Yourong Frank Wang

2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025

Astronomy (27) Cars (2) Community (18) Cosmic Sans (10) DailyChemistry (2) f-stop (2) Future (7) FWAviation (2) FWCraft (3) fwd. (6) FWNotebook (16) Little Demos (8) memes (4) memos (33) Meta (4) Microblog (2) Photo Journals (38) Poetry (17) randomness (13) RRFP (5) Sci-fi (2) Science Scholars 102 (6) Scischol (1) SightOfAMirror (3) TAS (2) Technology (6) The Aperiodicals (27) Uncategorized (4) Utility (2) Voices&MusicWorks (12) Writing (52)

  • And the Credits Roll

    And the Credits Roll

    I don’t know whether I am taking the best angle about this topic.

    Anyway, here goes.

    In Series …
    THE APERIODICALS
    Local (personal, potentially shallow, and subject to change) outlooks on science, technology, growth, and occasionally culture and history. The goal is to write something every week, but whether it can make its way to FWPhys is random. Hence the series title.

    (more…)
  • WKB

    WKB

    (more…)

  • A Tiny Game of Control

    I can’t embed custom JavaScript still … so please come here to try this game. Note that it needs some old-fashioned pointing device (mouse or trackpad) to function at the moment. Touchscreens work but the code isn’t optimised.

    https://sifyrena.github.io/Control/

    (more…)
  • [Photo Journal XL] ACW25:

    [Photo Journal XL] ACW25:

    (more…)

  • “The Vacuous Megaparsecs” – Companion Booklet

    And physics updates.

    (more…)
  • [Photo Journal] Nordcampus, 6AM

    [Photo Journal] Nordcampus, 6AM

    How long haven’t we had one of these … just a simple photo walk through a cool spot.

    (more…)
  • Announcing the Frank Wang Scientific and Interactive Fun Initiative (SIFI)

    Announcing the Frank Wang Scientific and Interactive Fun Initiative (SIFI)

    Right now, the closest things I have to interactive programming in my portfolio are a few classroom demos of elastic collisions, and a fork of PyUltraLight that runs in a PyGame window—where clicking your mouse spawns a tiny black hole that swirls the dark matter. It runs at maybe 15 FPS on my Mac Studio.

    So… not exactly a game studio. Yet.

    Still, it feels like the right time to begin making my own indie games —not just as an experiment, but as a space where my technical training, my love of puzzles, and my scattered efforts in music and design can all come together.

    That’s why I’m starting a new creative wing: the Frank Wang Scientific and Interactive Fun Initiative, or SIFI. It’s where I’ll explore the overlap between science, storytelling, and interactive systems.

    Incidentally, I’ve had SIFI as part of my identity since very long ago, even earlier than the fruit brand’s disappointing voice assistant with a similar name. “Sifi” eventually morphed into my GitHub handle – Sifyrena… So we are beginning a new thing, yes, but it is also a long time in the making.

    More news soon.

    (Logo is in draft stage)

  • Above Rules

    Above Rules

    (scribbles)

    (more…)
  • Introducing Schachbier (…)

    Introducing Schachbier (…)

    I like cylinders just as much as I love spheres, and the fictional beverage saga continues.

    (more…)
  • Half Marathon (+1611 days, -34 days)

    Half Marathon (+1611 days, -34 days)

    There is about a month until my participation at the Goettingen Half Marathon 2025. My body still needs a significantly higher training load to perform reliably. I will beat the gate, I know, but not expecting more than that.

    I am about 8kg heavier than my self at the previous run, and well April probably isn’t enough to fix that. My previous run was in 2020, with a result of about 2 hours and 10 minutes (including water and photo breaks). I was too busy to reflect on what my participation meant to me. Well, here is what I remember.

    In Series …
    THE APERIODICALS
    Local (personal, potentially shallow, and subject to change) outlooks on science, technology, growth, and occasionally culture and history. The goal is to write something every week, but whether it can make its way to FWPhys is random. Hence the series title.

    (more…)