Remembering what I loved

It has been ages since I have ever gone for a physical meetup. Work, university and COVID-19 simply made it impossible for me to attend one. My mind was cluttered with how much I hate university and many more. The…

Buying Experience: Seagate IronWolf 16TB NewEgg

I recently ordered and shipped in a 16TB hard disk from NewEgg. Some of my friends recommended me to buy an external hard disk, send to a forwarder and then ship it to Singapore. This is indeed a more affordable…

PHP Asia Conference 2018 Is Back

Hey all! I’m excited to tell all of you something! PHP Asia Conference is back for this year! I’ve attended it in 2016 as a speaker and it was amazing. If you’ve not read my 2016 blog post, you should!…

Prioritizing atomicity over consistency of CRUD

Today, I learnt about balancing and managing yet another engineering trade-off about APIs. To achieve a glory of REST, we would need to take a look at Richardson’s Maturity Model.

Richardson’s Maturity Model

Essentially, to achieve the glory of REST,…

2017 – A year in review

I’ve had a few goals in mind that I wanted to accomplish and managed to complete them. I wanted to contribute to the free software movement, contribute more to local tech community, learn more about software engineering, be more courageous…

Acceptance/integration tests only…?

I came into this thinking initially when I read the late Pieter Hintjen’s books. He was against numbers/coverage percentage and said that testing should be focused on APIs. This ensures that the components that works and ignores how individual components…

Reading Continuous Delivery

Just a quick update on what’s going on with life right now. My buddy Josh Long recently bought me tons of books for my reading during my free time whilst in army. (Thanks Josh) And I’ve started off with the…

Learning from speaking up

Over this short year, I’ve started sharing my knowledge and experiences at meetups and conferences. And I’m truly grateful for community inspirations and organizers for allowing me to gain such a unique experience. Over time, I learnt to overcome challenges…

Don’t focus on structures

This applies especially to projects that are just starting out. Recently, I’ve been reading a little on domain driven design and building a small software project. Whenever I add certain specific object structures, it makes it harder to solve the…

Drop those stupid addresses smaller than /48

Two years ago, when I looked at IPv6 address announcements, I saw that our fellow Singapore major “traffic light” (red for Singtel, yellow for Mobile One, green for Starhub) Internet Service Providers (ISPs) announced lots of /64 subnets. This is…