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I am now reconsidering if a digital garden where existing posts are continuously refined is the best way to capture my thoughts.

I used moonrepo’s proto for 3 months.

Quite recently, I have had the pleasure (sarcasm intended) of witnessing colleagues with strong personalities clashing, each response doubling down with their side of the story.

I stumbled upon this nifty invoice project, which is also available in homebrew: brew install invoice.

Almost a year ago, I joined Security Bank as a principal engineer.

Our requirement was a real “Partner Mode,” where the piano splits into two sections with the same key range.

I recently joined a workshop + hackathon event held in Microsoft’s Philippines office, centered around on using Azure’s hosted Open AI GenAI capabilities.

It’s been over two years since I joined Inspectorio.

Source code: Github Since it was the end of the month, and I failed to record the expenses as we made them, I had to encode all of those data from apps like Grab to a spreadsheet for our family’s budget tracking.

Context There was one recent meeting where when I mentioned about the rush to deliver caused the quality of our work to decrease, it was met with negativity, painting the notion that I mentioned it to just make an excuse as to why we ended up with lower q…

Summary ChatGPT ships fast, but it obviously isn’t the first company that did that.

Summary What made me read this book was when I stumbled upon a talk by Dan North about effective teams, and this is also one of the key ideas that stuck with me by the end of the book: Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition.

Summary The post itself has some interesting points to consider.

Background The project I am involved in at Inspectorio had a pretty standard process, where each merge request would run unit tests before we could merge it. flowchart LR A(Push changes to feature branch) --> B(Run CI pipeline) B --> C(Merge changes) The…

This post was a long time coming, I just stumbled upon this one in one of my Zettels.

I was recently offered a position as “Head of Software Development”, which is directly under “VP of Engineering”, but I turned it down.

I recently encountered a problem where I had to optimize a function that handles an array size of more than 10k items.

I started working with Fujitsu Ten in October something, 2010.

I am currently using GCS for the images in my blog, and I usually never resized images before uploading them to the bucket.

I came across a friend’s blog again, after I saw some FB posts about illustrations, which prompted me to search for him to see what’s his latest works are on the internet as he deactivated his social media account.

It’s been over a month since we got our Mazda CX-9 Turbo Exclusive.

I distinctly remember that during the trip, I quickly did some doodles for the blog post about how we met on the last night of our trip.

In exactly 3 weeks we would be celebrating our 6th anniversary, and after three months from that, we would mark our first decade as a couple.

I’ve been a long-time CleanShot user turned CleanShot Cloud user, but recently, I’ve been trying to clamp down on my online subscriptions.

Recently, I read the book A Philosophy of Software Design, and one of the key points that stuck with me is Consistency.

Tax.

There was this one project that I was involved in that never deleted merged branches.

While working on XJS 3, I had to frequently parse the XML strings that the XBC core is sending to me, and then create an interface for TS so that tslint would stop complaining my use of any.

So I made a tool and I thought of blogging about it.

For the past few weeks, I was looking for a new compiled language that I can make use of for my tools as I grew tired of Go language’s verbosity.

I’ve been working for SplitmediaLabs for the past 4 years.

Yesterday, I had the priviledge to give a talk at FEU Institute of Technology about using web technologies to create desktop applications.

EQCSS allows us to style elements based on the element’s state.

To be honest, I am writing this blog post way past my actual wedding day, and through the power of editing the post date… the blog post will appear as if I published this post at the day of my wedding :D This is obviously a big milestone for us, and the f…