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This is a static site generated using Jekyll. It’s also hosted on one of my servers rather then on Git(Lab/Hub).I deploy it using a rsync to copy the _site directory to the serv... (566)
The Star is a popular newspaper in Malaysia.They published a couple of articles about sexual harrassement. In a country where FGM is swept under the rug as being “part of the cu... (163)
Startup founders tend to be an eccentric bunch. It’s almost a pre-requisite for a founder to be a bit delusional about their chances of success — even though most companies fail... (104)
Note that this is not taken from their documentation but from inspecting an iPay88 page that the user is redirected to.GeneralThese are the options that are available from the d... (461)
Due to non-existent consumer protection laws e-commerce in Malaysia does things that would be down-right illegal elsewhere. (289)
A startup targeting SMEs is compared to a Google Spreadsheet. (442)
Update: Feb 2021China-Based Executive at U.S. Telecommunications Company Charged with Disrupting Video Meetings Commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre I wonder who that could b... (674)
As the Corona lockdown measures relaxed Selangor quite quickly introduced Selangkah: a web app that captures users’ details when they visit a store. It was later followed by KLS... (716)
Supplybunny was featured in DigitalNewsAsia.com for our response to the pandemic: With business hit by Covid-19, Supplybunny turns on a pin to chart rapid growth. (28)
ACO is definitely not out of reach of any organization that could benefit from it. But, because it's quite a specialized tool neighboring on academia, the real challenge is knowing that it exists in the first place. (726)
Tech teams of smaller organizations, that are not startups, are often missing a difficult to perceive but very valuable skill: knowing what’s possible. That covers two similar c... (397)
Here are the more technical details of ACO implementation are discussed. The reasoning behind it and the conclusion are in a separate post.ImplementationI started off with an ex... (1795)
The beginning of the MCO was quite stressful but I’m happy about a small victory shown in this screenshot:Supplybunny site was live and taking orders the entire time, handling p... (280)
The beginning of the MCO was quite stressful but I’m happy about a small victory shown in this screenshot:Supplybunny site was live and taking orders the entire time, handling p... (280)
Yesterday, an article titled 9 signs that your business idea will probably fail was quite popular on HN.I didn’t completely agree with the justification regarding not being the ... (343)
That is going to be one of the key interview questions for a long while after the Coronavirus settles down. It’s very specific and generalized statements wont cut it. ... (504)
One of the questions I’m finding the most difficult to answer is: How much competition research is enough? You have to be aware of the market but can’t get paralyzed by it.NoneB... (369)
I keep having to look for these four tools when making PWA icons. Convert SVG to PNGhttps://ezgif.com/svg-to-png/ (set the width to at least 512) Make sure the icon ... (92)
I’d love to see more educational snippets in video games that are integrated into the story.Some examples:In racing games when upgrading components of the car perhaps the differ... (131)
The topic of funding open-source software comes up relatively often on HackerNews. It’s definitely not solved but very much worth solving. The value OSS creates is immense and i... (669)
There is so much duplication of work in tech. For a community that touts its efficiency it’s incredible just how inefficient it is as a whole.There is no functional mechanism fo... (696)
Other pricing strategies often create an adverse relationship. The best example of what happens when you remove the adversity from a relationship is Uber. (485)
It’s the little things that separate the normal from the delightful.They’re often the result of careful consideration when trying to answer: “And after this the user would want ... (195)
A useful pattern that I didn’t see documented before is what I call “state params”: returning different permitted params based on the state of the record.If there is an order mo... (180)
In the course of doing upgrades for an older project I’ve discovered that not every activerecord version is compatible with every mysql2 version. The adapters use ~> to lock ... (147)