When AI Agents Oversell and Damage Your Brand
A 3-agent architecture (SalesMaker, BrandDefender, Responder) can resolve the issue of AI agents overly focused on sales goals damaging brand integrity by ly...
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6 shades of project management tools — Which one should I use?
Everyone use some kinds of project management tools to get things done. The space is HOT. There are some newcomers such as Notion and Airtable. Most of the c...
How do we apply a sensible microservice architecture to GOGOVAN
Recently, we have a lot of discussions around microservice . At GOGOVAN, with a relatively small engineering team, how exactly do we apply the microservice p...
My Instagram got hacked, now what?
This morning when I woke up and did my daily routine of checking email, two very suspicious emails showed up in my inbox.
100 Words in 100 Days 10/100: An evolving API (10)
In last article, the structure of the code is not adequate for 2 developers to separate their work and be focus. And lack of focus is the number 1 productivi...
100 Words in 100 Days 9/100: An evolving API (9)
In last article, the team has put in new coding standard to make our code easier to understand and modify. In the next few weeks, they started to realize the...
100 Words in 100 Days 8/100: An evolving API (8)
In last article, the team has run into some unclear code with mutating object. This makes debugging very hard. Bob suggest the team to enforce 2 new coding s...
100 Words in 100 Days 7/100: An evolving API (7)
In last article, Lucy had run a post mortem with the team and things went pretty well afterwards.
100 Words in 100 Days 6/100: An evolving API (6)
In our last article we talk about the incident Lucy and her team faced.
100 Words in 100 Days 5/100: An evolving API (5)
In our last article, we preview about there will be a production bug coming up. Here are the production bug reports Lucy and Adam saw.
100 Words in 100 Days 4/100: An evolving API (4)
In our last article, our CTO Lucy and her new teammates Adam had developed 2 new features on the same API and in this article, they needed to merge them toge...
100 Words in 100 Days 3/100: An evolving API (3)
So in our last article our CTO Lucy added a new field in our API and implemented a crude version of API versioning. They are happy to get some angel funding ...
100 Words in 100 Days 2/100: An evolving API 2
In last article our startup CTO Lucy shipped their first version of API for announcing a request of van service in the system. Some of the engineers with kee...
100 Words in 100 Days(1/100): An Evolving API (1)
This is my second attempt to revive a habit to write technical article. Everyday. Let’s see how it goes.
How do I estimate my tasks
A short story of an ordinary discussion in GOGOVAN software engineering team
How to build robust GraphQL APIs
Just read this awesome article[1] in building GraphQL APIs. Github and facebook have created their own public facing GraphQL APIs. When I first dapple with t...
Golang-journey 101 - defer
I am trying to explore the possibilities of adding another tools in the arsenal of my team. Rails is awesome in rapid development, developing and iterating b...
How to make agile work as a developer? (Pt. 3)
Previously in Pt. 1 & 2, we discuss 3 tactics to discuss priorities and make sure all parties is aligned. The last part I can share some of the mindset c...
How to make agile work as a developer? (Pt. 2)
Previously in Pt. 1, we have discussed why developers in Hong Kong or Taiwan think scrum is not working for them and one of the tactics on how to start the d...
How to make agile work as a developer? (Pt. 1)
Today I came across a very thought provoking post about why scrum / agile doesn’t work in most of the company in Taiwan1. In essence, the author make a point...
1 function to call when setInterval has failed you
From time to time, we have to check if something is finished, or a particular script has been loaded successfully in the browser, we would make use of the se...
Why Machine learning tools need GPU to shine — a deeper look from software perspective
In our previous article, we have discovered GPU programming in the most unexpected place - an API of a SaaS product. It is the JQL of Mixpanel. And in this ...
Reducer in Mixpanel API is weird, but genius
Mixpanel had been a crucial tool in my previous 2 startup jobs. We have to compile a lot of different views for our team to make decision based on the Mixpan...
What a good team taught me about software engineering
Last year I was very privileged to work with some of best engineers you can find in the region. Together we delivered products in the top-most software engin...
The time Meteor Blaze data context screw me up
Originally posted in Medium
How a single icon delights 50% of our users
Originally post in Medium
The journey in MPM as a software engineer
Prelogue This is a shortened version of being a Software Engineer in MPM. MPM was providing mobile payment service for both consumers and merchants. Merchant...
WHY I…當上軟件工程師
原文於charizine.hk刋登。
Just Another Day in Android-land: Expandable TextView with Custom Ellipsis
After over 4 months of my first notorious “death march” our team can at last have life. I finally have time to write a custom component for my future use. It...
Just Another Day in Android-land: The unexplained Locale
Personally I think this is a very bad decision. But I have not tried hard enough to convince people it is a bad idea.
Just another day in Android-land: DatePickerDialog that honor the app locale
Recently our company needed to unify the whole app into one locale, we have faced obstacle in making the DatePickerDialog to use app locale instead of system...
Android Back Stack Best Practice (without action bar)
One of the recurring problem of developing Android application is the notorious back stack. In our application, we firstly following the o’almighty advice of...
Android Development: How the Spinner and PopupWindow finally clarify my misconception about Context
In my recent development, I have received a requirement to put Spinner inside a PopupWindow. I expected an easy task. When the popupwindow is shown, there wa...
Representing Statuses
When I am doing system Design, there are some recurring problems. One of the problem is to represent status of certain records. Take an example of a transact...
PHP is English
Recently many software gurus(e.g.: [Jeff Atwood](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/the-php-singularity.html & Fabien Potencier) whom I admired deb...
My killer interview question (for junior software engineer)
This post is full of ignorance. But my main point still stand.
Gotcha in CodeIgniter
After 2 months of hustling, the development phase of my first “big” project is over. In this 2 months, I had to spend half of my brain debugging and implemen...
My follow-up on dynamic typing
In my previous post, I’ve mentioned that it is up to the implementation to define whether the function will behave properly. Another issue that I can came ou...
Why i prefer static typed language
Yes. It is been a long time.
Where to fork a thread?
This is a repost of a post in Tumblr over a years ago. Time flies and I found the solution.