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Colin Toh
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May 1, 2020

How I Got Out of Tech and Still Make a Decent Living

The biggest decision I made in my career — I had been working as a software engineer for 10 years. I started out working as a contract front-end engineer with no benefits. It was a work-from-home job so I was home nearly all the time. One day, my Dad told me to get an “actual” job. …

Entrepreneurship

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How I Got Out of Tech and Still Make a Decent living
How I Got Out of Tech and Still Make a Decent living
Entrepreneurship

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Feb 3, 2017

2017 Logs

Logs of significant things that I have done in 2017. Will be constantly updating. Hopefully. January Edited my first travel vlog: Link Submitted my first answer to Stackoverflow: Link Answered my first question on Quora: Link Learned Facebook Marketing and get actual ROI: Link February First submission to dribbble: Link

Personal Development

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Personal Development

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Jan 2, 2017

My 2016

My last review was for 2013. That was truly a remarkable year where I started my first brick-and-mortar business, committed my first open source code and was doing meaningful projects at work. The past 2 years had been somewhat successful to a certain extent but I just didn’t manage to…

2016

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2016

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titmice

·Nov 20, 2016

Why I built another Personal Finance Application

and why I called it Titmice Titmice is a small songbird from North America that stores food in winter for later use. Many of my friends were surprised when I told them I was building an app to track expenses. I could see the flash of “wut, another one?” …

Weight Loss

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Why I built another Personal Finance Application
Why I built another Personal Finance Application
Weight Loss

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HackerNoon.com

·Sep 12, 2016

How to get a failing negotiation back on track?

A negotiation gets difficult when your counterparts start displaying uncooperative behaviours. They can be fixated on certain issues, refusing to move the conversation forward demonise you and goes off on a diatribe that have little relevance with the issue on hand be extremely defensive easily provoked into an angry response …

Negotiations

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How to get a failing negotiation back on track?
How to get a failing negotiation back on track?
Negotiations

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HackerNoon.com

·Aug 5, 2016

How to force an email response from someone who is ignoring you

Tired of getting your email ignored? Try this neat technique. You had been chasing a potential lead for a few weeks and things were looking up for you. The rapport was strong and with some gentle nudging, this lead can be converted into a full-time paying client. …

Email

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How to force an email response from someone who is ignoring you
How to force an email response from someone who is ignoring you
Email

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Jul 26, 2016

Why most clients will not get a scalable server for just $100

Or why articles should not emphasize on the cost of “Getting It Done” Pokemon Go Pokemon Go is all the hype right now. There are two complementary app that are appearing on my newsfeed for different reasons — GoChat and GoSnap. GoChat GoChat is facing server scalability issue and since it’s a free…

Startup

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Startup

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk Survival Guide

·Jul 13, 2016

Chapter 4: How to configure AWS Elastic Beanstalk to scale

This article was originally posted on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Survival Guide: How to configure AWS Elastic Beanstalk to scale In this chapter, we are going to explore the configuration settings that you should adjust to achieve scalability. So what do we mean by scalability? It is the capability of a…

AWS

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Chapter 4: How to configure AWS Elastic Beanstalk to scale
Chapter 4: How to configure AWS Elastic Beanstalk to scale
AWS

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk Survival Guide

·Feb 10, 2016

Chapter 3: How to deploy your application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

This article was originally posted at AWS Elastic Beanstalk Survival Guide: How to deploy your application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk In this chapter, we will be learning to deploy application to AWS Cloud with Elastic Beanstalk. …

AWS

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Chapter 3: How to deploy your application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Chapter 3: How to deploy your application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk Survival Guide

·Feb 1, 2016

Step by step guide to screw up with Elastic Beanstalk

A cautionary tale about the magic of AWS Elastic Beanstalk Using T2 instance type without creating VPC 1) Create an application from the management console. 2) Create an environment within that application. 3) DO NOT check the “Create this environment inside a VPC”

AWS

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Step by step guide to screw up with Elastic Beanstalk
Step by step guide to screw up with Elastic Beanstalk
AWS

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Colin Toh

Colin Toh

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Writes about web stuff on www.colintoh.com.

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