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We did a 3-day Royal Caribbean cruise from Singapore with a stop in Penang, Malaysia. This was my first time cruising in Asia. Unlike the Caribbean and French Polynesia, most passengers were from Chinese and India. And this reflected well […]

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End-to-end testing of mobile apps

August 1, 2023July 30, 2023 0

Google released a new version of the Google Auth library. It had a bug that broke Google Login on Android for API 26 and earlier. This impacted my small but popular Music Player app in Google Play. It reveals the […]

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Play-to-earn games

July 24, 2023June 17, 2023 0

With Axie Infinity, there is a sudden rise of play-to-earn games. At least the way I see is that the core idea is that financial benefits of in-game purchases accrue to the network instead of just the game studio. But […]

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Book Summary: The half-life of Facts by Samuel Arbesman

July 16, 2023June 21, 2023 1

The Half-Life of Facts is a provocative book that makes us realize that a lot of facts that we believe are factually true get overturned over time. It gives several examples of facts that were later proven wrong or became […]

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Santiago (Chile) in 4 days

July 9, 2023July 30, 2023 0

Chile is one most remote countries in the world to visit. It is far from Europe. It is far from Asia. It is far from North America as well. And the country is deceivingly large. Unlike the USA, Canada, or […]

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Too much documentation is harmful

July 1, 2023July 5, 2023 0

As code changes, documentation becomes stale over time. This happens at big companies. This happens at small companies. Unlike code, documentation is not compiled or tested. The code is executed. If the code execution fails or produces incorrect results, it […]

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Book Summary: The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

June 17, 2023June 17, 2023 0

The book is a memoir of John Perkins who worked as an economic hitman.

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