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March 04, 2024

Why You Might Not Need Edge Computing for Your Project

In the evolving landscape of web development, edge computing has been heralded for bringing computation and data storage closer to the location where it is needed, aiming to reduce latency and improve user experience. However, it’s not a one-size-fits-all solution. Here’s why edge computing might not be necessary for your project: Database Compatibility Challenges Many […]

February 15, 2024

Transforming Project Management with Tulsk.io: A Comprehensive Guide

In the dynamic world of project management, the integration of technology, especially AI, is revolutionizing how we approach, plan, and execute projects. Tulsk.io, a cutting-edge AI-powered project management tool, is at the forefront of this revolution. This blog explores how Tulsk.io is reshaping project management methodologies, making them more efficient, adaptable, and user-friendly. Understanding Tulsk […]

June 22, 2023

Introducing Tulsk.io: My Journey in Creating an AI-Powered Project Management Tool

In the ever-evolving digital landscape, effective project management is crucial. As a software developer, I’ve always been fascinated by the potential of technology to solve everyday problems. This is what led me to embark on my latest side project, Tulsk.io, an innovative AI-powered project management platform. Over the years, I’ve worked on a variety of […]

June 06, 2023

Mastering Git: The Power of git commit –amend

One of the fundamental aspects of using version control systems, like Git, is making and managing commits. In this blog post, we’ll dive into one of the less-known, but incredibly powerful features of Git: the git commit –amend command. This command can be a real lifesaver, allowing you to tweak your most recent commit with […]

April 28, 2023

My Journey: Building and Selling an AI Itinerary App

I’ll be sharing the story of my entrepreneurial journey – from ideating and developing an AI-driven itinerary app to eventually getting it acquired. It’s a tale of passion, persistence, and learning valuable lessons along the way. The Idea and Market Research: I started by identifying a problem faced by travelers: the time-consuming and often tedious […]

March 21, 2023

Create a nextjs app with chatgpt api

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a powerful language model that can be used to create engaging chatbots, virtual assistants, and content generators. In this blog post, we will explore how to integrate ChatGPT into a Next.js application using the OpenAI Node.js library. We will provide example code to demonstrate how to make API requests and process responses […]

February 27, 2023

Optimizing your components with useSignal

State management is a fundamental part of building React and Preact applications. The useState hook is the most common way to manage state in React components, but there’s a new kid on the block that’s worth considering: useSignal. useSignal is part of the @preact/signals library, which provides a way to manage state using reactive principles. […]

February 19, 2023

Adding lang attribute to html tag in Next.js

The lang attribute in HTML specifies the language of the content of a web page. It is important to have the lang attribute set correctly on a web page for the following reasons: Accessibility: The lang attribute helps screen readers and other assistive technologies identify the language of the content and read it correctly for […]

February 13, 2023

20 Essential Terminal Commands for Every Programmer

As a programmer, the terminal is an indispensable tool for managing files, executing commands, and automating tasks. Whether you’re working on a Linux, macOS, or Windows machine, the terminal provides a consistent interface for interacting with the underlying operating system. We’ll cover 20 essential terminal commands that every programmer should know. These commands are the […]

February 11, 2023

Passing props to props.children in a React functional component

Passing props to props.children in a React functional component is a way of passing data down to multiple child components at once. The props.children property is a reference to the child elements that are contained within the component’s JSX tag. Here’s an example of how to pass props to props.children in a functional component: import […]

February 08, 2023

Aborting a fetch request in React using AbortController

In today’s fast-paced digital world, users expect web pages to load quickly and efficiently. When making network requests, such as with the fetch API, it’s important to ensure that the request is only sent and processed when necessary. One common scenario where aborting a fetch request is important is when a user navigates away from […]

February 01, 2023

Using “currentColor” Fill in SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) has become an essential part of modern web design, offering a wide range of features to create engaging and interactive graphics. One of these features is the "currentColor" fill option, which can simplify the process of changing the color of your graphics while maintaining a consistent look and feel. The "currentColor" […]

February 01, 2023

Remove techinasia paywall

2 Years ago, I wrote a script to remove techInAsia paywall with google chrome extension, where you can download from my repository: https://github.com/maxlibin/nopaywalltechinasia/releases/tag/v0.03-1 Surprisely still works today 2023

January 10, 2023

Use vim as default Git commit message

When you doing git merge in terminal sometime you get annoyed by the default merge message editor that git provided, most of the time is in nano and sometime because you are so pro in vim editor you type too fast and accidently append the usual comands to nano. This annoyed me alot, so you […]

July 24, 2021

How to get all Singapore startups, startups owner, investors profiles for free

Recently I was reading some article and happened to came across this website https://www.startupsg.gov.sg, right is a website to showcase startups based in Singapore. In the website, there are a few directories such as startups, investors and profiles: https://www.startupsg.gov.sg/directory/startups/ As you can see the infos are protected on UI part, when you click disclosed funding […]

May 30, 2020

Setting up fullStack web app for React and Go Lang

This is a guide on how to setup a web app with Go/GoLang, React and MongoDB Assuming you have already installed Go language and NodeJS in you machine. If not please install with the links above. A the time of writing I am using go version go1.14.2 darwin/amd64, and Nodejs v13.8.0 So the first thing […]

March 03, 2020

Alias git to pull current branch

Alias git to pull current branch Git 2.22 onwards has a current branch flag, with git branch —show-current allows you to see which brach you are at now, sometime you want to pull current branch changes, and the easiest config in my opinion is to set a alias in your bash_profile or zshrc without messing […]

January 26, 2020

Looping in bs-emotion

If you like to do a loop in bs-emotion for list of classes and do something, for example different background colors for class of name 1 – 10. .class_1 {background-color: …} .class_2 {background-color: …} .class_3 {background-color: …} .class_4 {background-color: …} here’s how: First you create a loop function with list of colors that you want […]

December 08, 2019

let%Everything ReasonML

let%Anything is a really cool module for ReasonML, Which allows you to create a module and use as with let%Module, lets take a look how to use. Since buckleScript have upgraded to 7++ by default and I am using bs-let for demo: Create a module and method that you like, with let_. Here I create […]

September 24, 2019

Built job portal web app with reasonML/ReasonReact, expressjs and mongoDB

I have added a demo on how I use ReasonMl/ReasonReact with expressJs and mongoDB, you can see how I use Atdgen for sharing types from frontend, reasonML and backend, expressjs/javascirpt types. You can see how I use bs-emotion instead of css, or sass to style the components. you can see the repo on: https://github.com/maxlibin/ParentalJobs This […]

June 14, 2019

Writing css on ReasonReact with oCaml

Recently I was working quite a bit on ReasonML / ReasonReact projects, and we moved from writing old approach of writing external CSS to inline-css with bs-emotion (using oCaml syntax directly). Its really easy to use css or sass / scss into ReasonReact components, you can import them the same way you import with from […]

March 15, 2019

Higher order component for ReasonReact

A higher order component is basically a reusable component which allows you to takes in another component and return a new component. To recap about higher component check our my older post here In ReasoML higher order function are called "Functors" which takes in a module type and returns a module type, functors are written […]

December 08, 2018

Better way to decode JSON in ReasonML/ReasonReact

Recently I was working on some reasonml/ReasonReact project which required to request data in JSON format from an API endpoint, well there are some BuckleScript decoders such https://github.com/glennsl/bs-json which is the more popular one, the way you decode is pretty easy: point = { x: int, y: int }; let point = json => Json.Decode.{ […]

October 08, 2018

fast piping in reasonml

fast piping in reasonml fast piping allow you to transform your function code into more readable syntax, imaging you have human(person(age())) this is very inconvenience to see. with piping you can do it like this: age ->person ->human which is exactly the same as human(person(age())) there are 3 different pipes as I understand you can […]

August 29, 2018

Convert React project to ReasonReact project

Recently I converted one of my old React project while studying React from Udacity sometime back, Since I am reading ReasonML recently so I thought I might as well convert to ReasonML language or ReasonReact, you can find it here. MyRead ReasonReact

August 15, 2018

optional chaining in javascript

Imaging if you need to access deep level of property and you are not sure that if such properties exists deep down, you are doing something like books && books.book && books.book.authors && books.book.authors.author This is really difficult to read and understand sometime. there is something called optional chaining in javascript proposal which you can […]