Personal on Experiment, Fail, Learn, Repeat

Chrome Extension to get rid of Youtube Shorts

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I hate Youtube Shorts with a passion. Youtube shorts are a plague in my ways and it seems to be that it’s main purpose is to drag me down to waste hours of my time watching stupid short clips that are usually only mildly amusing. And at the end of it all, I don’t feel satisfied or feel entertained after wasting hours on it. (Maybe it’s just my age catching up to me and myself going with the usual trend of old people hating the new hype thing)

A Weight Loss Journey

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Before reading on, I’d just give a disclaimer here that any experience recounted here does not count as medical advice. As with anything to do with health or your body, do seek the appropiate medical channels (your doctor etc). Whatever things that is mentioned here might work for my case but it could be completely diferent for each person’s case due to different past diets/medical history.

Application Performance isn't the most important factor in application development

Sun, 20 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

NOTE: This post is only my personal view during my course of work across application development and devoloper operations roles across multiple roles and multiple companies and side projects. This might probably sound like random rambling to a software developer that is working in the industry but sometimes, it gets pretty irritating where people throw reasons that certain decisions should be made for “performance” and provide vague reasons for it.

Bus Arrival App - Singapore

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This is a quick sample tool to retrieve bus arrivals in Singapore. In order to use it, we would need to find for the Bus Stop ID or Bus Stop Code from where we’re taking the bus from. After keying it, it would fetch the records from LTA Datamall’s real time bus arrival API and present those records in this tool.

BMI Calculator

Sun, 05 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

BMI or Body Mass Index is calculated by taking one’s weight (in kilogram) and divided by the square of the height of the person (in metres). You can utilize the following tool below to quickly calculate this.

Charting a career path in the tech world

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

DISCLAIMER: The following article is just an opinion. Naturally, each person have their own work experiences that they can use to project their future plans; so take the items in this article with a large spoonful of salt when applying it into your own perspective.

Recording demos with free tooling

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

There are various tooling out there that helps deal with screen recording etc. However, many of these tools/sites would somehow provide the recordings at a price. Maybe you can only record a certain number of hours of video per month? And the videos are non-downloadable (unless you pay for it) and it would expire after a set period.

Tips for Class 3 license in Singapore

Fri, 20 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

These are some notes that I took while taking my driving license - Class 3 in Singapore at CDC from August 2019 to December 2019. Some of the advice may/may not apply to you when learning to drive - so take all advice with a grain of salt.