The last couple of months has been exciting month that involves winning a couple of hackathon through personal initiative after work hours. In my current company, we have this culture of sharing. And I took the opportunity to share my experience of the virtual hack […]
In recent years, Hackathon/hack week/hack day has been the driving force behind the innovation of the large company. It also serves multi-purpose. 1) Medium for recruitment to find passionate engineers. 2) Timeout and a change of pace from the usual backlogs. 3) Builds culture and […]
In conjunction with organizing an internal Hackweek within our company, I have participated 2 virtual hackathons and submitted 2 projects in the past months. Hackweek FY22.1 Atlassian Codegeist 2021 Since the theme is about building Atlassian’s plugin, this is the expertise I have gained from […]
For context Recently, there is a vulnerability that is found in an on-prem server that is being exploited like a wildfire. If you have not heard about it, feel free to read more about it here. It is also known as CVE-2021-26084 RCE on Confluence […]
Put first things first has been one of my frequent go-to habits nowadays. It often overlooks since the concept of it is obvious, to begin with. I used it to coach engineers, teaching them to prioritize work and to intentionally plan for their careers. For […]
Devpost is one of the popular sites that host virtual hackathons. If you’re aren’t aware of it. You should. Back in 2017, I was one of those crypto crazes that invested in EOS. Knowing quite well in terms of their functionality, EOS is not alien […]
Clean code was made popular by publishing a book by Robert C. Martin titled Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. It talks about writing clean, understandable, and maintainable code is a skill that is crucial for every developer to master. “Any fool can […]
Nowadays, a good software development company that works in a team typically will establish some sort of process for code review. One of the most commonly used examples is creating a Pull-Request (PR). Commonly used in Github and open-source projects. Therefore, it is good to […]
If you don’t know what this exercise is, search for it. You’ll get the idea, is pretty straightforward. That is to plan ahead and connect with what means to you or your company, and what impact it has made over the life span. Back from […]
As we are starting our last quarter, is a good time to reflex and start planning out what is next for the company in FY22. I like the way how my company is approaching things and strategy with deliberate exercise to get everybody (not just […]
