Category: other
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About my site theme
Feel free to “inspect element” in your browser or view the repo to see how the styling is done. A word of warning, it’s pretty disorganized and definitely unoptimized.
Besides my personal website, the only project where I was heavily involved in the web design was UMD Puzzlehunt. I enjoyed playing around with CSS there and thought it was a useful skill, so I had been meaning to learn more. I wanted to share a bit of the process in creating the theme, which is modified from Jekyll’s default theme, Minima (v2.5 specifically).
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It’s harder to write K-pop trivia than I expected
A couple of months back, I wrote a K-pop-themed Pointless-style quiz for a few friends. I’ll reproduce each question here just before each corresponding section. The questions draw heavy inspiration from a Pokémon-themed quiz I took part in, authored by lovemathboy. They deserve all the credit for their creativity in writing the questions. I had fun with the Pokémon quiz and wanted to create something fun and new for my friends. Plus, I hadn’t written puzzles in a while and I was itching to create something puzzle-adjacent I could release. I re-hashed the questions with a K-pop theme, but it wasn’t as simple as I had assumed—I ended up with a lot of observations of K-pop culture and media along the way. This blog post is essentially my constructor’s notes and unstructured observations, but I’m using it to explore K-pop as a cultural phenomenon by examining its potential for generating decent trivia questions.