Life & learning
1 min A Question I’ve Been Asking Myself Lately (And Why)
A Question I’ve Been Asking Myself Lately (And Why)
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Every piece, organized by year.
2025
Career
2 min 2 Mistakes I Made Early In My Career—And What I Would Have Done Differently
2 Mistakes I Made Early In My Career—And What I Would Have Done Differently
Life & learning
2 min A Lesson My Parents Taught Me That I’ll Never Forget
A Lesson My Parents Taught Me That I’ll Never Forget: If you want a healthy work-life balance you should leave work concerns at the workplace.
Life & learning
2 min The 2 Most Difficult Choices I’ve Ever Had To Make In Life
The 2 Most Difficult Choices I’ve Ever Had To Make In Life
2024
Life & learning
1 min 3 Simple Steps to Help You Stay Resilient and Focused
3 Simple Steps to Help You Stay Resilient and Focused
Career
2 min 5 Small (But Easily Fixable) Mistakes Most Software Engineers Do When Trying to get Promoted - Part 2
5 Small (But Easily Fixable) Mistakes Most Software Engineers Do When Trying to get Promoted - Part 2
Career
3 min 5 Small (But Easily Fixable) Mistakes Most Software Engineers Do When Trying to get Promoted - Part 1
5 Small (But Easily Fixable) Mistakes Most Software Engineers Do When Trying to get Promoted - Part 1
Career
2 min 4 Reasons Why I Think Everyone Should Read Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond management track
4 Reasons Why I Think Everyone Should Read Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond management track by Will Larson
Career
2 min 3 Simple (But Effective) Pieces Of Advice I’d Give Anyone Starting In Software Development
3 simple (but effective) pieces of advice I'd give anyone starting out (or who wants to get started)
Notes on building
1 min If You’re Interested In Learning Android Development, Subscribe To This YouTube Channel
Great YouTube channel for learning Android development
Notes on building
1 min Something Weird Most People Don’t Know About Software Engineers
3 Unusual Insights About Software Engineers That Outsiders Don't Know
Engineering
3 min Why Shouldn't Mobile Platform Teams Handle Random Tasks? Here’s What Successful Leaders Do Differently
3 Habits Successful Leaders employ to maximize mobile platform team's potential
Engineering
2 min Anyone Interested In Making Organizational Changes Should Read This Book
5 reasons why you need to read Switch: How to change things if you're a tech leader
Engineering
2 min 6 Rules Every Platform Engineer Should Know for Crafting Clear Technical Announcements - Part III
Learn essential rules of technical writing with examples
Engineering
2 min 6 Rules Every Platform Engineer Should Know for Crafting Clear Technical Announcements - Part II
Learn essential rules of technical writing with examples
Engineering
2 min 6 Rules Every Platform Engineer Should Know for Crafting Clear Technical Announcements - Part I
Learn essential rules of technical writing with examples
Career
2 min One Underrated Tool Tip to Help New Hires Onboard, Ramp up, and Start Excelling Faster in Their New Company
Using company's communication platforms, such as slack/microsoft teams, as your personal search engine when onboarding in the new company
Career
1 min One Big Mistake I Made When I Was First Getting Started As a Software Engineer
Learn from my career mistake of downplaying individual contributions and how it led to being overlooked by management, impacting career progression and recognition.
Career
2 min One Effective Strategy for Platform Engineers to Showcase Impact in Promotion Packets
This essay will explore the effective strategy of measuring impact in business terms, demonstrating how platform engineers can immediately convey the value of their technical contributions through clear, quantifiable business metrics.
Life & learning
1 min The One Software App I Can’t Live Without For Handling My Life
Sharing three reasons why Notion app is the tool to handle your life
Career
1 min One Tip Every Junior Software Engineer Needs to Hear to Succeed
Learn the key tip for junior software engineers: understanding the problem you're solving is essential for creating effective solutions and achieving meaningful results in your coding career.
Android
2 min 2 Steps For Android Developers To Integrate Dependabot Under 10 Minutes And Automate Dependency Updates
A straightforward, two-step process to help Android developers quickly integrate Dependabot into their projects for automatic dependency management
Life & learning
2 min 3 Realizations About Task Management To Finish Your To-Do List By The End Of Each Day
Learn how to prioritize tasks, use a single tracking system, and properly estimate time for personal projects to boost productivity and achieve daily goals
Life & learning
1 min How I Got Interested in Building Scalable Systems for my life
What made me apply system design to my personal life?
Android
1 min The Best Way To Get Started Learning About Android Development
3 essential skills beyond coding needed to become a software engineer
Career
2 min 3 Essential skills that define a software engineer
3 essential skills beyond coding needed to become a software engineer
Notes on building
1 min Debugging The Engineering Interview Process
The presentation about breaking down the engineering hiring process and identifying ways to improve conversion rate from stage A to stage B
2023
Engineering
6 min What’s right is not always right for you
Choosing the right framework/library goes beyond its popularity or features; it's about aligning with your team's expertise, goals, and growth. Dive into the key considerations that will guide you in making a decision tailored to your team's unique needs.
Life & learning
10 min Tracking My Way to Joy: A Year-Long Experiment of Self-Care and Personal Growth
My journey of combatting being overwhelmed and anxious and finding emotional wellbeing. Learn more about a combination of different task management methods, mindful exercises, like daily journaling, and tools such as Notion, to balance competing priorities in your life.
Life & learning
13 min 2022 Year in Review
Annual Retrospective on 2022: all ups and downs, highlights and wins, lows and challenges
2022
Android
4 min Tools to detect and debug recomposition in Jetpack Compose
The list of available tools with pros and cons that will help you to detect and debug recomposition in Jetpack Compose
Android
4 min History of hyphenation in Android
Quick overview of handling hyphenation in Android's TextView
Android
7 min Flying Hearts Animation in Jetpack Compose: Quick and Easy Edition
The tutorial of Flying Hearts Animation in Android native UI toolkit, Jetpack Compose
Android
4 min Jetpack Compose in many shapes and forms
An introduction to Shape API in Jetpack Compose and its versatile usage
2021
Life & learning
4 min 2021 Year in Review
Annual Retrospective on the 2021 year: all ups and downs, highlights and wins, lows and challenges
Android
5 min Integrating a seamless in-app review rating experience in MVI
Tutorial of implementing a new In-App Review API, including star ratings and reviews, by Google Play Core in MVI android app development architecture
Career
5 min The 5-step guide to become an Android Developer
Tips on how to become an android developer and what to learn or roadmap to software engineering for complete newbies
Notes on building
2 min Story of upgrading Hugo
Hugo upgrade that comes with Homebrew upgrade and dealing with its shallow clones in the local machine #goHugo
Notes on building
6 min How to create your custom Link in Bio landing page in Hugo under 10 mins
Build custom Link in Bio social landing page with shortcode in Hugo
Career
3 min How to get your first interviews as a software engineer
3 tips to get your first interviews as a software engineer
Android
5 min When and how to use RxJava Disposable
Practical usage of Disposable, CompositeDisposable, SerialDisposable and their examples in RxJava 2 and RxJava 3
2020
2019
Life & learning
4 min Recap of 2019: the art of speaking
With ups and downs, this year was indeed a very memorable
Android
5 min Good and sad examples of extension functions
Common practices of writing extension functions in Kotlin