Aug 1, 2021Obligatory blog post to explain why I moved from SSG GitHub Pages to GhostThis is a copy from my website https://louis993546.com. I won’t be posting anything to medium anymore. If you are interested, you can follow me there (RSS or mailing list). You can also follow me on Twitter @louis993546, which I often tweet whenever I upload a new good blog post. Like…Ghost8 min read
Mar 3, 2021I Used Jira & Confluence to Manage My Life for 3 Months. Here’s My ReviewBack in early December 2020, I wrote an article on how I was testing out Jira & Confluence as my management tool. And it’s about time for me to write down what I have learned. What was the plan? For all the reasons and context of why I do this, you can read it…Productivity7 min read
Dec 6, 2020My plan to become more productive in a month2020 is almost over, and I just so happen to have almost an entire month off to do whatever I want. One of the things I have learn about myself this year is that my productivity often relies on supervision & “too afraid to say no so now I have…Eisenhower Matrix9 min read
Aug 16, 2020Let’s see if Flipper can make me a 1.1x engineer 🧐Flipper is a debugging tool build by facebook, which in a sense is a spiritual successor to Stetho. For those who don’t know, Stetho is also a debugging tool, which allows Android apps to redirect a bunch of debugging data to chrome://inspect, most notably networking requests. I have used Stetho…Android5 min read
Jul 25, 2020Random Compose Project #1: Compose95Jetpack Compose is getting closer and closer to becoming “stable enough”, and for the next few weeks/months, I will be working on a bunch of completely random projects, and document what I have learned along the way. TL;DR: This is not tutorial/how-to of Jetpack Compose at all. This is just…Jetpack Compose4 min read
Jul 19, 2020Am I still taking photos in 2020? KindaMore than a year ago, I wrote about how I wanted to regain my love for photography. Which means it’s about time for a quick review. Now that I looked back at my last…Photography5 min read
Apr 8, 2020Went from “liking tweets about remote working” to “being 100% remote” in 1 dayToday is 2020 April 1st, and we are in the middle of a pandemic. Roughly 2 weeks ago, the company I worked for went “remote first”, and in terms of work, things are starting to get back to usual (well, as usual as it can get). So today, I’d like…Remote Working7 min read
Feb 26, 2020Mental Models of Jetpack Compose #4: Components and HindsightAfter months of procrastinating, I am finally getting to the last chapter of “Mental Models of Jetpack Compose”, at least for now. Today, we are gonna talk about components, and hindsight. Component If you just look at the basics structure of Component in React or Widget in Flutter, you will probably…Android5 min read
Feb 16, 2020How much am I really worth?In the last 2 days, the tech community on Twitter blew up with the #KnowYourWorth movement. The TL;DR it is to share your salary, so that minorities can have a better grasp of what the market rate is, instead of relying on anonymous sites that you never really know if…Knowyourworth5 min read
Jan 12, 2020From Android zero to kinda-middle: Basic shell script for Android devIt has been a while since I did my last “From Android zero to kinda-middle” series, and today I’d like to talk about shell script. WTF is shell script You can think of it as a scripting language + the program that interprets it. Why you should know shell script? All the buttons in Android Studio will ended up executing…Android App Development6 min read
