Disclaimer: rant ahead. The other day I motorbiked from Chiang Mai to Pai back and forth for about 6 / 7 hours. I highly recommend the trip it the landcape and views are stunning. The next day I'm a bit
Trusting the Scientific Method: Divide and Conquer
That moment when you hit an apparent obscure stack trace: You're like f***. What does that even mean? I remember telling myself: "You will have a bunch of these going forward so better get a systematic
Advice to a Friend on starting out with HTML and CSS
This is an outbound email but thought it would be helpful to others. It's very important to have a fast feedback cycle. You're in luck: JSfiddle and codepen are very good at this. CSS-tricks is also a
At the beginning of the year, I was messing hard with Haskell trying to build a MVP. Got burned physically and emotionally. So I took 2 month off from programming, wrote, read and travelled instead. April
The other day I was poking at my computer and someone asked me whether I was working or learning. I answered both. It is the ideal. If you just work with no or minimal learning you will be left by the
Recently, someone asked me whether I was a digital nomad? I was like "yeah, I mean, you could say that". Also, another person asked me are you a programmer, my answer was the same. There are
People have been speculating on Ethereum's Killer App for a long time. It is Curation Markets. Simon de la Rouviere has been iterating on the whitepaper and has posted an introduction to it with a bunch
The way I see it, there is 2 main reasons why you would want to keep up with the news on Ethereum: Either you are building your Dapp (Decentralized application). You are investing in the platform. On the
I am still puzzled by the 24 seconds (2 blocks) of Brave's Basic Attention Token (BAT) crowdsale. I have never bought through an ICO but definitely couldn't participate as many others. I personally think
I just came back from a 3 day trekking with no electronic devices. No pictures taken. Completely disconnected. Lessons from it: I didn't miss anything significant Did me a lot of good (mentally) Though
I just got out from an Emergency room from a public hospital in Chiang Mai. While I was having 7 stiches on my chin, I found it funny how the doctor hid my head and only had my chin out. I couldn't help
When traveling, you meet people and you are pretty sure that you will never meet them again (most of the time). Being aware of this, you have no incentives for telling BS, you just want to get real because
Backstory: I met Howard (65 year old) at my hostel in Bangkok. The funniest thing, I was eating "durian", and he asked me questions about it. Then boom, an hour long conversation started and
Make your employees feel superior (with titles, clothes, status) to the general population and give them shitty salaries. Give them only perceived societal status (just the perceived notion that they have
I announced a week ago about upcoming crypto-series. I have noticed that I am struggling a lot on the BFS (Breadth First Search). I have thought of why, for a while. The reason is that I have a
Working strictly incognito prevents speed and delegation
A friend told me "whatever you do, do it incognito, until it is finished". This may have been a good rule of thumb in the past, but now the world is too complex to not get feedback on what you're
How much ads and tracking still follow you around?
Do you ever peek at the "network tab" when you visit a page? It's mindblowing how many requests your browser makes when you hit an endpoint. For instance: writing youtube.com then hitting Enter.
If you don't respect your time, nobody else will Time is your most valuable asset If you don't respect yourself, nobody else will How can a man live dignified without respect Not respecting your time means
Do you ever wonder how come you didn't get fired from your first job? That's only recently I have been puzzled by this and yes, I was super lucky. Made a lot of stupid mistakes... But, I had so much fun.
BackStory: VCR (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), was busy so I got asked to seat near an empty table next to a dude. We introduced one another and I noticed that there is a calculator, a pen and notebook. In my