Miscellaneous Things

This page is more or less an index into all the random things that are on this site. I feel like the official index page is more of a frontispiece for the site, which is, I suppose, the norm for modern websites.

Local Resources

Here are the major things found on this site.

/about: Some information about me and my website
/thoughts: My “technical” “blog”
/new: Changelog for this website
/cycling: Cycling stuff, including ride reports
/life: Casual life updates, travel photos, etc.
/faith: Writings on Christian religion
/books: My virtual bookshelf
/reading: Articles, websites, etc. that I found notable enough to save
/cooking: Things that I’ve cooked
/restaurants: Some brief NYC restaurant opinions

Here are some random other things that are here. Many of them were written in high school and exist for historical interest (i.e. my embarrassment).

/inventor: One of the first pages I ever put up, showcasing a few CAD models from high school
hiadrian.pdf: An excellent scholarly publication. Erica has since reached out to me and, as far as I can tell, does not have a problem with it. (If you change your mind, just let me know.)
words.AppImage: Some years ago I packaged Whitaker’s Words, a popular English–Latin dictionary, on x86_64 Linux
/school: A bunch of school-related stuff, mostly written during high school. Perhaps the most notable things here are digital copies of the Cambridge Latin Course textbook series, which I “pirated” a while ago. Someone apparently found this useful enough to send me a thank-you email, which was very kind.
/wishlist: A basic wishlist, so that I have something to say when my parents ask me what I’d like for some holiday.

External Resources

Here are some great places on the Internet. (Warning: many of these may have been created by me.)

~~Adithya Appreciation Website~~ Unfortunately, my good friend Adithya has requested that I take down this website, since apparently it started showing up near the top of Google searches! This led to his receiving—I quote—“endless flak.” You can still view the source on Github.
2018 MATE Documentation: Well, would you look at that? 5th place technical documentation at internationals! If you want the L^aT_eX source, we may be able to work something out.
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I used to maintain a university website, but then I graduated and that got deleted.
I also used to have a Keybase site, but then they got acquired and shut down that service.
Some things hosted under the ericzheng.org domain:
- www.ericzheng.org: my main site, which you’re reading right now.
- angband.ericzheng.org: a SOCKS proxy that I run. It’s useful for browsing the web over, say, sketchy free hotel wifi. Or, you know, sailing the high seas without one’s ISP knowing.
- eregion.ericzheng.org: I used to host another SOCKS proxy located in Asia, acting as a lower-latency service for myself or my family when in China. It turns out that paid services are just better than mine, so I turned this off.
- tirion.ericzheng.org: a file hosting site for my website. I mostly put images there.
- doriath.ericzheng.org: backend for the dynamic parts of this website (mostly just comments)
- blog.ericzheng.org: an old blog that I made for a high school English assignment. This is now outdated; my current blogging is done on my main site.
- lsb.ericzheng.org: a random thing I once did as part of a joke for a class in college.
- localhost.ericzheng.org: points to 127.0.0.1, because it’s occasionally convenient.

Me Elsewhere on the Internet

I can be found at other online places, although I don’t use all of them regularly (or really at all). Some of these include:

air-wreck on Github
air-wreck on Gitlab
ericzheng on Keybase
u/air-wreck on Reddit: I’m a longtime lurker but a relatively new poster
air-wreck on Hacker News: I tend to read but not really post
erzheng on Kaggle: I just made this for a deep learning class that I took
air-wreck#4301 on Discord: I’m here because many of my friends use this, but truth be told, I’m not extremely active
air-wreck on Codeforces: I don’t actually do competitive programming, but a friend thought it’d be a fun idea to do a contest once, so I made this account
ericzheng on Strava: it’s probably more stable to use my ID number, 69228505
u/airwreck on lemmy.world: in light of the whole Reddit API pricing issues of June 2023, I thought I should probably support some federated alternatives
@soliteric_monk on Instagram: after some peer pressure, I finally got an Instagram account in August 2023

The handle air-wreck is from middle school; its connection to me should be obvious. It came about because I had a friend named Sameer, whose name we realized sounded a lot like “some ear.” The best I could come up with for my name was “air ick,” but I preferred “wreck” to “ick.”

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