PKMS and Second Brain Toolings Journey Let's talk about PKMS and second brain. PKMS is personal knowledge management system. As a knowledge worker, we are capturing information, learning things, journaling and occasionally looking up those information. In the past, we used notebook. As our life is going more digital, we put the note in
Faster Typing with Dictation I am not a good typist. I type slowly and often make mistake. I had some attempts to speed up my typing speed. I used gtypist to practice in the past. It is very good software. However, I the speed still didn't improve so much and I just
The Ugly Movie Review The movie premise is interesting. Police called a man regarding A woman remains are found after 40 years missing. The man is the woman son. He never see his mother before. It is pretty emotional occasion which on top of this police also suspect there is a foul play in
Exit 8 Movie Review What if you stuck in a metro exit and keep looping to the same location again as you try to walk to any direction? In this Japanase movie, it is the core story on reflection of taking responsibility and making hard decision. The post won't give full spoiler
Killing 10 years old droplet About two weeks ago, I tried to update my blogs software infrastructure that are running on a Digital Ocean's droplet. The blog is not really active. I rarely write, but I intended to do more writing; therefore, I did the update. I do update once in a while,
Review Days at The Morisaki Bookshop Review Note: there will be no spoiler so feel free to read to the end of the post. The main reason I am getting this book is because of the cover. It is so nice, looks calming, and has a strong, good anime vibe. It is just like a movie poster.
The Last 11 Years This is the story of the last 11 years. Of two people which now becomes four. Neither they are an angel nor a devil. Just human beings who continuously learn to be a better version of themselves. This is the story of me and her. This is a story to
llvm LLVM dot-callgraph generates output dotfiles outside of the current directory LLVM dot-callgraph is one of the LLVM passes that will generate dot files of the program graph. Apart from dot-callgraph, there are also the following passes: dot pass nameDescriptiondot-callgraphPrint call graph to 'dot' filedot-cfgPrint CFG of function to 'dot' filedot-cfg-onlyPrint CFG of function to 'dot&
llvm Register xdg-open for xdot in WSL I have been using LLVM [https://llvm.org/]control-flow graph (CFG) pass for my static analysis research. Normally, I should be able to see the CFG of the intermediate representation of the program (IR) [https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html] by running: opt file.ll -passes=view-cfg Instead of opening
How not to procrastinate in 3 steps I often always be intimidated by my to-do list. Usually, I procrastinate, hoping post deferments I will feel better and can finish the task. It is a silly thing to do because deferment will make me feel much more horrible. I know what the issue is and how to work
Python Coding Workflow So far, I have never been using Python too much. However, I always want to understand it in and out for every day uses such as quick prototyping and complex scripting. Python is used a lot in some domain such as machine learning. Python has many libraries in different domains
mathjax Enabling MathJax in Ghost This short post will share of how to enable MathJax [https://www.mathjax.org] in Ghost blog. MathJax is Javascript display engine to render mathematics equation. The equation is written using LaTex syntax. The only setup that we have to do is to load MathJax script in all pages of
vagrant Multi Machine Setup in Vagrant Vagrant is tools to automate development and testing environment. It helps to setup virtual machines from declarative configuration file. Sometime ago I wrote a very quick introduction about vagrant [https://blog.lamida.org/vagrant-in-5-minutes/]. This post will go further by explaining how to setup multiple VMs. What is The Problem?
golang Go Modules in Action In Golang there was no official approach of how to manage dependency. Hence, in the early days of golang until recently, there were different ways in managing dependencies. In the beginning there is go get. It help to download package from the internet to your local directory which can be
Personal Super Late Personal OKR for 2018 The past one year is a really horrible year. I am performing horribly and I achieve minimally. This post is one of the indication. If one would like to set goal annually, he should set it by the beginning of the year. I am defeated by the power of procrastination.
unix Getting Started with emacs in 30 Minutes Emacs is a very extensible text editor that was started as far as 1970s. I have never really explored this editor much but somehow recently become interested to get to know this tool a bit more. This post will share a very quick journey of how setting up emacs and
golang Mocking in Golang Using Testify I have used golang for sometime but only recently I finally understand how to do object mocking in a golang test. Since I came from Java, the way of how mocking an object in golang was not really clear for me. This post is my self documentation of how I
vagrant Vagrant in 5 Minutes I have used vagrant since quite long time. With the recent devops movement, I want to revisit my understanding of the tool because it is very useful to use vagrant when you are simulating distributed system in your local machine. Of course the simulation wouldn't be 100% accurate
Late Resolution Note 2017 I totally forgot that I haven't released this post because my recent busy life. I am blessed with a baby early this year and I also move to a new company. But those two will be stories for another day. To ensure I am not breaking this couple
go Go Development in Ubuntu 16.04 Using Atom To install go, refer to this post [https://blog.lamida.org/go-development-in-ubuntu-using-vim/]. Installing Atom Add PPA and install atom. curl -L https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/gpgkey | sudo apt-key add - sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/any/ any main" >
go Go Development in Ubuntu 16.04 Using Vim In high level there are two ways to install the required golang and vim. The first approach is to use whatever version available in Ubuntu 16.04. The other approach is to use the latest version by using ppa. Using Default Package from Current Ubuntu Version Install Go sudo apt
Personal Six Years of Marriage I got married today six years ago. We only got to know each other shortly before taking that decision. But after several meetups, family visits, a lot of prays, a strong faith that made us believe we mean to be together, then it happened. It was quiet early evening in
Book Explain to Yourself TLDR: After reading or watching a lecture, try to explain to yourself what you have read and watch to improve the learning process. The biggest concern that I face in my learning process is I still haven’t learned effectively. In the past few years, I have tried to improve
Personal I Lost My Kid Earlier This Year I lost my first kid early this year. My wife got a miscarriage after she finally pregnant in 5 years. The feeling was like riding a roller coaster. It was hard but we have to move forward and cheer up again. Although very sad, we also learned many things. The
Algorithms Getting Your Head Around Tower of Hanoi In these past few days I have been learning recursion in attempt of refreshing my algorithms knowledge. Tower of Hanoi is an interesting practical example of recursion. Only after few hours today, thanks to this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuIneNBbscc], I can quite grasp the concept of
