Learning to be good at thinking, thinking, thinking.

Table Here’s a table of the vowels in English. Symbol Word Transcription More Examples [i:] fee [fi:] she, cream, believe, receive, heed, meet [ɪ] fit [fɪt] hit, income, definition, been (for some) [u:] boot [b... Read More

Table Here’s a table of the consonants in English. Manner Voicing Symbol Word Transcription More Examples Plosives/Stops Voiceless [p] pat [pæt] put, post, apart, spar     [t] tie [taɪ] type, stem, nast... Read More

& ampersand, epershand or and @ at % percent / slash, forward slash, oblique, solidus, stroke or division \ backslash . period(US), full stop(UK) or dot * asterisk, multiplication or star ~ tilde _ underscore + plus - minus, hyphen or dash = equal... Read More

Internet users have developed many slang terms over the years. Here is a collection in my daily learning: Shorthands AAMOF - As a matter of fact ABT - About ADN - Any day now AFK - Away from keyboard AMA - Ask me anything ADIH - Another day in hell AFAIC - As far as I’m concerned; as far as I care; as far as I can AFAIK - As f... Read More

Basics Pitch Beats Sound range Usually the vocal range of a song is only about one octave of the vocal range, and the two vocal ranges are already very wide. Breath (lung capacity) pronunciation (relaxed throat) The key is how to stabilize the vocal position (i.e. larynx position), that ... Read More

If you spend a lot of time typing plain text or writing programs, you can save much of that time by using a good editor and using it effectively. That’s the one big reason you need to learn Vim well. Learning Approaches To learn vim like a wise man, the following approaches are extremely helpful for you. Online Tutorials There’re many articl... Read More

Table As Bash use Emacs mode, here’s a table of the shortcuts in Bash. Shortcuts Description ctrl-a Go to the start of a line (Home) ctrl-e Go to the end of a line (End) ctrl-u Delete from cursor to the start of a line ctrl-k Dele... Read More

You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated. To add new posts, simply add a file in the _posts dire... Read More