Such an irony

I hate hatred (IRONY)

April 7, 2014 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Code to learn, learn to code

Since I started learning to code formally at university, I always have doubt on programming class. Before enrolling into university, I learned to code through books and the Internet. But the programming classes during my bachelor degree were comprise of 4 hours of programming lecture on theory and 2 hours of programming tutorial per week. The classes were utterly boring especially for the lecture. I do not know how effective is the format for others but I personally felt I learn less than 10% in lecture and 40% in tutorial class....

April 6, 2014 · 2 min · Shern Shiou Tan

NGINX for Ghost Blog

Just wanna share the configuration for my NGINX that I used to front as proxy for this Ghost blog. As you can see I used pagespeed to increase the page performance and optimize the html pages. You may check on the configuration to replace Ubuntu NGINX with built in pagespeed at: http://blog.shernshiou.com/build-nginx/.

March 31, 2014 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Workstation Setup

What’s your workstation setup? Here’s mine: Desktop An old pal which I used since my final year of bachelor degree. It has gone through several iterations. CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 (2.33GHz) Motherboard ASUST P5G41T-M LX RAM 8GB DDR3 GPU NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Harddisks SAMSUNG Spinpoint 1TB, WD 320GB, WD 80GB Monitor Dell U2311H Keyboard Keycool 87 Cherry MX Blue with Gray PBT and other el-cheapos I hope to upgrade this soon because it doubles as my entertainment machine...

March 30, 2014 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Human's Nature: Vegetarianism is the new Monogamous

Introduction Defying the law of nature maybe one of the differences between human and other creatures on the Earth. Our ability to adapt to these dynamic environment not only prevented the human to go extinct but also making us stronger. Being culturally monogamous in recent times is one of the feature where human has demonstrated our ability to defy the natures. The hypothesis here is if human has changed from polygamous to monogamous in order to survive then we have a chance to be culturally vegetarian in the coming years to prevent us from going extinct....

March 6, 2014 · 5 min · Shern Shiou Tan