Anna's Notes

Notes are short posts that briefly explore or express short thoughts on a topic. They can be any size from a handful of words to a few hundred. These are typically POSSE'd to various platforms, such as my Mastodon.

Learning Special Relativity

2026-04-13 · 1 min · #physics

The number of ah-ha! moments I've had when learning about special relativity is incredible (at the cost of the constant pain of "how on earth is this possible").

I knew how to do Lorentz transformations before and even wrote some code to represent them, but now I'm finally building an intuition for special relativity instead of primarily relying on the equations.

Can't wait for general relativity to mess it up once again!

Is it time to use Zig?

2026-04-16 · 1 min · #computing

Is it time for me to finally start writing Zig? I used to use it (and make minor contributions) years ago but got demoralized by constantly rewriting my code with updates.

But it seems like a solid language and one that will only increase in prevalence in the coming years.

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