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2021
The year 2021 was a year filled with anxieties, excitement, and challenges. Let’s start with books. I only read six books. That means it took me two months to finish a book. It was a record low si...
Writing docs has always been an afterthought for engineers. As an engineer becomes more experience, docs is seen as an important part of the software development cycle. This book has clearly def...
It’s amazing to read about the less known part of the story. I am glad there are people who truly care about what they do. After reading this book, the biggest concern is CDC. What were they doi...
I picked up this book because I enjoyed a lot with “The Martian”. In some part was a drag, but it was a good emotional journey of one being alone in a place.
In recent years, I started using Kindle as my primary source of reading. Occasionally, I still buy physical books. Once I finish reading a book from Kindle, I can just leave it as it is, but when I...
I recently bought a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. My intention to do with this device is to learn hardware development. When I was setting up this device, I downloaded Ubuntu for Raspberry Pi. I also dow...
I've decided to become a full-time individual contributor at HashiCorp and will no longer be an exec. This is something we've planned for years and I'm so happy HashiCorp is in a place ...
I am really glad that I picked up this book. It is a very good read especially if you want to understand how mRNA vaccines came up as one of the ways to combat COVID-19. This book gave me just e...
There are many choices to set up a Laravel development environment. I think in general, the Laravel team has provided many good choices to get the development started. If you are really starting f...
I recently spent couple weekends to build a product in an auto deployment space. About two years ago, I started implementing CI/CD into all existing legacy projects. The result was good. After the...
A day has 24 hours, commit 8 hours to sleep and 8 hours to work, the remaining 8 hours is for anything you want, supposedly. On a non physical distancing time, most people spend 2 hours a day on c...
Note: After I bought this book, Mr. Bezo announced his transition from CEO of Amazon to chairman. While I was reading this, I thought this might be a good book to reflect Mr. Bezo’s time as the C...
An engineer ought to be flexible when it comes to solving a problem. In an approach to solving a problem, it is not about using your favorite tool to solve a problem, it is about using the right t...
As a programmer working mostly on the web, I am lucky to have opportunities to work on various parts. From database, backend, frontend, to Linux, and cloud services. I cannot say I am expert in on...
In 2021, let’s do this. Read 24 Books Reading 2 books a month. Exercise If I still cannot go swimming, I will do push up and sit ups. Knowledge Renew my AWS DevOps Engineers certificate. ...
2020
By this time, we already knew how social media changed our lives. This book layout the facts and suggestion on how we can move forward from embracing this era. I agreed with the author saying we...
2020 was a weird year, but it was not all lost. I spent a lot more time at home with my family. We spent less time taking my children to different activities to “occupy” their time, instead, we spe...
The thing I got from this book is EQ is important because it helps you to stay clear headed when outside influence is factoring in. If one has a high IQ but cannot handle pressure or emotional , ...
I really enjoy reading this book. It gave me more information about the open source history, its philosophy, and its current progress. I think it is helpful for anyone who uses any open source p...
Jetstream was released alongside with Laravel 8. It has all the modern authentication method built-in. For example, profile image, password management, two factor authentication, browser session ...
I enjoy this documentary. Social Media is not bad, but it has a problem. It enables us to create a comfort zone and it enables us to create a bubble for ourselves by telling ourselves that we are...
Laravel 8 is to be released on September 8, 2020. Along with the framework upgrade is the change in Laravel Installer. Up until Laravel Installer version 3.2.0, when you do laravel new <project...
The Unicorn Project told the DevOps story from developers side. The stories were inspired by real event from various company. As a software developer who has been working on DevOps in the past 3 ...
The ICMP setting on AWS security group. ingress { protocol = "icmp" cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"] from_port = 8 # ICMP type number to_port = 0 # ICMP code } If the protoco...
I started using VS Code (Code) because I had to work on a project using AWS CDK. Code has an official extension for CDK. At first, I found there are so many functions in Code that I was overwhelm...
It is benefit to work on a team that allows you to be a generalist. I started off as a back-end developer, but I was allowed work on the front-end, server administration, and cloud infrastructure...
Laravel first party package Sanctum solves the token based API implementation. Sanctum makes it very easy making your API accessible for a Single Page Application (SPA) or Token-based application. ...
The Laravel Queue is very powerful, but if you are not processing a job from Laravel, it will not work. The setup below is an idea on how to create a queue worker and setup a runner. Create a wor...
I never thought about sleep before I read this book. I thought it was just a part of life. After I read this book, I found sleeping is more important than I previously thought. I started tracki...
I have an opportunity to build an application using Go. Go is a simple to learn programming language. The code wrote and read more like spoken language. For example: In go: func message(greet...
I enjoy reading this book. This book explains how good or bad habits are form, how to build the good and eliminate the bad. The story about successful people hits home to me. We always hear suc...
Extreme Ownership is not only about leadership. It is about everyone owning what they are responsible for. Every topic is tied to a stroy the author experience in the Iraq war and a scenario in ...
I have been using Visual Studio Code (VS Code) a lot more lately. There are a lot of features in VS Code. It was overwhelming in the beginning because there are so much. After I subscribe Learn V...
A good software comes with a good documentation. I finished reading the Technical Writing course to improve my technical writing. I did not know using active voice, starts verb in each bullet poin...
I think there are a lot of tools and programming languages. Some tools make me happy and productive and some frameworks make a programming language fun to use. macOS makes a Linux like environment...
This book made sense to me. I enjoy reading this book and got a good start on learning how to “read” people. The most important of all, I started to understand more about myself. What is my stre...
I was interested in this book because I want to learn about what challenges do a new company faces. I learned more than that after finishing the book. Define Company of One A person of a compan...
tl;dr version of getting Vue unit testing starting on a Laravel app. NPM npm install –save-dev @vue/test-utils mocha mochapack npm install –save-dev jsdom jsdom-global npm install –save-de...
Laravel 7 is almost here, after watching the Laracon Online talk, I am very excited about this release. The new features I can relate to are HTTP Client, Fluent String Operations, and artisan test ...
If you are coming from jQuery, this is the most important diagram you will need to start your journey in Vue JS. Understand the lifecycle and you are off to a good start.
At first I was intimated by the length of the books, but it was a really a page turner. After finishing this book, I have broaden my view on the humanity and my perspective of the history. I am ...
I like GitHub actions, except that I cannot test it locally the same way I can do on GitLab with gitlab-runner. I have no idea how GitHub CI, I mean Actions, runs so fast. There must be some sor...
The EC2 Image Builder creates a “Golden Image” for running EC2 instances. It is the most basic form of using AWS EC2 before Docker or Kubernetes were introduced. The problem it solved for me is ...
It is totally worth it if it takes 10 minutes a day to quiet down our mind. In this book, it gave some example and guidance on doing meditation. It is not religion related, it is mostly about le...
I don’t know the angle of the documentary trying to view from, but it is very sadden to see a person with all the goods happened to him and the bads just caught up in his life. This documentary is...
Office Using AmazonBasic laptop stand to raise up the laptop. A 22-inch monitor as the main monitor and roate another 22-inch monitor for easier to read documentation. The first generation of A...
In the beginning, I was a BASIC “programmer” because I want to stop dying in Nibble. I took a computer science in college, humble by alogrithm, math, and compile time with C++. While I was wonderi...
In 2020, I want to advance what I did in 2019. Read 30 Books In order to archive this, I am going to cut down reading news and social media. Limit myself to maximum 15 minutes for each of these f...
2019
It has been a good year. I finished 19 books, deploy couple applications, more hands on project on DevOps, and contribute to the open source projects. I started to learn work on Machine Learning. ...
This is the 20th anniversary edition of the book. I really enjoy reading this kind of “soft” topic programming books and I think it’s important for me to upgrade with these soft skills and take o...
Picked up this book because I need to freshen up my python skill to work on Machine Learning stuff. It’s easy to read and I picked up many techniques with Python.
When I was setting up a brand new server on AWS, sometimes a valid certificate with Apache is not required because the instance is sitting behind a load balancer and inside a private network. I us...
Last year, I had the worst time with the reInvent conference even though I passed the DevOps Professional. This year was different. The conference ran more smoothly. The content hub really helpe...
Create AR Web App (ARV303) I thought the instruction was not too clear. I had to redo some steps and I had to call for couple helps to overcome the steps that I was blocked. I thought the worksh...
DIY Runbook (SEC318) Security is serious and it’s something that mid-size companies that are lack of. This session intoduce the idea of having a runbook to protect the company’s digital assets a...
DeepComposer (AIM223) AWS is really into pushing developers to work on Machine Learning. This year at the reInvent conference, AWS introduces DeepComposer. It is a Generative Neural Network. You...
Keynote A lot of services were announced. Two things I am really interested are Sage Maker Studio and Code Guru. I am not sure how it will turn out. AWS Security (SEC201) This is a leadership ...
Machine Learning Exam Prepareness There are so many service Amazon provides. This prepareness course helps me focus on the exam requirement and area of expertises are needed to be a Machine Lear...
This book covers the theory of machine learning and using TensorFlow framework to train machine to learn.
The documentation in Laravel gives you how, but this book will bring you the why and how of developing with Laravel. Recommended for people who wants to quickly build a web application with Lara...
I have a tasks schedule to run every Monday and Wednesday, I set the scheduler to run like below: // Incorrect. $schedule->command('inspire') ->weekly() ->wednesdays() ...
The science and the twist. It probably will be on the movie screen soon.
I picked up this book because I heard Dave Ramsey’s podcast. In his book, along with his style of speaking in the podcast, the topic are very straight forward and simple steps (but challenging) ...
This is how you freeze a column or a row when using Laravel Excel. class User implements WithEvents { public function registerEvents(): array { return AfterSheet::class => funct...
I could not understand what the designers were looking at until this book explained it from a developer point of view. I think leaving the designer to do the designing work is a better way f...
https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=manager%27s+path&qid=1564602380&s=gateway&sr=8-3 At the first year of my career, ...
I disagree with most of the contents in this book. 10x engineer does not exist, but the author insists it does. The author glorified the founding developers and diminished developers who ma...
class DeveloperTest extends TestCase { /** * Why? */ public function we_all_should_write_test() { $this->assertTrue(true); } } If you don’t know where to star...
When I started with Laravel, nested resource group was available. I liked it because I can easily create a beautiful URL with ease. For example, to generate an URL like this/user/1/blog/10, I just ...
In Laracon, you usually get some hard technical talks and some soft talks. I recommend to check out @bobbybouwmann if you already have at least one year of Laravel experience, @gonedark and @coli...
https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspiration-ebook/dp/B00FUZQYBO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Pixar makes incredible movies and tells amazing s...
When you have a test that uses a class that pull data from an external API, it might be a good idea to mock this object so it does not reach anywhere outside of your local development or your CI s...
https://www.amazon.com/Bullet-Journal-Method-Present-Design/dp/0525533338/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1KZA7X6PA5NYW&keywords=bullet+journal&qid=1561215825&s=gateway&sprefix=bullet+journal%2C...
https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Design-Patterns-Brain-Friendly/dp/0596007124/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UY7IFJZT3OLP&keywords=headfirst+design+pattern&qid=1561215309&s=gateway&sprefix=hea...
TLDR; I just did a project using Tailwind CSS. It's as good as it advertised. I came from working with Bootstrap for a long time. It has been my go to HTML/CSS framework. I can quickly bui...
內容有點混亂，但仍能在其中學到一些做決擇的技巧。
最重要的不是包裝，而是內容。因為包裝能吸眼晴，內容能知識到遠方。 這本書就是教怎樣包裝好內容。
I use multiple two virtual machines that were built with Vagrant. It is a pain most of the time to shutdown both of them when I am done for the day. I wrote the scripts to shutdown all the runn...
I really enjoy this course. It not only covered the PHP package development but also covered topics beyond that. For example, it explains the versioning, CI, style CI, importance and guide...
https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-College-Surprising-Countrys-ebook/dp/B000FCK2XS/ref=sr_1_1?crid=14WBQMYVHYUBD&keywords=how+to+win+at+college&qid=1558643722&s=gateway&sprefix=how+t...
https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Minimalism-Choosing-Focused-Noisy-ebook/dp/B07DBRBP7G/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3AFTWR5POCPBQ&keywords=digital+minimalism&qid=1558388634&s=books&sprefix=digi...
I recently traveled to Asia for vacation. It was located at a 16 hours different time zone from home base. It was not my first time travelling to Asia and I always had a hard time adjusting to ...
Homestead and dnsmasq In Laravel, there are two out of the box setups. One is using Homestead and the other one is using Valet. I personally prefer using Homestead because it is entirely ...
I am not going to bring a laptop to the sessions in tech conference except workshop that requires it. Let's see how it goes.
I was working on a site and uses Steve Schoger's Heroicons. The Heroicons are svg based and it works best with SVG using HTML inline. I wrote a custom blade directive so that I can include the ...
https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Startup-ebook/dp/B078VW3VM7/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1550683583&sr=1-1&keywords=bad+blood I simply amazed how insane th...
The resource controller contain a method for each of the available resource operations. For example: Route::resource('photos', 'PhotoController'); is handle by the verbs in the controller. ...
https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Risk-Michael-Lewis-ebook/dp/B07FFCMSCX/ref=sr_1_1_twi_kin_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1549471186&sr=1-1&keywords=the+fifth+risk+michael+lewis I reenfor...
If you are using Laravel Homestead for your local development, when you setup using The Public Disk, the command php artisan storage:link needs to be run inside Homestead.
Google announced their plan to shutdown Google+ by March 2019. Along with the Google+ platform, the Google+ API will be depreciated too. On Laravel Socialite, it used to use Google+ to authentic...
https://www.amazon.com/Doesnt-Have-Be-Crazy-Work-ebook/dp/B079WV79TK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548174495&sr=8-1&keywords=it+doesn%27t+have+to+be+crazy+at+work It doesn't have to be cr...
Collabocats After you forked a project and merged back to the original, you can simply delete the forked project. If you are like me, I always forgot to delete the forked project. When I nee...
Office I have external two monitors and I kept the laptop open, but I think I can survive with two monitors. The main monitor usually use for the text editor, terminal, and browser. The monit...
2018
It's has been a good year. There are some ups and downs, but I think it's mostly up because I chose not to remember the downs. This year, I exceeded my expectation on the number of books I read...
The Laravel Socialite uses Google+ API to authenticate user, but since Google+ API is shutting down, the https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/me will no longer works. If you are curre...
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1075408490812690432 A tweet from @dhh I think this can be done. (or should be done.) More than happy to join the team.
https://www.amazon.com/Bored-Brilliant-Spacing-Productive-Creative/dp/1250126657/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1544645619&sr=8-1 Bored and Billiant by Manoush Zomorodi Alon...
https://www.amazon.com/Remote-Office-Required-Jason-Fried-ebook/dp/B00C0ALZ0W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1547745529&sr=8-1&keywords=remote+dhh
On occasion, you want to build an application to interact with G Suite without logging to the console. The G Suite Admin SDK is a tool for the purpose. In authentication, there are tw...
https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Humans-Humorous-Software-Engineering/dp/1484221575/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1541530434&sr=8-2&keywords=managing+humans
https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Master/dp/020161622X I think whatever programer theory I learn in the past 3 years was already told from this book which was written 19 years ...
https://www.amazon.com/Goodbye-Things-New-Japanese-Minimalism-ebook/dp/B01HDSU7KE/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1537805482&sr=8-5&keywords=minimalism+japan A book about minimalism, it triggere...
https://www.amazon.com/Obstacle-Way-Timeless-Turning-Triumph-ebook/dp/B00G3L1B8K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537805353&sr=8-1&keywords=obstacle+is+the+way+book The title said it clearly abo...
https://www.amazon.com/Rework-Jason-Fried-ebook/dp/B002MUAJ2A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1537464473&sr=8-2&keywords=reworks I learn so much from this book by unlearning all the popular cult...
https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Architecture-Craftsmans-Software-Structure/dp/0134494164/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1536265542&sr=8-2&keywords=clean+architecture In one shot, I read two books ...
https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Coder-Conduct-Professional-Programmers/dp/0137081073/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1536265495&sr=8-4&keywords=clean+code It's exactly what the sub title said, it's...
https://www.amazon.com/Undoing-Project-Friendship-Changed-Minds/dp/0393354776/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536077203&sr=1-1&keywords=undoing+project After reading the Thinking, F...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393338096/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i9 Again, a fan of Michael Lewis, so I read Home Game. If you are a dad, you will get this. End
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039333113X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i12 I am a Michael Lewis fan, so I read Coach. The story was surrounded by Coach Fitz, who was Michael Lewis's baseball coac...
https://www.amazon.com/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/1591846447 The core is "Why", then it's layered with "What", and surrounded by "How". I reflected on my career so far, I started as a "H...
https://www.amazon.com/Brotopia-Breaking-Boys-Silicon-Valley/dp/0735213534 What didn't happen to me does not mean it does not happen elsewhere. I was really sadden by hearing the "so called nerd/ge...
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="320"] 在咖啡冷掉之前[/caption] 可能本人不是這本書的目標讀者，但這是一本不錯的小説。 我覺得就如作者所説一樣，好像是在讀舞台劇的劇本。聽説會改成電影，個人有一點期待呢。
有趣的書，不仿在工作時的休息時間一讀。
一本有趣的心理學書。用故事的型式介紹阿德勒的心理學。 其中一點我很認同：別人怎樣看是不能控制的。 做事不能朝著他人反應做，盡心做了自己的能力，就可以了。
書中有幾點是值得細心想想，我們自己覺得對人的善良，是否有著別人一定要接受的前提？ 別人不接受時，應該如何反應？
https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/0988262509 I thought this book was telling jokes in IT similar to the Silicon Valley TV show. I was looking for entertainment, but ...
被書名吸引了，買回家看看。 每一個作者，同一個人物名字，寫每一個年代。 起初有點不太適應，因為每一個作者有他們的風格。 但當學懂了讀完每一個年伐，停一下，想一想，才開始讀另一個年代，就好很多了。 也許就如人生，每一個年伐（或每一件事），先停，回想，才繼讀前進吧。
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1522712704&sr=8-1 Unlike the author who was able to explain so eloquently eve...
https://www.amazon.com/Rooster-Bar-John-Grisham/dp/0385541171/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520731215&sr=1-1&keywords=rooster+bar+john+grisham I listened to this book. An entertai...
https://www.amazon.com/Astrophysics-People-Hurry-deGrasse-Tyson/dp/0393609391 Astrophysics, to me, is a topic reserved for some really smart people. My initial motivation to read this book was to m...
https://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy/dp/0691170819/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 It does not matter where you live, you must have seen one of the container boxes on a truck flying th...
https://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/1455509124/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1515219996&sr=1-1&keywords=so+good+they+can%27t+ignore+you I think I should call myself...
2017
https://www.amazon.com/Hit-Refresh-Rediscover-Microsofts-Everyone/dp/0062652508/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1513034389&sr=8-1 Hit Refresh written by Microsoft's third CEO Satya ...
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/dp/1455586692/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1512783073&sr=1-1 In the digital age, information are widely available anyw...
After almost a year on leaving WordPress to Medium, I decided to (partially) move back to WordPress. It was the one feature I cannot live without from WordPress. It was the automatically embed of b...
https://www.amazon.com/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-Nick-Bostrom/dp/0198739834/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512796048&sr=1-1&keywords=superintelligence The topic of Artif...
https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Brilliant-Successful-Children-Lifetools/dp/1433822393 The title is intriguing enough that when I read this book during break at work, I had to explain this book is n...
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https://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-Personal-Workbook/dp/0743250974/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512795913&sr=1-4&keywords=7+habits+of+highly+effective+people I really...
https://www.amazon.com/New-Thing-Silicon-Valley-Story/dp/0393347818/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1512795822&sr=8-1&keywords=the+new+new+thing I just finished reading another book from Michael...
This has to be one of the books that should be read for business and leadership. The title might lead you to think about the book is about using math to prove things around us, but it is actually ...
2016
Let's take a look at the goals I set for 2016. I accomplished 4 out of 5, just like the way I did for 2015. I found 2016 was a year of self improvement. I participated a challenge, improve my organ...
Doubt is a legal thriller about Caroline Auden, a computer programmer turned attorney, who fought a David versus Goliath case. The story did not have a lot of the courtroom drama, but it mostly to...
I use a Dell laptop with Windows at work, but personally I use a Macbook Pro. I write code and do productivity things on the Dell laptop with Windows at work. When I am at home, I use the Macbook t...
When I read WSJ*, it occasionally mentioned company trying to do business in China. Some of these companies success and some exit miserably. The companies that exiting the China market usually beca...
This is a legal thriller I found offered by Amazon to its Prime members with a Kindle. The main character of this book is an attorney name Joe Dillard. I felt this character became an attorney pro...
Which country are you rooting for in the Olympics? I got asked with this kind of question every time when an International event is about to happen. I was born in Hong Kong, educated in the USA, an...
Is a winning professional team the team that spend the most money? Can you measure something objectively when it has been measured subjectively over many decades? Moneyball: The Art of Winning an ...
[caption id="attachment_752" align="alignnone" width="194"] Mindset: The New Psychology of Success[/caption] Is there a genius? A natural born athlete? One is born with certain talent and they were...
It's my second father's day. My son did not make a card or paint of picture of me as a father's day gift, but yesterday in class, during music time, he took a bell from the teacher's basket after s...
[caption id="attachment_724" align="alignnone" width="264"] 陪孩子遇見美好的自己[/caption] 作者黃錦敦將自己輔導孩子的經驗紀錄在書中。作者是用敘事治療方式解開兒童心中的困惑。 我覺得用故事治療方式對孩子很有用處，因為孩子認識字不多，而又沒有足夠的經驗能讓解釋他們心中的感覺。用敘事手法是最好不過的...
I picked up this book after reading the Sprint book by Jake Knapp. Knapp said in his book that Getting Things Done was one of the book for future reading, so I went ahead and starting reading Gett...
Originals by Adam Grant talked about the people impacted the world were not born with certain traits. It started with his "failure to invest in Warby Parker" experience to point out that our wrong...
I like mobile payment, but not many gas stations are accepting it at the pump. When I saw speedpass+ by Exxon Mobile, claiming that you can pay gas at the pump with your phone, and there is a gas s...
選擇閲讀這本書完全出於因為久仰村上春樹這作者的名字. 當然, 讀完這本書後明白到為什麼他的作品這樣受歡迎. 簡單而細致地描述主角多崎作從現在尋找過去的答案, 輕鬆交的現代生活的場景, 這書完全沒有悶場. 唯有不滿足的就是結局沒有確定地寫出來. 我希望有實在的知道對多崎作造決定的的後果. 但沒有正面或許會給讀者更大的想像空間吧! 起初從書名以為多崎作是一個色盲的人, 原來書名是有另外一個原因...
I used to shop at Barnes and Nobles until I had more faith with online shopping with Amazon. I liked the physical touch of books and glancing at the books' cover sitting on the shelf. Barnes and N...
This book introduces another way to validate ideas. It explained how to validate an idea with the resources that you already have in a week. This book is kind of a guidebook and a storybook, to me...
One of the benefits of having an Amazon Prime and a Amazon Kindle is that many Michael Lewis books are available to checkout as the Kindle lender's program. Michael Lewis is one of my favorite aut...
本來以為這是一本家長求生手册, 給家長們一些貼示如何讓孩子少看一點手機. 但是書中沒有任何指南, 只是作者的生活手記, 可是讀後讓我有更多的啟示. 汪培珽分享自已的家庭生活, 有她自我的反醒和學習. 閱讀時會認為在作者對書中發生事情的反應是正常, 但是當那一克如果發生在自已身上, 恐怕自已沒有那種開放式態度面對. 但正因讀完這本書, 現在好像已有心理預備. 到真正發生時, 才知道吧. 看手...
This is a very exciting game. The Oklahoma City Thunders started the game with more than 10 points lead, but the Golden States Warriors kept the game close that they were able to tie the game at in...
I enjoy going to conference. It is because I not only able to learn deeper about the topic in the conference, but I was also surrounded by a group of people who share the same interest with me. I a...
He [Bill Gates] rarely posts negative reviews of books, explaining that he sees no need to waste anyone’s time telling them why they shouldn’t bother reading something. He doesn’t spare himself, th...
我是一個比較內向的人, 每次參加 conference 時, 都覺得是很不自然. 因為在 conference 中, 徐了能聽到演講外, 也會有很多志同道合的陌生人. 有時候在陌生人之中也可以學到很多不同的課題. 但是很多時會很困難, 因為大家都是陌生人, 開始新的話題不是很容易. 所以看見這本書時, 不禁很想看看作者有什麼的"秘訣". 書中題到不同的方法可供參考. 破冰是重要一環, 可以...
Today's challenge is to set priority. In modern days, we all have many priorities. The podcast talked about having too many priorities will actually make things stagnant. When we have too many prio...
Today's challenge is to have a face to face conversation instead of email, text, or IM. The research shows that it takes 7 minutes to know if the conversation is interesting. As we live in a email,...
Today is infomagical challenge #3. This challenge hits hard on me. I am the type of person wants to know about all the things that is around me. I want to have the information as much as the person...
Today's challenge is difficult for me. The task is to clean up my phone. Some of tasks I have already done prior to this challenge such as turning off notification. (partially done since I turn off...
Today I took the Infomagical challenge #1: Do one thing at a time. As we all know, multi-tasking is a myth, multi-switching is the truth. I do a lot of multi-switching at work. I know it is bad, bu...
Rosie Effect is the second book for Rosie Project. I really liked the first book, so when Rosie Effect was released in paperback version, I immediate get it and started reading it. However, it too...
Read -> Think -> Write I started the Read part and I want to reach the Write part. Writing requires thinking. Let’s do more writing in 2016.
In 2015, I set 5 goals and I accomplished 4 of them. I will continue these 4 goals as I already created a habit of doing it, so on top of these 4 goals, it’s time to set goals for 2016. Nature exp...
I had to look back my goals set for 2015. 4 out of 5. I didn't learn another language. :(
2015
How do you get your team to come to you constantly and asks "what do you want me to do"? It helps by letting your staff to be able to solve the problem on their own. Today, we have more workers pr...
I have been blogging about how much I love my Fitbit ever since I got it around June. However, I don't think I can recommend this product anymore. It is because this morning, my second Fitbit faile...
The Volkswagen's got caught cheating the test and now they are facing a lot of trouble. I like how one analyst reporting this news say: You can always pay the fine, but trust from the consumer, it...
I picked up this book after I watched the trailer of the movie with the same name. I was really intrigued by the movie trailer and I decided to read the book before I watch the movie. (I need to ta...
I picked up this book because: 1. I like The Flash Boy from the same author, 2. This book is included free of charge in the Kindle with Amazon Prime account. It worked out quite nicely for me. Thi...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="280"] 決定男孩一生的0~6歲教養法[/caption] I, again, picked up this book because I want to prepare myself for parenthood. There is a saying that a person's personality i...
I have been wearing the fitbit everyday since I bought it about a month ago. It has completely replaced my watch and it replaced my level of attachment to my phone. I got the fitbit because I want...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="273"] 自主學習, 決定未來[/caption] This is another book that I read to prepare myself for parenting. There are many good points illustrated in this book. These point...
I was at the bookstore browsing books about child education and I came across this book, 陪兒子說說話 -- 爸爸一定要告訴兒子的44件事. It was an interesting title because I was wondering what are the forty four things...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250"] Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt[/caption] I was intrigued by a co-worker was talking about how he heard a story on NPR that some wall street firm dig ...
I am not a good note taker. I usually write down the things I think is important during my days in school. I did not have a note taking system, it was mostly a bullet point format. It is the reason...
I thought Norte Dame had a chance to beat Kentucky but fell short. It reminded me of the NBA finals between San Antonio Spurs vs Miami Heat 2013. When Wisconsin advanced to the NCAA Final 2015 afte...
I learned about this book through the Bill Gates' reading list. Since I am doing the fiction and non-fiction rotation for my reading, I picked up this book for reading pleasure. The Rosie Project i...
Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras is a research book. In the book, it researched some of the successful companies such as 3M, P&G, Sony, and etc. It use a comparison method to ident...
I recently got an early access for the Sling TV service. If you are not familiar with the Sling TV, the Sling TV service is basically streaming live cable television (legally) over the Internet. A...
I partially agree when Kobe said European players are more skillful than American players. I haven't seen all European players, but the European players in the NBA are very skillful. Basketball is ...
It's that time of the year again, besides continue to spend quality time with family and be diligent at work, let's set some goal. Spiritual growth. Eat healthy. Commit 30 minutes of exercise (or ...
2014
I have been reading John Grisham's legal thriller since I first encountered one of his another novel called The Runaway Jury. Recently I picked up this novel, The Associate, as a pleasure read. The...
Over the weekend, I just took the Intro to iOS App Development with Swift from Udacity. (The course can be visit here: https://www.udacity.com/course/ud585) I took the course because I was interes...
what if? by Randall Munroe is about answering questions. The questions are ridiculous, but the answers were as scientific as it can be. As I was going through the questions I can't help myself to ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="228"] How Google Works[/caption] How Google Works was written by two long time Google employee, Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, about what they learn in...
What makes a company valuable? What makes a startup make or break? What is an entrepreneur? In Zero to One by Peter Thiel helps answer these questions. I enjoyed reading this book. It gives a lot ...
It's that time again! It's time to giveback to the community. I am offering to design and develop a landing page for one for profit organization and one for non-profit organization. It includes six...
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPaH44ISY20?rel=0&w=560&h=315] I really enjoy watching the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA 2013-14 season. I was really happy for them winning the NBA 2014 cham...
If there is a hashtag that represents me, it could be #kl or #KL11
Code complete 2 was published on 2004. It is a very good book to read if you are serious about software development. It has been 10 years since this book was published. It is still applicable that ...
The famous star of HTML5.
2013
The Amazon documentation says edit the exim.conf file, but it did not work for me. Editing the exim.conf.template did. sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-configLeave everything as default except changing ...
The NBA 2013-14 season has just started. There are many story lines in the NBA such as can Miami Heat get their third NBA championship, can Kobe Bryant returns to the NBA after a serious injury, ...
I had an interesting conversation the other day comparing stores based on the Walmart and Mcdonald standard. The following is a comparison. Walmart < Target/Trader Joe's/Fresh and easy <...
Just another update on the layout. Now it is nice and clean.
+ PHP is one of the most popular backend programming language use in 2012 (#5) and it will stay at the same rank in 2013. The strength of PHP is its simplicity and integration with HTML. Once yo...
+ AngularJS is great. I personally think it is an upgrade from jQuery. I have been testing AngularJS with Symfony2. One of the problems to build a web application with these two frameworks is th...
Always buy experience over material things.
I am always excited about Google I/O. Google's sessions in the conference are usually related to my work in web development. I always get some new insights about the latest technology and how I ca...
Own fewer things and treasure the one that owns...
If you want to learn more about this movie, just look at the review from Amazon or YouTube. The lessons I learned from watching this movie.- Improve your craft everyday because there are always r...
The Chromebook Pixel is the latest Google product that runs Chrome OS. (If you do not know how Chrome OS feels like, the easiest to test run it is by downloading the Google Chrome browser and run...
I just finished watching all 13 episodes of House of Cards. I am not going to discuss about this show, which is good and I recommend it, but I want to discuss about the availability of this show. H...
This page is broken when I translate from Blogger to Wordpress. The original link is here: http://kennithleung.blogspot.com/2013/02/fixing-chrome-extension-screen-capture.html
Project management, it is an art. It is a skill that requires understanding the resources you have and the goal you are trying to reach. It is easier to plan a project if the resource and goal do n...
There was a pretty good discussion on Hacker News today. It is still rank #2 by the time I checked again in the afternoon. I thought I would share some experience using Vim. Vim is installed on mos...
I bought a bottle of orange juice. It was $4.99. I also bought a bottle of herbal drink, it was $2.99. These two bottles were seal under the cap. That means I have to unscrew the cap and peel off t...
I stopped writing blog since I spent more time with Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. As a result, most of my "writing" tends to be short and without spending much thought over it. My writing bec...