I consider myself a considered decision-maker (although some might call it indecisiveness). I spend a significant amount of time collecting as much information as I can, because I believe that more data produces better decisions. …
Reflecting on 2 years of hard work, hustle, and a dash of luck
I just recently passed my 1 year mark as a “real” software engineer (whatever that means), and I wanted to take time to reflect on my journey and come up with some learnings. …
Hello office… in 2021?
In May 2020, I started my first job out of university as a software engineer at Facebook. I was (supposed to be) based at its Menlo Park office. My initial excitement to work from the beautiful campus, enjoy the free (and delicious) food, and explore the many other perks has…
Every 60 seconds in my quarantine, a minute passes.
Due to a series of unavoidable and unfortunate circumstances (beginning with a wet market in Wuhan, China), last week, I found myself landing at Singapore Changi Airport. Upon clearing immigration, I was immediately whisked off to a dedicated quarantine facility.
Immediately, I wanted to start counting down my remaining quarantine…
Like the Asgardian protector, it valiantly guards your inbox.
I love receiving spam mail! — No one ever.
I use Gmail, which does a fantastic job of weeding out spam and sending them straight into the spam folder. …
How email works is a lot more complicated than you might expect
I’m working on an exciting new open-source project that is essentially a self-hosted/managed email aliasing service (more on this at the end!). In a nutshell, it works by generating disposable aliases (e.g. uniquealias@mydomain.com) and forwarding any received emails on that address to your personal email address.
In the simplest use…
I recently built a personal website using Gatsby, and I included a few Font Awesome icons on the front page (see the Github/Linkedin/Medium icons).
The problem was that during page loading on production, there would be a momentary flash of huge Font Awesome icons across the page, before some CSS…
I previously wrote an article on solving the Knapsack Problem with dynamic programming. In that article, I pretty much skipped to the dynamic programming solution directly, with only a brief introduction of what dynamic programming is and when it can be applied.
Previously, I wrote about solving the 0–1 Knapsack Problem using dynamic programming. Today, I want to discuss a similar problem: the Target Sum problem (link to LeetCode problem — read this before continuing the rest of this article!).
The Target Sum problem is similar to the 0–1 Knapsack Problem, but…
