Today, I kinda stumbled upon this tennis player named August Holmgren. I mean, I was just messing around online, and bam, there he was. Seems like a pretty decent player, from Denmark, with a career-high singles ranking of 163. That’s not too shabby, right?

So, I started digging a bit. Checked out some of his stats on the ATP Tour website. You know, the usual stuff – aces, double faults, serves won. Nothing really jumped out at me, but it’s always interesting to see the numbers.
Then I found this other site, CoreTennis, that had his ranking history and graphs. Currently, he’s sitting at ATP 460. It’s cool to see how a player’s ranking fluctuates over time. It looks like a bit of a rollercoaster.
While I was on a roll, I got sidetracked and ended up playing with some box-drawing characters. You ever do that? Just messing around with different symbols and seeing what you can create? I was trying to make a little table using characters like ┻ and ┼. It’s harder than it looks! I even tried to look into how to encode those crazy Chinese characters into UTF-8, you know those little boxes with symbols in them, but I think I got lost in the weeds on that one.
After that, I wanted to do something productive, so I decided to mess around with URL encoding. I think I broke things because I couldn’t get it to work at all. I was trying to encode some special characters in a URL and see how they changed. It’s all about making sure those tricky characters don’t mess up the URL, I think. Anyway, after about 2 hours of trying to get it to work, I gave up.
So yeah, that was my little adventure today. Started with a tennis player and ended up with a URL encoder. You never know where the internet will take you, I guess. And what did I do that day? Absolutely nothing.

- Checked out August Holmgren’s tennis stats.
- Got lost in the world of box-drawing characters and encoding.
- Failed at URL encoding.