When I started working on EvE end of November, I didn’t expect it to take this long. I knew that it would be quite an ordeal, but the optimistic side of me still, at the time, underestimated the challenges to come, on both technical and psychological levels. Now, on the…

When I learned about Jeremy Bentham for the very first time many years ago, it had nothing to do with his ideas on utilitarianism. I stumbled upon a picture of his auto-icon on the internet and was frankly overwhelmed. Although my immediate reaction at the time was to close the…

Elaborating on the Wheel model, Renaissance and Dawn — The largest working water wheel in the world is located in a village named Laxey on The Isle of Man; hence the name: Laxey Wheel. Built in 1854, it’s still operational till this day, featuring a 72-foot-6-inch (22.1 m) diameter and the delivery capacity of 250 imperial gallons (in approximately…

The first ever intellectual shock came when I was anxiously sitting in my Philosophy 101 class. I wasn’t anxious about the actual class itself — philosophy seemed like an abstract, ancient but still “passable” subject for a young college student that had no prior experience with metaphysics; I was anxious…

(Please note that Lova has been renamed to LOVN. Robyn, 2023) In 50 years or so, what are some of the technologies from our time that the first-year computer science students are going to giggle at? Some of their professors are probably going to be a bit annoyed because they…

I’d basically decided to name the next version of MOFFAS Panta Rhei, over the last couple of days, so it was such a wild and surreal feeling just now when I randomly flipped open a book the poem on that page was called In Heraclitus’s River. The book was a…

I had a good laugh reading my last blog. I can’t even remember the last time I had that much explosive “passion” (O.K. I do remember now — it was 2019 when the Toronto Raptors won the Championship and I was screaming at my cats ecstatically for a long while)…

I had been struggling with the identity of MOFFAS ever since I decided to take the project a little further than just leaving it as a plugin nobody used or heard of over a year ago. The struggle was not with the lack of exposure, marketing and or anything in…

(Notes: this ends up being the most difficult thing I’ve written in the last ten years. I definitely struggled. While I am not satisfied with it, I am still posting it because it gives me more motivation and urgency to come back and edit it. …