Three years ago, I built an app using Purity dashboard to bootstrap my Laravel/React project. So happen, this is build on top of React 17 and Chakra UI v1. The app is called Owl Alert which was for me to build my own technical alert indicators to get […]
Over the past year, AI‑assisted development has grown beyond autocomplete suggestions and chat‑based help. We’re now entering what I see as the agentic phase of software engineering — where coding assistants behave more like collaborators. Instead of responding to one‑off prompts, they internalize context, follow […]
Over the past year, the conversation around AI‑assisted coding has shifted from awe to practicality. We’ve moved past the “wow” phase of generating full‑stack apps from a single prompt and started asking tougher questions — can we maintain this code? Can we extend it? Does […]
For the past month, I’ve been unusually quiet on social media and my personal blog — for good reason. I’ve spent most of my time participating in two hackathons, Kiroween and Codegeist, with three projects submitted in total. Ever since 2021, I’ve never to miss […]
I am so glad that I have took some time out of my day to tryout this Kiroween hackathon. A little bit of background, I have been building apps on Atlassian ecosystem for quite a number of years already. Therefore, the advantage I had in […]
Disclaimer: this post is 95% written with by the weekly “n8n workflow” to generate content idea and writing an article about it. 5% for proof-reading and rewriting to match the blog tone. By any means, I am not a big fans of AI replacing my […]
As an engineering manager, we’re being tasked to look after the career development of our reports. In the context of annual review, we are often being tasked to set OKR, KPI, or goals. Regardless, the context here is more or less the same. Anyway, the […]
Just about a week ago, I finally got my invite to use Kiro. It was one of the long awaited tool that I love to try given the hype around it. Why? I just like the concept of how they separate out the “spec” to […]
Recently, one of the world largest remote hackathon just ended. If you have not heard about it, is literally called World’s Largest Hackathon presented by Bolt. A total of 128768 participants and 9582 projects submitted. This is in fact one of the highest I ever […]
Looking back at the whirlwind that 2024 has been, especially in the world of AI, I’ve found myself reflecting a lot on the nature of our creations. It’s one thing to build a cool AI model; it’s an entirely different beast to keep it humming […]
