Recently I have been refactoring Nikku, web-based BRSTM audio player. After I moved out the audio decoding part to a worker thread, I noticed that passing data between main thread and worker thread causes a significant delay before the audio can be played back.
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I was on leave again. Just like the Episode V, it revolved around food, but this time, I didn’t have much activities in between. Most of the time, I went out for lunch, then if there’s nothing to do, I went back home and played game.
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Back in 2020, I set 2021 theme as “The Social Year”: aim to meet more people and sustain more friendships. Like the previous years, I’m assessing three aspects of my life: work, people, and health.
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I went on yet another episode of exploring Singapore on 1-3 December. This time, it was a short one, lasting only 2.5 days, but it was packed of activities!
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Right after my Cruise to Nowhere trip, I had several more off days to spend in Singapore. Because lots of my plans were cancelled in Episode IV, it was time to revisit those plans.
This time, my destinations were revolved around food and the activities filled in between weren’t fixed. Because of that, I started the day a bit late during lunch instead of in the morning. This way, I would be more relaxed as it supposed to be.
During the four days of leave, I visited Tanglin area, Changi area, Downtown area, and West Coast area.
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The last time I was overseas was February 2020 when the pandemic was still brewing and came back to Singapore acting like a hero by bringing in few boxes of face masks. It has been such a long time since my last travel that packing for travel felt unnatural to me.
Technically, I was going overseas, leaving Singapore for 4 nights in international waters. The feeling while onboard cruise is like being on another world, where you are served well and felt full all the time. While the common name of this kind of trip is “cruise to nowhere”, to many of us, the cruise itself is the destination.
I embarked on 30 September 2021 and returned back to Singapore on 4 October 2021.
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Earlier this year, I’ve started to revamp the UI part of Nikku, a web-based BRSTM player that I built back in 2019. I started with doing mock up in Figma, and then implemented using Web Components. It took a few months and here are my journey.
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