Zongzi
Zongzi — We made many of them, for the holiday and for the breakfasts in the coming month
New Enemies, and More Interesting Meteors Coming to VR Planet Defense
I'm working on new enemies for the VR Planet Defense v1.2 update. Also updated the meteor shapes, they are more good looking now.
A New Splash Screen for VR Planet Defense
In preparation of VR Planet Defense v1.2 release, I created this splash screen.
∞ Gender Stereotypes About Intellectual Ability Emerge Early and Influence Children’s Interests
A report on Science by Lin Bian, Sarah-Jane Leslie, and Andrei Cimpian:
The distribution of women and men across academic disciplines seems to be affected by perceptions of intellectual brilliance. Bian et al. studied young children to assess when those differential perceptions emerge. At age 5, children seemed not to differentiate between boys and girls in expectations of “really, really smart”—childhood's version of adult brilliance. But by age 6, girls were prepared to lump more boys into the “really, really smart” category and to steer themselves away from games intended for the “really, really smart.”
Results of studies three and four.Boys’ (blue) and girls’ (red) interest (average of standardized responses to four questions) in novel games in study three (A) and study four (B). The main independent variable for each study (task in study three, age in study four) is shown in bold. Error bars represent ± 1 SE.
This is depressing to read.
∞ Arts of the New Moon
Google Arts & Culture celebrating Lunar New Year. Great project.
∞ Airbnb: Communicating Clarity and Charm
Google Design's article about Airbnb:
Airbnb replaced the left navigation bar on Android with the bottom navigation bar that now exists on both iOS and Android, to better unify the cross-platform experience.
I don't think unifying cross Android & iOS should be a goal. But replacing "hamburger menu + left navigation" with "bottom navigation bar" is definitely a win.
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∞ Steady Drop for macOS is Now Available on itch.io
Get it, and start dropping.
(If you want a Windows version, drop a comment below🙏 It would encourage me to finish it sooner 😀)
First Gameplay Footage of Steady Drop v0.1
Puerto Rico Notes
Last year's December holiday, me and my wife went to Puerto Rico. It was quite a wonderful break.
Before getting into the details, we have to thank Inbox first. We booked three Air Flamenco flights for three consecutive days: SIG✈️VQS, VQS✈️CPX, CPX✈️FAJ. But we mistakenly booked the second flight on a November day instead of December. We didn't notice it at all. Just before that day in November, I was looking at my Inbox's Trip bundle:
Inbox doesn't create a great trip name though.
WAIT! The start date is clearly wrong. Luckily that time, there were still two seats available on the correct date. If Inbox didn't have this feature, we would probably have to take a very expensive cargo boat instead.
The real notes, now.
Dec 24, Christmas Eve
The original plan was to arrive at San Juan 1:35AM via SFO✈️MIA✈️SJU. But maybe because of the weather far far aways from Miami, the caption of the MIA✈️SJU flight couldn't make it:
This Christmas Eve couldn’t be beteer pic.twitter.com/YDSuEhWwGi
— Dolee Yang (@DoleeYang) December 25, 2016
Christmas Eve in a hotel it is.
Now I'm thinking though, this actually sounds better than Christmas Eve on a plane 🤔
Dec 25, Old San Juan
We took a taxi from SJU to Old San Juan, the historical colonial town in the San Juan city. It's very walkable, and is worth spending a day. The most unique thing is its narrow streets:
A typical street in Old San Juan.
Unfortunately the castles and museums were closed on Christmas.
We stayed at the lovely Villa Herencia Hotel that night ★★★★☆
Dec 26, Vieques
We ✈️ to Vieques in the morning. It was the first time I sit in the copilot seat:
First time sitting on the copilot seat. The view is amazing, didn’t take any photo/videos though 😞 pic.twitter.com/Qt2hFSGryI
— Dolee Yang (@DoleeYang) December 26, 2016
Because we didn't rent a car, we booked two tours instead.
The day at Playa Caracas (instead of Playa La Chiva thanks to the wind) we snorkeled.
The night at Bahía Bioluminiscente we saw the amazing luminescence in the sea, and the more amazingly clear stars in the sky.
We stayed at Acacia Guesthouse ★★★☆☆
Dec 27, Vieques/Culebra
Wandered at Sun Bay, ✈️ to Vieques, and stayed at Culebra Island Villas ★★☆☆☆
Dec 28, Culebra
We snorkeled again at Playa Sardinas. This place is perfect:
Then ✈️ to Ceiba, took a taxi to SJU, picked up our rental car. That's the only place open 24 hours.
Stayed at Four Points in Caguas ★★★☆☆
Dec 29, Ponce
Ponce is the second largest city in Puerto Rico. In the center of Ponce is its landmark Parque de Bombas (firehouse):
Parque de Bombas
We also went to the great Museo de Arte and boring Castillo Serralles.
Ignoring the restaurants, we had the awesome Puerto Rican Pinchos for lunch.
Stayed at the same place last night.
Dec 30, El Yunque National Forest
Finally, a little bit nature and hiking in the only tropical rain forest of United States:
El Yunque National Forest
And ✈️ MIA ✈️ SFO.
Bonous
I bought a GoPro Hero5 for this trip:
GoPro Hero5
This is the first time I tried to record some footage. After 20 hours of post processing, voila:
By the way, video post processing is quite fun and time consuming at the same time. I hope I can shoot and produce more in the future.