Keyboard

I’ve been wanting a mechanical keyboard for a very long time. 2 weeks ago, I ordered a Keycool 87 (Tenkey-less) from Taobao. It just reached yesterday. As you can see, this TKL Keycool 87 came with top printed ABS caps. I dislike ABS caps because the surface will turn shiny over long usage hour. Therefore, I opted for a PBT side printed keycap. Oh BTW its the clicky-clacky Cherry MX Blue....

November 12, 2013 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Berries

We started growing berry trees long ago. Its time to multiply them. Week 3 Progress Updates: All 5 of them Strongest among all Smallest and weakest at the back

November 5, 2013 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Function Return

Normally, synchronous function can only returns one value. Therefore, it is better for asynchronous function to follow the same structure (to resolve only one value). In order to return multiple values for each call, it is advisable to use data structure such as array, dictionary…

November 1, 2013 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Building NGINX

If you would like to replace the current default NGINX package for Ubuntu with the latest version from source. This is the configuration I tested and used.

October 17, 2013 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Programmers' Negativity

Recently I came across an article touching on the impact of being too involved into a profession. Through my observation, I found out that my profession (programmer) has a major negative impact. I called it Programmers' Negativity. Programmers' Negativity (PN) is commonly found on a person after too many years engaging on coding, debugging or going through multiple SDLCs. A programmer has a habit to find bug and debug it. Everyday, we need to crush bug for our program to work flawlessly....

October 10, 2012 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan