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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
While the economy uncertainty has been looming around. It has puts a lot of pressure on the leadership team to increase productivity or cutting costs. The latter is the easy way to win the battle, but lose to the war. In true leadership fashion, we […]
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 […]
