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Interactive 3D Solar System

Explore an accelerated Three.js model of the solar system.

Delicious in Dungeon

One of the best world-building I’ve ever seen in anime. Every piece of the world in this dungeon is explained. It amazed me that that was even possible. There were several instances where I thought, oh they didn’t explain this bit, but that’s okay, since I can’t...

Solo Leveling

Solo Leveling was voted as the crunchyroll best anime of the year. Which is such a let down, considering all the great anime that came out alongside Solo Leveling. Here is trends graph of Attack on Titan vs Solo Leveling and Frieren. Attack on Titan is a show everyone knows of at this...

Clannad

I watched this since it was so highly rated, I figured the series would be absolutely amazing by the end perhaps. But I truly don’t know. I’m watching Clannad After-Story at this point, and the show is quite boring. The best part about the show to me is how un-addicting it is. It...

Fate/Zero

Has really really nice fight scenes, and the story is cool, sound tracks are cool, action sequences are awesome. Each noble phantasm and their summoners have different powers and limitations. And everyone is one mistake away from death. The limitations along with their varying ideologies make...

Land of the Lustrous

One of the best world building I’ve seen in anime. Studio orange who animated this kinda stood out with it’s choice to heavily rely on CGI. But it is largely agreed that it was a fantastic decision considering how well this anime turned out. The character development was so good in...

Re:Monster

I had high hopes for this anime, since I’d read the manga quite a bit and liked it a lot. It had all these cool terms and designations for different types of lords and beasts. Something I really liked about the story was how the main character would build things which would end up making...

The Water Magician

Decent animation. The story is rather peaceful at the start, and I was somehow reminded of Frieren. Later on, I found out that there really wasn’t all that much behind the anime in terms of story. It was simply, there’s this really strong water mage, because he’s the main...

Gachiakuta

I wasn’t sure I would like this, but decided to give it a shot anyway since the trailer received a lot of attention. The first episode was alright and I was somewhat impressed by how well the animation studio made use of the short run-time. After the first episode though, it quality of...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba The Movie: Infinity Castle

This is not a real movie, it’s simply several episodes stitched together into something that has a movie-like runtime. I was so disappointed by how little the series managed to cover. The movie went into one sad backstory after the other. And ended up taking too much runtime. I wish I...

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Air Quality

I’ve been thinking of air recently. Specifically the air quality in my room. Every time I come back home, the house air in the house feels distinctly stale, like it’s lacking in circulation, and a little moist. I have a few flatmates and the HVAC system cuts off after getting to the...

F1

Rush is so much better. But this was good too. The movie felt like watching an actual F1 race, but I was only about as excited as an actual race could make me. I consider this a negative, as I couldn’t find much that validated the movie’s existence. While the film was...

Hackathons might be Dying

I’ve attended few hackathons, often through ASU, and they’ve painted a disappointing picture of what hackathons are or have become. Online, especially in memes, hackathons are often portrayed as high-energy events full of incredibly skilled, competitive developers building impressive prototypes...

Feed My Starving Children: How Good Design and Engineering makes Goodwill Scalable

I had an opportunity to volunteer at Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), and I came away amazed not just by their achievements, but by how well they’ve built everything around their mission. Most nonprofits struggle to balance compassion with coordination, but FMSC has somehow mastered both....

The Queen’s Gambit

Violet Evergarden

Violet Evergarden is one of the most remarkable anime series in recent memory, distinguished not only by its visual elegance but also by its thematic depth. At its core, the series is a meditation on grief, healing, and the struggle to communicate emotions that often feel inexpressible. Nearly...

Superman 2025

This was a surprisingly fun Superman movie to watch. There were a few reused shots toward the end, especially in the scene where Superman and Lois Lane were lifted into the air, but that didn’t take away too much from the experience. What I liked most was how this Superman wasn’t presented...

Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra

A good movie. Quite well directed. The script used was simple but good. They did have to make several languages work together, which was done well. I wasn’t a fan of how it ended, since it’s acted as the launchpad for a whole series of movies, instead of being one great movie....

Mob Psycho 100

I wonder show I’ve been avoiding for silly reasons. I wish I’d watched it sooner. It’s well animated with a good and meaningful story you’d want to see. One of the highlights for me was the fight sequence near the end between Dimple, the once-evil-turned-good spirit, and...

Hackathons might be Dying

I’ve attended few hackathons, often through ASU, and they’ve painted a disappointing picture of what hackathons are or have become. Online, especially in memes, hackathons are often portrayed as high-energy events full of incredibly skilled, competitive developers building impressive prototypes...

Feed My Starving Children: How Good Design and Engineering makes Goodwill Scalable

I had an opportunity to volunteer at Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), and I came away amazed not just by their achievements, but by how well they’ve built everything around their mission. Most nonprofits struggle to balance compassion with coordination, but FMSC has somehow mastered both....

Hackathons might be Dying

I’ve attended few hackathons, often through ASU, and they’ve painted a disappointing picture of what hackathons are or have become. Online, especially in memes, hackathons are often portrayed as high-energy events full of incredibly skilled, competitive developers building impressive prototypes...

Introversion isn’t real

Introversion and Extroversion Might Not Be What You Think We’ve all heard of introverts, extroverts, and now, ambiverts — people who fall somewhere in between. But what if these labels don’t fully capture what’s really going on? What if your “vertedness” has less to do with your...

People Love Numbers and Stats

Having good tracking and feedback leads to great progress. I’ve noticed that people work really hard on tasks when it is very evident exactly how something can be changed or improved or if there is at least an illusion of such evidence. In school, children are measured on a number of...

CEO’s Affair turns into Great Marketing?

Recently Astronomer ex-CEO Andy Byron was caught on camera having a mistress unknown to his wife. The internet went crazy about this, and we had thousands to maybe millions of people discussing how he was wrong to cheat of his wife etc. But really it doesn’t matter to anyone. Why do you...

Introversion isn’t real

Introversion and Extroversion Might Not Be What You Think We’ve all heard of introverts, extroverts, and now, ambiverts — people who fall somewhere in between. But what if these labels don’t fully capture what’s really going on? What if your “vertedness” has less to do with your...

Introversion isn’t real

Introversion and Extroversion Might Not Be What You Think We’ve all heard of introverts, extroverts, and now, ambiverts — people who fall somewhere in between. But what if these labels don’t fully capture what’s really going on? What if your “vertedness” has less to do with your...

People Love Numbers and Stats

Having good tracking and feedback leads to great progress. I’ve noticed that people work really hard on tasks when it is very evident exactly how something can be changed or improved or if there is at least an illusion of such evidence. In school, children are measured on a number of...

CEO’s Affair turns into Great Marketing?

Recently Astronomer ex-CEO Andy Byron was caught on camera having a mistress unknown to his wife. The internet went crazy about this, and we had thousands to maybe millions of people discussing how he was wrong to cheat of his wife etc. But really it doesn’t matter to anyone. Why do you...

Hackathons might be Dying

I’ve attended few hackathons, often through ASU, and they’ve painted a disappointing picture of what hackathons are or have become. Online, especially in memes, hackathons are often portrayed as high-energy events full of incredibly skilled, competitive developers building impressive prototypes...

Feed My Starving Children: How Good Design and Engineering makes Goodwill Scalable

I had an opportunity to volunteer at Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), and I came away amazed not just by their achievements, but by how well they’ve built everything around their mission. Most nonprofits struggle to balance compassion with coordination, but FMSC has somehow mastered both....

Why WordPress Still Dominates: Lessons from Building an E-commerce Site

I recently built an e-commerce site for a clothing business using WordPress, and the experience left me genuinely impressed by what this platform offers out of the box. As developers, we sometimes get caught up in the latest frameworks and technologies, but this project reminded me why WordPress...

Building a Fitness app myself, since AI couldn’t handle it

In my last article on coding with AI, I was very impressed by the output produced by AI code gen tools and the speed at which these tools allowed us to prototype. Here is that article for reference: https://www.explosion.fun/blog/post/rebuilding-my-website-with-ai/ This time I was much more...

Rebuilding my website – With AI!

I’ve been trying to replace myself with AI since chat-based AI tools first started coming out. When ChatGpt came onto the scene, I was so excited! Sam Altman and every LLM model company CEO told us that AI would replace all jobs and that our productivity would skyrocket. I loved it....

Delicious in Dungeon

One of the best world-building I’ve ever seen in anime. Every piece of the world in this dungeon is explained. It amazed me that that was even possible. There were several instances where I thought, oh they didn’t explain this bit, but that’s okay, since I can’t...

Solo Leveling

Solo Leveling was voted as the crunchyroll best anime of the year. Which is such a let down, considering all the great anime that came out alongside Solo Leveling. Here is trends graph of Attack on Titan vs Solo Leveling and Frieren. Attack on Titan is a show everyone knows of at this...

Clannad

I watched this since it was so highly rated, I figured the series would be absolutely amazing by the end perhaps. But I truly don’t know. I’m watching Clannad After-Story at this point, and the show is quite boring. The best part about the show to me is how un-addicting it is. It...

Fate/Zero

Has really really nice fight scenes, and the story is cool, sound tracks are cool, action sequences are awesome. Each noble phantasm and their summoners have different powers and limitations. And everyone is one mistake away from death. The limitations along with their varying ideologies make...

Land of the Lustrous

One of the best world building I’ve seen in anime. Studio orange who animated this kinda stood out with it’s choice to heavily rely on CGI. But it is largely agreed that it was a fantastic decision considering how well this anime turned out. The character development was so good in...

Re:Monster

I had high hopes for this anime, since I’d read the manga quite a bit and liked it a lot. It had all these cool terms and designations for different types of lords and beasts. Something I really liked about the story was how the main character would build things which would end up making...

The Water Magician

Decent animation. The story is rather peaceful at the start, and I was somehow reminded of Frieren. Later on, I found out that there really wasn’t all that much behind the anime in terms of story. It was simply, there’s this really strong water mage, because he’s the main...

Gachiakuta

I wasn’t sure I would like this, but decided to give it a shot anyway since the trailer received a lot of attention. The first episode was alright and I was somewhat impressed by how well the animation studio made use of the short run-time. After the first episode though, it quality of...

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Violet Evergarden

Violet Evergarden is one of the most remarkable anime series in recent memory, distinguished not only by its visual elegance but also by its thematic depth. At its core, the series is a meditation on grief, healing, and the struggle to communicate emotions that often feel inexpressible. Nearly...

Mob Psycho 100

I wonder show I’ve been avoiding for silly reasons. I wish I’d watched it sooner. It’s well animated with a good and meaningful story you’d want to see. One of the highlights for me was the fight sequence near the end between Dimple, the once-evil-turned-good spirit, and...

Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World

Good show

Vinland Saga

Exhilarating! At least season 1 was. Season two was kinda lame though, I waited on and on for the action to start and nothing happened. It had character development for sure, but it wasn’t developed at a reasonable pace. Basically nothing happens in Season 2 besides bunch of farming

I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability

Trash. Didn’t finish it, don’t plan to. And what a stupid name as well!

Blue Eye Samurai

Masterpiece! This is one of the best pieces of entertainment I’ve seen in 2025. Though it was released in 2023 December. While this isn’t considered anime technically, within the list there are animated series produced in Japan, China, the West and many other areas. So this...

Demon Slayer

I am not the biggest fan on how this show is animated nor do I think it is the some of the best animation I’ve seen. But I guess they’ve done some cool animation sequences, and I know hundreds or maybe even thousands of videos have been made about the amazing animation seen in Demon...

Sakamoto Days

Recently I’ve been noticing how shows built on one or two quirks quickly become boring. The quirk or funny bit might be very engaging initially, but it quickly loses it’s charm, and immediately becomes rather boring. Sakamoto Days suffers from this issue. It’s very funny at...

Orb: On the Movements of the Earth

It was too dark to figure out what’s going on. This was most scenes, ugh! They were all too dark. And in between there would a scene which would be too bright, and the screen would be at max brightness because every other scene was too dark and the bright scenes would burn my corneas...

Lord of Mysteries

Why the hell was this show so dark? I couldn’t see anything without cranking the display brightness up to the max! But when I do that the bright scenes would appear blindingly bright. Ugh! Every time a show does this, I loose interest after a few episodes. There will be scenes that are...

Ranma 1/2 (2024)

Super cute anime that is really fun you watch. But this anime is built around one little quirk, and once you get used to that quirk, it’s a less engaging. The quirk is that the father-son duo can turn into a panda-girl duo if splashed with cold water. This quirk is really funny and...

Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines

Visually Stunning, But Lacking in Substance Makeine delivers shockingly high-quality animation for a series that hasn’t quite broken into mainstream popularity. Some shots are so incredibly beautiful, it’s hard to believe this much talent was dedicated to a show with such a simple premise....

Lazarus

An extremely well animated, well dubbed, well choreographed and well directed waste of my time. It didn’t matter how well every other piece was crafted, at the end of the day the story was mediocre and was told poorly told. Almost every episode felt like a filler episode, only slightly aiding...

Cromartie High School

Dorohedoro

Unique! From the starting to the end Dorohedoro has been so unique in almost every way that you just want to keep watching and see what happens next. The world is so different, so violent and so mysterious, but so believable. The world building in Dorohedoro is fantastic. Caiman has a...

Chainsaw Man

One Piece

Attack on Titan

Akira

Devilman Crybaby

Frieren

To be filled in later

Delicious in Dungeon

One of the best world-building I’ve ever seen in anime. Every piece of the world in this dungeon is explained. It amazed me that that was even possible. There were several instances where I thought, oh they didn’t explain this bit, but that’s okay, since I can’t...

Solo Leveling

Solo Leveling was voted as the crunchyroll best anime of the year. Which is such a let down, considering all the great anime that came out alongside Solo Leveling. Here is trends graph of Attack on Titan vs Solo Leveling and Frieren. Attack on Titan is a show everyone knows of at this...

Clannad

I watched this since it was so highly rated, I figured the series would be absolutely amazing by the end perhaps. But I truly don’t know. I’m watching Clannad After-Story at this point, and the show is quite boring. The best part about the show to me is how un-addicting it is. It...

Fate/Zero

Has really really nice fight scenes, and the story is cool, sound tracks are cool, action sequences are awesome. Each noble phantasm and their summoners have different powers and limitations. And everyone is one mistake away from death. The limitations along with their varying ideologies make...

Land of the Lustrous

One of the best world building I’ve seen in anime. Studio orange who animated this kinda stood out with it’s choice to heavily rely on CGI. But it is largely agreed that it was a fantastic decision considering how well this anime turned out. The character development was so good in...

Re:Monster

I had high hopes for this anime, since I’d read the manga quite a bit and liked it a lot. It had all these cool terms and designations for different types of lords and beasts. Something I really liked about the story was how the main character would build things which would end up making...

The Water Magician

Decent animation. The story is rather peaceful at the start, and I was somehow reminded of Frieren. Later on, I found out that there really wasn’t all that much behind the anime in terms of story. It was simply, there’s this really strong water mage, because he’s the main...

Gachiakuta

I wasn’t sure I would like this, but decided to give it a shot anyway since the trailer received a lot of attention. The first episode was alright and I was somewhat impressed by how well the animation studio made use of the short run-time. After the first episode though, it quality of...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba The Movie: Infinity Castle

This is not a real movie, it’s simply several episodes stitched together into something that has a movie-like runtime. I was so disappointed by how little the series managed to cover. The movie went into one sad backstory after the other. And ended up taking too much runtime. I wish I...

Link Click

F1

Rush is so much better. But this was good too. The movie felt like watching an actual F1 race, but I was only about as excited as an actual race could make me. I consider this a negative, as I couldn’t find much that validated the movie’s existence. While the film was...

The Queen’s Gambit

Violet Evergarden

Violet Evergarden is one of the most remarkable anime series in recent memory, distinguished not only by its visual elegance but also by its thematic depth. At its core, the series is a meditation on grief, healing, and the struggle to communicate emotions that often feel inexpressible. Nearly...

Superman 2025

This was a surprisingly fun Superman movie to watch. There were a few reused shots toward the end, especially in the scene where Superman and Lois Lane were lifted into the air, but that didn’t take away too much from the experience. What I liked most was how this Superman wasn’t presented...

Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra

A good movie. Quite well directed. The script used was simple but good. They did have to make several languages work together, which was done well. I wasn’t a fan of how it ended, since it’s acted as the launchpad for a whole series of movies, instead of being one great movie....

Mob Psycho 100

I wonder show I’ve been avoiding for silly reasons. I wish I’d watched it sooner. It’s well animated with a good and meaningful story you’d want to see. One of the highlights for me was the fight sequence near the end between Dimple, the once-evil-turned-good spirit, and...

The World God Only Knows

This manga, when I finished reading it, I hoped I could forget about, so that I could read it all over again. The anime version though didn’t strike me the same way. The main character calls himself the god of conquest. Conqueror of the hearts of women, in dating simulator games.....

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Way too rushed and built around performing stunts. The script sucks. The story telling is bad. Some people die and you couldn’t care less. Tom Cruise keeps doing things that are straight up impossible. I know it’s called Mission Impossible, where the plot is Tom Cruise doing...

The Naked Gun (2025)

Unsatisfying. The best part of this movie was that it ended quickly.

Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World

Good show

Vinland Saga

Exhilarating! At least season 1 was. Season two was kinda lame though, I waited on and on for the action to start and nothing happened. It had character development for sure, but it wasn’t developed at a reasonable pace. Basically nothing happens in Season 2 besides bunch of farming

The Northman

Spectacular!

I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability

Trash. Didn’t finish it, don’t plan to. And what a stupid name as well!

Blue Eye Samurai

Masterpiece! This is one of the best pieces of entertainment I’ve seen in 2025. Though it was released in 2023 December. While this isn’t considered anime technically, within the list there are animated series produced in Japan, China, the West and many other areas. So this...

Demon Slayer

I am not the biggest fan on how this show is animated nor do I think it is the some of the best animation I’ve seen. But I guess they’ve done some cool animation sequences, and I know hundreds or maybe even thousands of videos have been made about the amazing animation seen in Demon...

Sakamoto Days

Recently I’ve been noticing how shows built on one or two quirks quickly become boring. The quirk or funny bit might be very engaging initially, but it quickly loses it’s charm, and immediately becomes rather boring. Sakamoto Days suffers from this issue. It’s very funny at...

Blame!

Netflix made a movie out of Blame! ! And it’s pretty good! While the movie couldn’t cover too much of the story, it still managed to get me and others interested in Blame!. The animation was pretty great. While there was heavy use of CGI, it still looked convincing, and the...

Orb: On the Movements of the Earth

It was too dark to figure out what’s going on. This was most scenes, ugh! They were all too dark. And in between there would a scene which would be too bright, and the screen would be at max brightness because every other scene was too dark and the bright scenes would burn my corneas...

Lord of Mysteries

Why the hell was this show so dark? I couldn’t see anything without cranking the display brightness up to the max! But when I do that the bright scenes would appear blindingly bright. Ugh! Every time a show does this, I loose interest after a few episodes. There will be scenes that are...

Dunkirk

I for some reason expected this to have a story as well. It seems much more like a super well directed documentary.

Ranma 1/2 (2024)

Super cute anime that is really fun you watch. But this anime is built around one little quirk, and once you get used to that quirk, it’s a less engaging. The quirk is that the father-son duo can turn into a panda-girl duo if splashed with cold water. This quirk is really funny and...

Narivetta

Well I wish I could rate this a little higher but these are the ratings. The pacing was a bit uneven. While the overall flow wasn’t bad, certain scenes got a little too much time, detracting from the central narrative. A significant chunk of the film is spent on the protagonist’s romantic life...

Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines

Visually Stunning, But Lacking in Substance Makeine delivers shockingly high-quality animation for a series that hasn’t quite broken into mainstream popularity. Some shots are so incredibly beautiful, it’s hard to believe this much talent was dedicated to a show with such a simple premise....

Severance

Good show, very enjoyable. Not binge watch material, you might fall asleep if you try, and I mention that as a positive. It’s great to see a good show that doesn’t get you all riled up. You could watch an episode or two after work before bed, and successfully stop watching and...

Dredd

One of the coolest lesser known movies ever. I wish this movie scored more, but oh well.

Falimy

Funny. Very funny. Give it a watch.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Lazarus

An extremely well animated, well dubbed, well choreographed and well directed waste of my time. It didn’t matter how well every other piece was crafted, at the end of the day the story was mediocre and was told poorly told. Almost every episode felt like a filler episode, only slightly aiding...

Berserk

Cromartie High School

Dorohedoro

Unique! From the starting to the end Dorohedoro has been so unique in almost every way that you just want to keep watching and see what happens next. The world is so different, so violent and so mysterious, but so believable. The world building in Dorohedoro is fantastic. Caiman has a...

Chainsaw Man

One Piece

Attack on Titan

Akira

Devilman Crybaby

Frieren

To be filled in later

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba The Movie: Infinity Castle

This is not a real movie, it’s simply several episodes stitched together into something that has a movie-like runtime. I was so disappointed by how little the series managed to cover. The movie went into one sad backstory after the other. And ended up taking too much runtime. I wish I...

F1

Rush is so much better. But this was good too. The movie felt like watching an actual F1 race, but I was only about as excited as an actual race could make me. I consider this a negative, as I couldn’t find much that validated the movie’s existence. While the film was...

Superman 2025

This was a surprisingly fun Superman movie to watch. There were a few reused shots toward the end, especially in the scene where Superman and Lois Lane were lifted into the air, but that didn’t take away too much from the experience. What I liked most was how this Superman wasn’t presented...

Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra

A good movie. Quite well directed. The script used was simple but good. They did have to make several languages work together, which was done well. I wasn’t a fan of how it ended, since it’s acted as the launchpad for a whole series of movies, instead of being one great movie....

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Way too rushed and built around performing stunts. The script sucks. The story telling is bad. Some people die and you couldn’t care less. Tom Cruise keeps doing things that are straight up impossible. I know it’s called Mission Impossible, where the plot is Tom Cruise doing...

The Naked Gun (2025)

Unsatisfying. The best part of this movie was that it ended quickly.

The Northman

Spectacular!

Blame!

Netflix made a movie out of Blame! ! And it’s pretty good! While the movie couldn’t cover too much of the story, it still managed to get me and others interested in Blame!. The animation was pretty great. While there was heavy use of CGI, it still looked convincing, and the...

Dunkirk

I for some reason expected this to have a story as well. It seems much more like a super well directed documentary.

Narivetta

Well I wish I could rate this a little higher but these are the ratings. The pacing was a bit uneven. While the overall flow wasn’t bad, certain scenes got a little too much time, detracting from the central narrative. A significant chunk of the film is spent on the protagonist’s romantic life...

Dredd

One of the coolest lesser known movies ever. I wish this movie scored more, but oh well.

Falimy

Funny. Very funny. Give it a watch.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Akira

The Queen’s Gambit

Severance

Good show, very enjoyable. Not binge watch material, you might fall asleep if you try, and I mention that as a positive. It’s great to see a good show that doesn’t get you all riled up. You could watch an episode or two after work before bed, and successfully stop watching and...

The World God Only Knows

This manga, when I finished reading it, I hoped I could forget about, so that I could read it all over again. The anime version though didn’t strike me the same way. The main character calls himself the god of conquest. Conqueror of the hearts of women, in dating simulator games.....

Berserk

Air Quality

I’ve been thinking of air recently. Specifically the air quality in my room. Every time I come back home, the house air in the house feels distinctly stale, like it’s lacking in circulation, and a little moist. I have a few flatmates and the HVAC system cuts off after getting to the...

Interactive 3D Solar System

Explore an accelerated Three.js model of the solar system.