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Still a programmer, Tech bro

Building with v0 x vercel

June 28, 2026

I have known about v0 since its early days as a tool that is very good at building aesthetically pleasing web applications. I remember a couple of years ago, one of my engineers literally used v0 to build the frontend before integrating it with our […]

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Still a programmer, Tech bro

I spent 3 weekends setting up Hermes workflow

May 24, 2026

Here is what I learned. For context, Hermes is similar to OpenClaw or other coding frameworks where you can set up multiple agents. If you are using Hermes without multi-profile support, you are missing a major capability it can offer. I started with two must-have […]

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Still a programmer

My experience with Kiro, Speckit, and OpenSpec

February 21, 2026

When spec-driven development started to gain attention in 2025, I was intrigued. The promise of building software guided by a clear, AI-interpretable specification felt like a refreshing mix of discipline and creativity. Over the past year, I decided to give it a serious try — […]

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Still a programmer, Tech bro

How MCP and steering docs help in agentic coding

December 23, 2025

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 […]

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Servant leader, Still a programmer

Why should we start mastering spec‑driven development

December 22, 2025

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 […]

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Still a programmer

A month of hackathons: Building with spec‑driven development

December 21, 2025

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 […]

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Still a programmer, Tech bro

Experience developing with Kiro

August 24, 2025

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 […]

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Tech bro

Reviewing the world largest remote hackathon

August 17, 2025

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 […]

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Still a programmer, Tech bro

Real challege of vibe code as a developer

April 7, 2025

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 […]

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Servant leader, Tech bro

Way of work in AI land

March 16, 2025

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 […]

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About Me

Experienced SWE and EM. I help and coach people to find passion in tech.

I am a quick learner. Always playing around with the hot and trending stuff for fun and work (LBS, GIS, CRM, Blockchain, ML/AI, Cybersec, etc). My way of engineering is Frugal Engineering. Too many acronyms? Not helping 😛

Still actively programming for personal projects and hackathons. I hope I have the time journal it here. Subscribe follow along this journey with me.

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