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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This episode was planned to be more focused on food places and things in between, but everything changed when the Circuit Breaker 2.0 Phase 2 (Heightened Alert) was announced. Plans were changed, activities were reduced, dining out were outright cancelled. It was quite stressful to do all the changes in such a short notice, but in the end, I preserved and mostly stayed at home, while dedicating only two of the afternoons going out. On Monday, I visited Botanic Gardens, and on Friday, Singapore Mobility Gallery.
You may think that Singapore is small and has nothing much to see, but given a week, you can still fill every day with activities and things to see. I started exploring Singapore more deeply back in July 2020 (Exploring Singapore) and also in November 2020 (haha, no post yet). I’ve found that every time I think I’m running out of places to see, that’s also when I find something new.
On this episode, I planned each day to be spent on a certain location throughout the day:
We’ve reached the end of 2020. What a year!
2020 was full of unexpected twists and encounters. If you asked me last year whether I’ll be in the current position, I would say no. Rest assured there’s so much more that can be contained in this one post.
…In the past 3 years, I’ve been learning Rust in Decembers for Advent of Code, and each time, I learned something new.
In the most recent Advent of Code (2019), I did not finish all the challenges, but I enjoyed it a lot! My early decision to modularize some repetitive function really paid off in the later puzzles.
The most important concept of Rust language is borrowing. After things have been borrowed, it must be returned. As simple as this concept is, there may be lots of times one get frustrated by the compile errors of the Rust compiler. Oh, Rust compiler is so strict that Rust beginners will be very relieved if their codes compiles!
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2 August 2020
Last week I took a week off work to explore Singapore. It was an odd decision, as almost no one are taking leave these days. As I haven’t been on leave ever since Chinese New Year (back in January), I did really need a break from work. Besides that, it was a good excuse to travel around Singapore.
Ever since I come to Singapore in 2013, most of my earlier years has been confined in Pulau NTU. After I started working, I also don’t really like to go explore that much because these attractions are crowded especially on weekends. That is why this is the perfect time to explore Singapore since all the tourist attractions are empty as there are no tourists from overseas!
If I include the weekends, this means that I’m off from work for 9 days, and I did use them well: 4 days traveling and 3 days of resting 😊
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I love BBC Radio 1 and I listen to it on the BBC Sounds website. But I noticed something weird. This web player is able to respond to my play/pause command from my Bluetooth headset!
This is quite weird, since not even popular websites like YouTube supported this kind of controls from a Bluetooth headset.
So I started researching.
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