other day: how to detect if a column in MySQL contains Korean characters?

Growing up in a Hong Kongese family that had recently immigrated to the US was always confusing. I had really only just grasped enough Cantonese to function in a Chinese kindergarden before being transplanted to an English one in the states. Combining this with an even younger sister meant that conversation our household was a hodge-podge of English in the Chinese word order, misused Chinese phrases, and so forth. Looking back on it now, it’s very interesting sifting through our heritage vocabulary and phrasing to trace the roots of our family.

In our third installment of reviews with MingJiu, we go over a game I played against a random person at the Montreal Go Club. This game was especially painfully for me to show MingJiu having not even realized a blunder.