Growing up Because I want to build a company that someone like myself will be proud and happy to work. This is the dull reason I give when people ask why I started a business.
From code to production with Kubernetes via Gitlab Warning: This is a technical post.We decided to adopt Kubernetes as the company doubles down on container-based deployment.I am probably the last code-savvy person in the company to understand Kubernetes since
What has Kubernetes got to do with being a product manager? Warning, this is a technical post.I have been busy in the past two days picking up Kubernetes and boy this new technology will need a third day for me to wrap my
Do you hear that drum that just will not stop beating? Ba-boom, ba-boom. A relentless beat in life to remind you to tone the fuck down. I hear it constantly, and I find it impossible to get it to stop.Against my will, my
Mistakes I made in my 20s I had to study hard and get to a university because my mother said so. I had to tuck in my clothes in school because those were the school rules. Never do drugs,
TechInAsia b̶u̶l̶l̶i̶e̶d̶ told a redditor to delete his Reddit a̶c̶c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶ comment I received a private message on Reddit today by a guy who asked if I know anything about another redditor that I replied to on Reddit.I do not recall the Redditor's username,
The story of stupidity and Ubersnap You might have come across this "GIF" printing photo booth if you have attended corporate events or weddings. The chances are that you just used Ubersnap's services. Ubersnap is probably the first company
Building a product is not the same as playing a chess Building a product is not the same as playing chess. An egomaniac tried to impress upon me that I should be like him, to engage my brain before diving headfirst into building my
Embrace chaos The Singapore government just banned e-scooters on all footpaths. This stacks on top of the existing e-scooter road ban. The regulation was announced and enforced the very next day. In one fell scoop,
Warning, this post is an incredibly entitled rant Last night, I caught a fever from a mild store throat, so I went to bed an hour earlier. Last month I caught a cold as well, so I took a flu shot
Many months later, I still suck at writing A few weeks ago, I spent $150 on 50 Pure Red Line (PRL) shrimps. These are the purest breed of what is a high-end shrimp for my aquarium hobby. They all died except
Introducing SharedHere.com I have been writing code, designing interfaces, and exploring Unix tools in the last two and a half weeks. I should not be coding. And yet I got my hands dirty because it
This time, failure is not that scary In one of my earliest articles, I wrote about building a position of continuous survival. Looking back, building that stream of sustained revenue was more than just luck and hard work. It was
Demanding excellence I wonder if it is a false dichotomy between demanding excellence and being liked. Being liked has it's perks and I am envious of those perks because they are rare and fleeting for
I doomed myself to failure because I live in Singapore Growing up as a teenager, I consumed American drama exclusively and built friendships with fellow American hackers. Inadvertently, I longed to go to the US and even live there. In my interview with
I am working on a tool that I hope will knock down these walls permanently Straits Times is going bankrupt, so they made a paywall -- Straits Times Premium. Immediately r/Singapore on Reddit built a bot to repost the blockaded content for all to enjoy. The problem
I was in the worst class in Anglican High - AHSEC4G I was in the worst (performing) class in secondary school. I am not sure how well it does now, but Anglican High was a good school that ranks in the top ten. I
I screwed up my weekend project Sometimes, I envy smokers because they always seem so relaxed while smoking. My drug of choice is programming. I am lost in my head when I am in the zone, arranging lego blocks
This is how you can learn TypeScript in 5 minutes Warning, technical post alert.I have been programming in the last two weeks, and boy do I miss it. We have been using a variant of CoffeeScript, known as iced-coffeescript. It is like
I found a parent on the internet when I was 14 I spent a significant bit of my teenage life on the internet. I trafficked pirated content that was sold downstream by pirated DVD vendors, otherwise known as warez couriering. I hacked US military
Leveraged cadence; exponential progress I watched an interview of Quek Siu Rui, CEO of Carousell, on Bloomberg TV. He spoke about being lucky enough to work on a product that he cares about passionately.But which came
Joke: we sold our first CCTV (after I canceled the product) Look what I put together today. I have had my fingers busy this week, getting involved in the actual productization process in our next experiment. Programming gets me ticking. As a decent programmer,
Told my wife today that I might find a job My brother is in Dublin, working for the DynamoDB product under Amazon AWS. Before Amazon, he worked for Skyscanner. My brother is quite an engineer with an attitude, and he loves working with
What I said to investors after I canceled Sapiengraph I was pitching right up till I decided to stop working on Sapiengraph. Perfect setup for some awkward emails but it has to be done. This is the email that I sent: Hi
Open-sourcing Sapiengraph CCTV This is a technical post separated into two parts. One readable, the other not (to most).I will start with an introduction to Sapiengraph CCTV, and how we, as a company, sought out
