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Pounding pavement, pushing film.
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I’ve been trying to keep my head down and sane, but now I’m as mad as hell and I won’t take it anymore.
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Reviewing gems in my photo library
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The new normal will take a while getting used to.
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Working from home until the end of the month.
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On my own knowledge, or lack therof.
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Celebrating the small wins in life.
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Looking forward to 2020.
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Climbing up walls, literally – or my one physical thing.
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My Manila vacation, and dealing with my cognitive miser.
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I’ve been toying with the idea for a while now: should I go dark, disconnect from social networks and all, keeping only this blog? How can I do it? And is it worth it?
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Coping.
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A paean to tcpdump(1), or why knowing how to use it is a necessary skill for today’s networked software.
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I’m keen to learn a little about everything, but obviously I don’t know everything. Especially sports.
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Photography as a hobby.
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I’m behind on my blogging – let me catch you up on the past month.
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My penchant for curiousity, borrowing books, and generally being a nosy and smart alec kid back in the day.
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I cannot stress enough how lucky I am.
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Hindi ko gamay ang pagsulat sa Filipino – ngunit, eto ako ngayon, nagsusulat.
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What does it mean to be Filipino?
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I am an inveterate consumer of the black elixir that is coffee.
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I’ve been listening to a lot of OPM (Original Pinoy Music) of late; here are some tracks playing heavily in my library.
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It’s cold out here.
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I’ve avoided talking about Philippine politics for a while now here on my blog – the current political landscape has been very divisive and polarizing. However, recent events have made me reconsider this.
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My ongoing internal debate on static versus dynamic typing, and all that jazz – or why I still like dynamic typing, even with the benefits of compile-time types.
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Putting things on hold.
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Jack of all trades, master of none – but oftentimes, better than master of one? Maybe.
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Soul of a New Machine: a review.
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Revisiting my Emacs configuration as a Java almost-IDE, switching to using LSP.
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The humble print statement is probably the unsung hero of many a debugging session in my career: it’s what I reach for first before breaking out the debugger.
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The software we write is fallible, precisely we’re fallible. That’s not to say that all software is unusable though. Failure is always an option.
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It’s inevitable that I compare everything to Manila, even if I would rather not: I have only that data point to use as basis.
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Since November, I’ve been keeping a journal of my work, as a means of data gathering on my own productivity; it also gives me a sort of timeline of events, should I need to look back.
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Food, glorious food.
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Communication when being fluent or conversant in two languages, coming from a culture of code-switching.
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The map is not the territory, and often when writing software we’re building maps and models of things – which inevitably encodes our own assumptions.
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The time I spend outside of work on rest and relaxation – or at least, Not Work.
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On socialization, introversion, and small talk.
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Looking back on the year that was
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There are various reasons for why I write on this blog (even if I’m not as consistent with my schedule sometimes).
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Three months in, and I think I’m fine.
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The operations side of writing software.
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The universe apparently has a wicked sense of humor, Or how I locked myself out of my own apartment on a public holiday.
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In which the protagonist goes through sensory overload.
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I’ve been pretty lucky in my career so far, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned: you have to take a chance on yourself.
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Into the forays of using Emacs as Java almost-IDE.
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I am a software engineer. I’m also an amateur photographer, a writer, and a dabbler. Or, at least that’s how I view myself.
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Trying to get Emacs to work with a whole environment of tools is a lot of work; it pays to look for other Emacs users and ask them how they fit Emacs into the environment.
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Observations on a shared work vocabulary.
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The second week: looking for apartments, and observations of weather in Sydney.
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Diving into the deep end: moving into a new city, and starting a new job.
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Filling my everyday commute with awesome long-form audio content.
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Just what exactly am I comfortable sharing online?
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I’m moving to Sydney (finally!): what’s on my plate for the next month.
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As I’ve said previously: I try to view things critically, and that means understanding that there are usually shades of gray.
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How to create a gRPC in Clojure and build it with Leiningen.
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Learning other programming languages is pretty beneficial, even if you don’t write code in those languages everyday.
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Engineering involves compromises and trade-offs. But is it a good idea to trade-off quality of code for time?
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The music I listen to; suggestions welcome.
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I’ve decided to reconfigure my Emacs environment, and (re-)learn some stuff, in the service of making the most out of my preferred editor.
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I love food; it’s one of the things I splurge on, as my girlfriend can attest.
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As you gain more experience, you realize that there’s more to writing software than just the technical.
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Reading code is a necessary skill— most of a professional software engineer’s time is spent reading code. But how do you write readable code?
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I have no words to explain it, but sometimes it’s worth looking back at your own past work, cringeing all the way.
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Off-schedule update: I’ve changed the layout/theme!
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The Great Adventure; or what’s going on in my life to date.
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On documentation, the phrase “RTFM”, and writing good documentation.
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Recommended reading
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Confidence, criticism, and why code reviews are hard.
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On the anxiety of getting a visa as a Filipino.
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One thing I’ve learned early on is that commit messages are important; it’s the one thing I always read first when reviewing code to understand the context of a particular change.
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No one likes deadlines, but I find that having them forces me to get things done.
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I spend an inordinate amount of time on the terminal, so it makes a lot of sense for me to learn a few shortcuts and tricks and make the terminal comfortable for my use.
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Thoughts on Emacs and the other tools in my repertoire.
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Getting back into the groove of writing is harder than I thought; figuring out my voice is even harder.
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I’ve come to realize that a lot of design and architectural decisions are a fight against entropy, and it’s a never-ending battle.
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Freelancing and consulting work isn’t my cup of tea, but I’ve learned a lot from it.
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Rebooting the blog. Is this mic on?
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