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I just have my personal website published!

Building a personal website is something I really wanted to do a long while ago. It can help me reflect on what I am lack and also advertise the research projects I have done and that I am currently working on. It was the right time to stay at home and work on my personal website during the pandemic while conducting experiments was not possible. I personally do not like drag and drop type of website builder, so I decided to use Github pages and Jekyll to host my personal website on Github. It is a good practice for git and coding with HTML/CSS/JavaScript. I also hope to use this blogger to share some of my random thoughts about physics, life, and anything about the universe.

Link to my personal website: https://mingweii.github.io

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