Joarvarndt
Joarvarndt
Joar Alexander
My name is Joar Alexander Pablo von Arndt. I am a European from Stockholm, Sweden, the child of a journalist and a visual artist, and currently a full-time student doing my bachelors. I am studying political science at the Swedish Defence University, a unique blend between a civilian university and a military college.
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Table of Contents Dynamically updating Github profile Creating the README Using Github workflows Conclusion Dynamically updating Github profile Github has a functionality where the README file in a repository with the same name as your...
Table of Contents Why Chinese? How to Study How I Studied Thoughts on the Language The Future This is part of a series of posts written during or shortly after my visits to the mainland of the People’s Republic of China in the summer of...
Table of Contents Introduction Obstacles to Travelling on the Mainland Differing Technological Ecosystems The Scale of the Great Firewall The Chinese People Conclusion This is part of a series of posts written during or shortly after my...
Table of Contents Introduction The General Economic Environment of the Mainland What is Deepseek? The Risks of American AI Strategy Conclusion This is part of a series of posts written during or shortly after my visits to the mainland of...
Table of Contents Why would you want web browsing in a text editor? The Emacs Web Wowser (eww) w3m Non-text based Xwidgets EAF Why would you want web browsing in a text editor? Emacs has a tendency to try and absorb all user-facing...
Table of Contents Introduction What is meant by the End of History? Russia The United States of America The People’s Republic of China Conclusion Introduction Francis Fukuyama is probably the person most connected to the concept of “the...
Table of Contents Functions Side Effects Conclusion Programming languages (and their users) are often grouped into two main intellectual schools of thought: Object-oriented programming (OOP) and functional programming. These two schools...
Table of Contents The nature of Email Challenges The nature of Email In an increasingly interconnected and technologically sophisticated world, our capabilities for communication and diversity of ways to do so also increases. This is...
Table of Contents Why Emacs? Mathematics in Emacs Humanities and the social sciences Deliverables Group work Conclusion Why Emacs? I have been using GNU Emacs for about three years now. I initially began using it after completing a...
I think every personal blog that is somewhat custom built should have documentation written on its design philosophy and implementation. I see this as an extension of the free-software ideal; you should not only be allowed but also able...
This post was written as an examination in the Premodern History of China, a course I took at Stockholm University, and is available as a PDF here. Throughout Chinese history, there have been two great divides. First, that of the...
Similarly to this earlier post, this was written as an examination at the Swedish Defence University. It was written for the course Nuclear Weapons in International Security and as such is also available as a .pdf here. To answer the...
This text was originally written as an examination at the Swedish Defense University (Försvarshögskolan) for the course in Economic Security in Competition, Conflict and War and is therfore available as a PDF here. Throughout the history...
Diplomacy Today is a python program and corresponding flask application that serves and hosts an early-twentieth-century-style newspapers generated from the turn orders of a game of Diplomacy hosted on backstabbr. The idea, and a large...
I am by no means an expert on Ellul, I have merely read three of his books (Presence in the Modern World, The Technological Society, and The Meaning of the City) But in trying to communicate his influence on my thinking, I have...