Omar Tsai

So I started using Neovim-- So recently, I started getting into Neovim after being convinced by some people, watching more of "theprimeagen" and seeing how cool it could be. I still vividly remember that one time I saw a co-worker navigate through scripts with only his keyboard and thought to myself -- "wow if only I could do that". My relationship with Vim has been, more or less to say, hot & cold. I started using vim back in 2018 on my first job. Installing Nerdtree, learning the hjkl  commands, learning the different shortcuts that could be done in vim. However, quickly I realized that my productivity with Vim went down way too much to be useful so I went back to VSCode shortly after. Ever since then, I'd use vim only to quickly edit files in the terminal, but never as my main editor. Fast forward to today, I decided to give vim another try. This time, with Neovim. I went fully into the Neovim universe -- installing lazy, plugins, themes, LSP, you name it

最近想要寫一個中文的post! 不知道到底要寫甚麼, 但是就是覺得好像寫一寫可能會跟多加強我的中文能力 哈哈😅. Anyways! 最近回溫哥華, 真的感覺好像完全沒離開的感覺. 畢竟我人生大部分的時間都是在溫哥華. 回想起來, 我覺得渥太華其實很像溫哥華. 兩個都市都很漂亮, 很舒服. 難怪我當時會選擇去渥太華工作和住! 最近我的github 程序被100多個人按星星了! 讓我很開心 :) 感覺好像我對網路安全這個世界貢獻了一點小東西. That's about it for now! 我最喜歡的景色 -- 以前在這裡工作都好舒服 -- 現在回來就想起當年的記憶~

Reflection on this past month It's coming to the end of April! April showers bring May flowers -- as they usually say. What I'm seeing is more showers + flurries. Never in my life would I have imagined that it would snow almost in May! Back in Vancouver, it was mostly just rain with the occasional sun that would pop out.  --- I really do miss the rain. I'd love to just work while it's thunderstorming outside. I want to feel like I'm forced indoors, in a cozy environment drinking my warm mocha, while programming or just writing away.  Life this past month has been exciting! I've been going out more, taking on more things to do in both my personal life and work life, and overall just trying to put myself out there. Life is becoming colourful again. Meeting new people, making new friends, and getting new perspectives on life. I found myself starting to have random chitchat with strangers these days. Whether it's to feel a sense of connectedness, or just a frien

Hello world! Just here, typing away. It's midnight now. I locked Koshi out of my room for tonight, he's just a bit too hyper. Work has been fun. My personal life -- ruled by my cat and personal development. I'm not sure what to write here actually. As I'm typing, I hear Koshi tossing around toys in the living room. Not inclined to any particular topic, these days I've felt very free. Free to pursue my own interests or just binge time into research topics on cars and the inner workings of engines. I feel like recently, I've found myself again. The Omar that was so curious from back in high school. The one that just went down rabbit holes in Wikipedia and YouTube researching topics that piqued his interest. I find glimpses of that Omar, through all the adult responsibilities that he has to do, lies the same but inexperienced boy. Social media -- while super useful, is a competition. A competition of "Who's getting married" or "Who's going on

Happy Chinese New Years! 新年快樂! Ice dragon sculpture in Ottawa It's the start of a new lunar year! I'm writing this on 初三, which means 3 days since the new year has started! This year, I didn't do much for Lunar New Year since I'm here in Ottawa now. Usually, I would go to a temple in Vancouver to pray, but there are no Buddhist temples here in Ottawa 😅. You see, my family is quite spiritual - as in. Growing up, my parents would always take us either to Buddhist temples or Christian churches to pray. I even attended Sunday school growing up! The value of tradition holds strongly in my family, and we always try to be honest with any spiritual being, whether that be God or Mazu.  Aside from tradition, we'd usually have hotpot or the like at home! Which, of course now that everyone is scattered across the world, we can't really do that anymore! But that's ok! We of course had a call and just had fun chatting with each other.  It was also in this new year that I