Just an aspiring programmer

"Learn from the past, live for the moment, and look towards the future"
Designed by me yaaayyy

Kyle Yu

I am a fourth year college student pursuing a bachelor's degree in Computer Science who is currently studying at California State University, East Bay. I enjoy programming in my free time and I am looking for opportunities to make it my full time profession.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-yu-3139a5140/
Github: https://github.com/Gystre/
Email: kyleyu222@gmail.com
Discord: kale#0104

2019 - 2020

Age of YouTube

In late 2019, I did a major redesign of my portfolio website, recoding it from the ground up and updating it occasionaly through 2020 to shape the website into what I (imagined) looked good. I got pretty close, but when it came to iterating over this design, I realized that my style of coding was incredibly messy. This led to one thing breaking many other things and so much undefined behavior on different devices that I just gave up and planned a redesign in the future which is what you are viewing right now!

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2018 - 2019

Age of Intro to CS class

My first real iteration of my portfolio website. It started as an assignment in my intro to computer science class and at the time the only tools I had access to was stack overflow for questions and codepen.io as my ide. I was pretty proud of it at the time but looking back on it, it looks really bad.

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Past Projects:

Culinary Forecast

6-23-2023

A simple web app that glues together a few free apis to recommend recipes based on the weather and time of day. Built with a react frontend, tailwindcss, and deployed with netlify.

Check it out: https://lustrous-kangaroo-a1b222.netlify.app

HapiCopy

Spring - 2023

This was a minor side project to help me learn proper web design. Using things like figma to rough draft the layout, creating a color pallette, using the 8 point system to properly space things out, and translating the design into code. Built with nextjs, tailwindcss, and deployed with vercel.

Check it out: https://hapicopy.kyleyu.org

Wordsearcher

Summer - Fall 2022

Wordsearcher is an online tool I built utilizing computer vision to identify word searches and uses a simple algorithm to solve them.

To solve the word search, it makes use of 2 different models both based on the YOLO architecture. One finds where the letter grid is on the image and the other identifies the letters in that grid. This 2 step approach is decently fast and accurate which is all I need to solve pretty much every rectangular word search. To serve the models, I am calling Azure serverless functions from a simple react front end. It's not the fastest thing in the world since the cold starts are very noticeable (20-30 seconds per solve) but I think it's a good trade off for simplicity during development since people will usually never need to solve the same word search twice.

Try it: https://wordsearcher.kyleyu.org
Github (how to use it)

Sekkei's Website

Summer 2020

My friend and I co-founded a digital marketing agency during the summer of 2020 and since our work was almost entirely digital it was pretty much mandatory that we needed a website. I brought together 3 other friends who knew how to code and we worked together to bring it to life. I worked as the manager among my friends, tasking others with pages that needed to get done while I worked on the site structure, technology choices, and hosting. It was a great experience learning what it takes to keep a team productive through meetings and what goes into a modern website from start to finish.

A serverless website built with React and SCSS running on a netlify CMS and packaged with the gatsby compiler. Pretty FAST if u know what i'm talking about.

Try it: https://sekkeicreative.com

Kyle Reddit

January 1, 2021

This project was a way for me to learn the full stack development experience, from server -> web -> domain registration -> vps -> deploy. It uses a next.js and typeorm front end with a node.js server using graphql to interface with a postgres database that is on a redis container. Following Ben Awad's tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ypD7qv3Z8) and building off of it. It's sort of a spiritual successor to Kylegram which was my clone of instagram but on a LAMP stack.

Github
Try it: https://kylegodly.com

Katakana Quiz Tool

July 31, 2020

Really fast copy pasted learning tool for katakana because there wasn't one available for it and I liked the original tool for hiragana.

Github
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Terraritone

June 1, 2020

Autonomous bot that moves a Terraria player for you using a modified version of the A* pathfinding algorithm.

Github

Econ Stock Market Calculator

March 10, 2020

Just a mini calculator to simplify all the multiplying and subtraction for this project

Github
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Visual Array Sorter

November 3, 2019

Online visual array sorter for all your sorting needs!

Github
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Blue Dolphin, a CSGO cheat

A half pasted, half original CS:GO internal cheat utilizing the imgui library for the in-game menu. Complete with aimbot, silent aim, recoil control, glow esp, bhop, and thirdperson.

Github

Space Invaders

Pretty cool 2d game space invaders using the javafx library.

Github