Blog list

Moving to NixOS

2024-04-27

For the last couple of months, I've been trying out NixOS on my old 2015 Dell XPS 15. It's one of those laptops that are old enough that you can't do much on it because the CPU is pretty slow at this point, but still good enough to test some stuff with.

Learnings from working at a Japanese startup

2023-07-12

startup business

What are your impressions of Japan? Great food? Clean? Safe? Polite people? Great service? These are all true. It’s no doubt that Japan is a great place to visit for vacations, but how about working at a Japanese company?

HEEx on Doom Emacs

2023-04-05

development emacs

A quick setup guide for .heex files on Emacs. At the time of writing, Doom Emacs only supports up to 28, and 29+ are not supported yet.

Command palette with Alpine.js and FlexSearch

2023-04-03

development

Command palettes are generally cool, at least I think so. Not sure if it's the original, but the first one I recall seeing it in use was Macintosh's search bar feature.

Over engineering a website overhaul

2023-03-31

side‑project development

If you've visited my personal website before, you can see that it looks completely different now. After leaving oVice at Feb 2023 – which I'm thinking of maybe writing about the learnings in the near future –, I've been taking some time off, working on some side projects, including redoing this very website you're looking at right now.

Joining oVice as VP of Engineering

2021-09-23

engineering startup

Cloudflare's office at 101 Townsend San Francisco September 3rd, 2021 was my last day at Cloudflare. It was an exciting 2 years, being in the front seat of a fast-growing company.

Shutting down LivePing

2020-01-18

side‑project

LivePing started as a side project in early 2019. At first, I was just trying to deal with the pain handling Cron tasks and offline workers, and looking into existing solutions wasn't very satisfying.

Launching LivePing

2019-11-10

side‑project monitoring distributed‑systems

Cron, the time-based scheduler available on any modern-day operating system which runs predefined jobs, or scripts in a consistent manner.

Being An Emacs User In 2019

2019-06-21

emacs editor

Web development technologies, especially front-end related ones are changing rapidly in the past few years. One of the unexpected areas they have entered (personally) are the text editor space.