Intro to tz database
The other day I ran into this timezone issue in Ruby, and it exposed me to the concept of tz database that I didn’t know before. When I was googling around for an intro article about it there were ...
Vim as a journal
Previously I published the take aways from writing journals, and in this post I will go over my writing set up. There are many schools of thought on which medium to write journals on (e.g., physic...
How to export words from Kindle vocab builder
Learning to love reading again has been the best thing to happen after college. I prefer e-books over other mediums due to several reasons, but the biggest draw for me is the dictionary feature. It...
111 Japanese Tongue Twisters
tl;dr: The actual list is down the article If you ever meet me irl, you might wonder why I mumble rap all the time in conversations. The fact is … I don’t. I just have a terrible pronunciation in ...
Build a custom email with Mailgun & Namecheap and manage it from Gmail
I’ve used Zoho Mail for quite some time but was never happy with their UI. With some googling, I found that Mailgun makes it pretty easy for me to set up a custom email that I can manage on Gmail...
Store git credentials for UBC CS server
You’re taking a CS course at UBC and just finished a chunk of work that you wanna commit.
When you try to git push or git pull, you’re asked to type in username and password 
(Green lin...
How to create shared folder on Windows Remote Desktop from Ubuntu via Remmina
As part of COMM335 at UBC, students use Microsoft Access via Remote Desktop if you use Mac. Unfortunately, they don’t have a guide on Ubuntu (yet). I had some trouble creating a shared folder betwe...
Rubyconf 2017にOpportunity Scholarとして参加したイベントレポ
この記事はつい先日Rubyconf 2017に運良くOpportunity Scholarとして参加してきた自分視点のイベントレポです。事前にいろいろ検索してもプログラムに関しての情報が全く見つからなかったので、自分の経験を将来Opportunity Scholarのプログラムに興味がある日本の方にどんな感じなのかを伝えられれば幸いです。結果から言うと全体的にメチャ楽しく、大満足な経験だ...
Build a Mailer with Rails
Hey all, I have a confession to make. Believe it or not, I find emails to be … cool. I was working on a system-failure notification system at my internship, and that was when I was introduced...
Your First Chrome Extension
Google chrome is pretty great. I mean its fast, its stable, and looks slick. IT JUST WORKS! What also makes Chrome stand out from other browsers out there is Chrome’s unique extension ecosystem. ...
Introduction to Design Pattern in JavaScript
If you’ve been coding for a while, you might have heard about this thing called “Design Pattern”. But what the heck are they? Why are they useful? Should you learn them? As another JavaScript nov...