Nathan Laundry's Blog


Hi, I'm Nathan. I'm a Computer Science PhD student with two passions: homelab, and self-improvement. I write about both and some other stuff:


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The Terminal Velocity Quintet

Entrancing There’s music in your voice rhythm in your body and an elegant chaos in your mind I can’t imagine anything more entrancing than you with a story to tell Books if not your mind I shall read your books. I’ll live in the stories that crafted you Breathe in the fiction that forged your reality Assembling within me, your visage Character by character Line by line Word by word Read more...

Losing You for the Last

Too Much I learned to love like everything is on the verge of ending. Forgive me if I take too much today Forgive me if I need you to remind me you’ll be here tomorrow. Power The greatest lie I ever told myself is that I chose to give you the power to ruin me Search Today I searched you up again. Sometimes when I’m lonely I find an unsettling comfort Read more...

On the Edge of Yearning

Sparks Without you I’m like Flint Without the Steel No sparks Listen I listen to you like the world is running out of words and you’re its final act Breathe The taste of your words lingers on the air you breathe and I can’t help but think how lucky I would be to breathe that same air and press upon my lips those echoes of you Stare Brand me with your stare Read more...

Duty of Care

Burn The sun and all its siblings could fair no better in the gruesome work of burning my soul than the friction between our hearts as yours is torn from mine Duty of Care To have failed so in my duty of care in my guardianship of your heart I bear this penance of solitude to feel your pain as my own with no solace of companionship nor numbing agent Read more...

Burning

Fluent I’ve become fluent in the silence that comes before the storm Tip I still taste your name on the tip of my tongue each time I speak of love Look I craved your gaze so deeply that I pulled myself apart showering you in the pieces of me like a rose petal by petal just to piece myself back together in the image of the man I thought you wanted Read more...

Using A/B Testing as a Pedagogical Tool for Iterative Design in HCI Classrooms

Submitted to EduCHI-2023 Find it Here: PDF Abstract This paper explores the use of A/B testing as a pedagogical tool for iterative design in HCI classrooms and outlines a vision for experiment-inspired design. The traditional focus on the statistical aspects of A/B testing education has meant that the equally crucial role of iterative design embedded within the experimental process has not received commensurate attention. By incorporating iter- ative design learning activities that are scaffolded by A/B testing Read more...

How to Write your own HCI Related Works Section Template

Academia Writing
What you’ll find here My process for figuring out what to include in a literature review The template I built for writing future literature reviews So recently I had to write a literature review for one of my classes and I wanted to formalize my approach to doing so. I’ve been working on it for the past few days and thought I’d share what I’ve done so any new graduate students, like myself, can learn from it and hopefully share their own tips and tricks. Read more...

Ponder Walks and Wander Walks: Thinking on the Go

Productivity
👋 Hey Friends, So, I’ve decided to try to write more short articles. I’ve realized that my perfectionist tendencies have crept in once again and are keeping me from posting more frequently. I’ve got a backlog of ideas that I keep tinkering with hoping one day they’ll be good enough to share. This little article is the first in an attempt to share the imperfect. Here’s a little idea I had on walks and how they facilitate thinking. Read more...

In my Blood

In my Blood A short series of poems dedicated to my grandparents Grandma Sometimes I wonder who you see when you look at me. Is that love in your eyes or what remains of your kindness? Does the heart recall what the mind does not? Grandpa When your eyes grow heavy and you tire of the pain we’ll find the strength together to carry our name

Building Online Gaming Communities: From Features to Emergent Behaviours to Online Communities

Unpublished PDF Available here Abstract Players form meaningful communities via online games. Game developers can retain players if they support online communities. However, existing literature often does not provide actionable advice on how to build online communities and insights gathered may only be relevant for one game or one genre of games. Through consolidating existing literature, we found that it may be the behaviours that emerged (Emergent Behaviours) that create online communities. Read more...
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