Why I use a 💻Mac

• The first computer that I owned is a MacBook Air 2015. After eight years of using MacOS, I really could not get used to other operating systems.
• I am a mobile developer. Having a Mac means that I could build and test apps for both Android and iOS.
• I used to code mostly in the terminal, using either NeoVim or Helix. The Mac terminal being unix-compatible is just so convenient to me.

Why I HATE 🍎Apple

• Apple is against 🛠️right to repair movement, which I strongly believe in.
• Apple has the worst developer documentation.

I think that business schools cannot teach students anything -- and business students do not know much. ¹
Come'on, what do they even learn? Do they even have hands?

FYI there was this "MacroHard" AI4A hackathon thingy that I attended. We wrote around 10k LoC. Yet the one of the winners was some random business dudes that show off a pair of sunglasses that they bought somewhere claiming that it was their revolutionary product. Come on! WTF. I blacklist "MacroHard" for this reason.

⬆⬆⬆ See the previous point! ⬆⬆⬆

All of my hackathon² experiences are not pleasant. There was this SDG hackathon where we got some random IBD guy denying all the ideas that we had. Frankly speaking, I think that none of the guys in the SDG hackathon cared about sustainability. If anything, holding a hackathon would not help at all and the hackathon just appeared to be some large-corporation PR thing.

When I am interning at my current company Exxentric, which isn't a big company, I was quite astonished when my colleagues started discussing the carbon footprint of our products. -- this is giving true care for the environment, not some random BS that the big tech come up with.

Giving fair credit to hackathons, they are a good place to socialize and make friends. They are a good place for beginners to try out coding and experiment with their ideas. Don't expect more.

• I believe that the world is of a higher dimension than the one that we can observe. It's like cutting a 3D space using a plane. Observing from the plane, there is no way for you to know how the outside 3D space looks like -- and the plane may even be curved, who knows! Therefore, it seems ridiculous to me that some mathematical models would be able predict how the stock market goes.
• There are only so many things that I can be good at. Currently, programming and trying to build a small software company consumes the majority of my energy. I don't want to spend energy on learning some other things.

To be more specific, by general education I refer to the general education that I experienced at College of Humanities and Sciences (CHS) at NUS. I have since switched to School of Compting (SoC) and I am now a proud SoC student. My argument against GE may be a CHS-specific thing, where as a student you are FORCED to learn the predetermined courses -- without given the freedom of choice.

My argument against GE in CHS are as follows:

• Since the GE courses are designed for the whole cohort, they lack the academic rigor that's required from introductory courses of each department.
• They consume your S/U options (in NUS we are given 8 S/U opportunities, which means that there are 8 courses that you can choose to take with Sastifactory / Unsatisfactory as your grade). This prevents me from exploring the areas that interest me.

• LeetCode has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with software engineering.
• There are only two kinds of problems on LeetCode:
  • Problems that are too easy and are a waste of time to solve.
  • Problems that are too hard and either would never appear in algorithmic interviews or I would not be able to solve them anyways if they appear.
• I tried LeetCode once, and I have since decided to focus on my own projects which are much much more interesting. If one company is going to reject me based on some stupid algorithmic interview, I would say f*ck to that company.

This is an overseas internship as part of the NUS Overseas College (NOC) Stockholm program, which is a year-long program.

Exxentric AB is a Swedish company focused on building flywheel-based strength-training equipments.

(This is still ongoing, will update later)

MarginNote is a digital reader app that helps users learn their materials better.

• I worked as a customer service agent replying to emails for 1 - 2 hours a day.
• I worked on writing video tutorial scripts & editing videos for the MarginNote tutorials.
• I wrote the first set of documentations for the app.

Experience

I started writing Dart & Flutter since Jan. 2022. I am intimately familiar with the details of Dart & Flutter down to the basics.

Projects in Dart & Flutter

• Dynote: a dynamic note-taking app that I have been working on for more than a year now.
• 福 (fu): 福 (FU) is a recurring text-generator that helps you deal with the boring chores of life such as daily reflections.
• Reflet (unreleased, closed source): a spending tracker that aims to help you improve your spending habbits.
• SimpleSM: a simple state management solution that I built to help me understand the basics of state management behind Dart/Flutter.
• CopyPaste: one of my first projects with Flutter, where I intend to allow you to draw something on the tablet and paste it on your computer. It's pretty shitty code :)
• my_popup_menu: an iOS-like popup menu implementation in Flutter. (It's quite complicated!)
• selectable_items: a shared widget library to allow for selecting items. (I forgot what I did with this lmao)

Experience

I become obssessed with Rust in early 2023, and I wrote a lot of code in Rust since.

Projects

TBD

Experience

I use TypeScript & React Native for work at Exxentric. I am comfortable with writing TS & RN, but I just have to say that TS & RN are objectively worse than Dart & Flutter. They really are!

Projects

TBD (I will summary this up once I finish my internship at Exxentric)

Experience

Swift is the first programming language that I learnt. I learnt it way back in 2014. The first few of my projects are built in Swift & UIKit using storyboards. I love the elegance of the language.

I would say that I am very comfortable with Swift / SwiftUI, but I do not know as much about the libraries in the Swift ecosystem because it has not been my tech choice for quite some time. I still enjoy it a lot every time when I try to write something in Swift / SwiftUI.

Projects

TBD (I'll need to spend some time cleaning up things)

Experience

It's a boring language -- one that I don't have to think much about when I write it. I used it a lot for my school work.

Projects

TBD

Experience

I've only used this language for 2 of my courses: CS2100 & CS2106. I do plan to use it a little more in some of the future projects because I think it is a good language -- much better than C++ as I assume.

Projects

TBD