Facebook Singapore Hackathon 2016

In another day as a final-year student, stressed out by FYP, an e-mail was received, containing the invitation to yet another hackathon: Facebook Hackathon. The 24-hour hackathon did not ask for any participation fee. Intuitively, having joined several hackathons before, I knew that this is a nice deal to get free food over the weekends. So, I signed up. …

July 2016

4 August 2016

July was a month of endings.

July, like in other years, started with 1st of July. But this year was different, this year, I was not feeling well. I forced myself to go to work that day, but left early to go back and rest. …

Enabling free SSL on Hostinger shared hosting

Update 2023-09: It seems like Hostinger has rolled out free Let’s Encrypt SSL for all customers, even for the most basic hosting plan. This post was originally written in 2016 and kept as archive.

28 July 2016

When there is a will, there is a way!

Free SSL certificates, issued by Let’s Encrypt, have been around for quite a while. Enabling it on a shared hosting is an issue, since users cannot execute any executables (or very limited set of commands) on it.

I’ve been using premium shared hosting service from Hostinger Indonesia for few years now to host my personal website (kenrick95.org). Here are the steps required to enable Let’s Encrypt SSL on Hostinger shared hosting.

Donations

10 July 2016

Doing good for a cause is great, it feels good. One of the easiest way of conducting good deeds is to make donations.

I donated frequently to temples I visit, sometimes to the tissue uncle, and quite too often on Humble Bundle. …