Experience developing with Kiro
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 […]
Category: Still a programmer
Coding grind to build something for passion
Generate an agentic structured output
One of the biggest pain of traditional web-developer like us still heavily rely on structured output such as JSON format to integrate with our existing system. Regardless of SQL or NoSQL, you still need some form of controllable output in order to make sure your […]
Memory bank for AI coding
Recently I have been coaching my team to use AI for development. There are many tools that we can used for free to get so much value (such as Cline w/ gemini or openrouter, co-pilot, etc). Thus, we should not be shying away from this […]
Bypassing Cloudflare wall for my little scrapper
Background Just as I fixed one problem and got something to work, another piece of my system is breaking. This time, my webscrapper is being challenged by Cloudflare bot checking. Right from the get go, during the initial development I want to host the script […]
Real challege of vibe code as a developer
How it started I used to have my own handy Bursa Whale tool for me to have a high-level glance of all the insider and institution purchases and selling in the Bursa market. I have a script that will read the announcement from the Bursa […]
Vibe coding – Is this the future building software?
There is a weird trend that is happning in the software development space on Reddit. Is called “Vibe Coding”. What is it about? Vibe coding, as coined by Andrej Karpathy, is essentially “fully giving in to the vibes” and forgetting that code even exists. Instead […]
Coding assistance
Looking back at the 2024, the world of AI and assistance coding has evolve quite rapidly. We has evolve from working using chat prompts on code snippet directly from the platform website, to vs code plugin, and now upgrading to another level to be fully […]
Chart plus update
It has been a while since the end of the Canva hackathon. I am happy that the idea I am working on has put me on the winning list and pushed me through the marketplace release. Since then, I have been in an endless loop […]
A win for Canva Devpost Hackathon
I am so excited to share that I just ended a Canva hackathon with a consolation prize in the Best Enterprise Category with Canva Chart Plus. How it all gets started In July, I anticipated my weekend to be rather free and there comes a […]
Frugal Engineering: Doing More with Less
Let’s talk about frugal engineering. This is something that I have been unconsciously doing without knowing that it is a thing. Nevertheless, this mindset has helped me to be where I am today. Without realizing it, it helped me to think outside the box and […]