Jul 25, 2019Launching ecof.aiAs part of the Junction Online Challenge hackathon, my colleague Linh, and I worked on a new product that could help to reduce a small chunk of climate-change producing CO2e emissions from unnecesary air travel (which makes up 2% of all global emissions). The concept is fairly simple. Usually international…Conference2 min read
Jun 20, 2019What I learned in just one year of a Masters Degree in Computer ScienceLast year I completely uprooted my life in Australia and moved to … literally the other side of the planet (Finland!) to pursue a new study passion. It has been an absolutely incredible year. Both for my own self-development, and also because I learned a ton of new, useful things…Machine Learning6 min read
Dec 30, 2018Self-Developments I am thankful for in 2018This year, a lot changed in my life. I moved out of home, I finally started dating someone new (even if only for a few months), I moved countries, I ended up with a minor but permanent disability, I moved countries again, some of my relationships took on a new…Life Lessons3 min read
Nov 11, 2018Pareto Optimization for User Interface LayoutsLets say that you’re designing the layout for a menu and your design team is having a bikesheddy argument about where to put the items in the menu. These kinds of arguments are the worst because they involve fighting over things that are purely individual preferences, are backed by no…User Experience7 min read
Oct 29, 2018Rebooting my personal website and brandSo this story starts with me getting rejected from a hackathon I was really looking forward to attending this year. At first, my ego kicked in and I actually felt a little bit offended. “How the hell does someone like me, who has placed in hackathons before, someone who has…Programming6 min read
Oct 16, 2018DASH 2018This year I participated in DASH 2018, the biggest design hackathon in Europe, held in Helsinki, Finland (where I recently moved to!). When I saw the opportunity to participate in a design hackathon this year, I was immediately intrigued. …Dash4 min read
Apr 22, 2018Visualising my Summer School math unitsLast year I decided that I wanted to undertake further study in Computer Science after completing my Bachelor at the University of Western Australia. Specially, I want to specialize in deep learning. Its the future, and an extension of Computer Science, so shouldn’t be too hard, right? Problem: I suck…Mathematics4 min read
Mar 4, 2018Getting AWS Lambda and API Gateway to support binary, 2018 editionI wrote about getting a Node and React App up and running on AWS Lambda last year, but with the caveat that getting binary responses to work seemed nearly impossible to the point where I basically just skipped over it. This post is about coming back again to finish the…AWS3 min read
Mar 1, 2018Server Rendering in 2018— How do I do this again? Another year, another React app to add server-side rendering support to. For the uninitiated, Server-Side-Rendering in the context of React is the term used to describe the use of React itself to do the first render pass of a web-app on the server…React11 min read
Feb 19, 2018We’ve all been infected with short attention-spanismFor everyone here who happened to use the internet before Facebook: Have you noticed that you’re talking to people a lot less? Have you noticed that its incredibly hard to strike up a conversation with someone that doesn’t feel forced and superficial? …Life4 min read
