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From Manager to Developer

  • May 31, 2020

    First six months of being a developer

    #coding

    In short: feeling overwhelmed

  • Jan 22, 2020

    My dream to work as a developer came true

    #coding

    It took me 3 years

  • Oct 14, 2019

    Enjoying Android development through pain

    #coding #android #java

    My first impressions after a few weeks of writing an Android app

  • Jul 3, 2019

    Life of a developer is not what I thought

    #coding

    Finally I understood this after 3 years of dreaming to be a developer

  • Jun 13, 2019

    Dockerizing Next.js application

    #coding #devops

    How to get a Next.js application into a Docker container

  • Jun 4, 2019

    Little joys of engineering manager

    #coding

    A few things that make me happy at work

  • Dec 11, 2018

    Failed to get freelance programmer job

    #coding

    Not good enough for Upwork

  • Nov 28, 2018

    Study Master's in NTU - continuation of my story

    #education

    My first semester experience

  • Oct 6, 2018

    What it feels like to study Master's in NTU Singapore

    #education

    Why I decided to study, and my first impressions

  • Oct 5, 2018

    Writing Context Managers in Python

    #python

    How to make python code more elegant using 'with' statement

  • Sep 20, 2018

    Using Selenium WebDriver and Python for site testing

    #python

    How to use Selenium & Python for frontend testing (with code examples)

  • Jun 29, 2018

    My first programming meetup experience

    #ilovecoding

    Finally made up my mind to attend a programming meetup in Singapore

  • Jun 5, 2018

    Do product managers really need to know how to code?

    #ilovecoding

    Recently I started questioning this statement. And well, I am not so sure any more.

  • Jun 2, 2018

    Bulk update records in MySQL DB with Python

    #python #mysql

    Using INSERT ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE

  • May 31, 2018

    Falling in love with Python

    #python #ilovecoding

    My first attempt of wriring a web scraper in Python - code example

  • May 28, 2018

    Why being a devops engineer is so cool

    #devops

    I finally understood it

  • Mar 2, 2018

    String matching in BigQuery

    #bigquery

    Matching two lists of geographical locations using BigQuery

  • Jan 11, 2018

    Redirecting GitHub Pages site to a custom domain

    #githubpages

    Step by step instruction on how to setup your own domain with GitHub Pages

  • Jan 6, 2018

    How I learned to code at the age of 38

    #ilovecoding

    A story of how I learned to code in 2017, and ended a year with 1384 GitHub contributions

  • Dec 23, 2017

    How to switch Jekyll theme on GitHub Pages site

    #jekyll #githubpages

    Changing theme of the existing Jekyll installation.

  • Dec 16, 2017

    How to create a blog using Hexo on GitHub Pages

    #hexo #githubpages

    Step by step instruction on creating a personal website using Hexo framework

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