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Goals for this year

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So I've just got employed last week and I was so excited and nervous at the same time. It's a Singapore company and there's an office branch where I live. The night before jumping on the job, I was so excited that I couldn't sleep at all. I kept thinking about how I finally got my very first paid full time position and it was a .NET position, my main thing. But turned out, the company main focus was Ruby and NodeJS. They hired a .NET developer to maintain one of their client's project. And it was written in the old .NET Framework and the code base was very ugly. But that's okay, I guess. I'm still lucky to have a job right in the middle of this COVID crisis. And also in the interview, the directors said that I was gonna need to gain more knowledge, pick up some other languages, which are what I'm trying to achieve right now and even before they hired me. I just hope that after the probation, I'll become their official employee and gain as much knowle
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Blogger is getting worse!

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Yes, it's getting worse day by day and it seems like Google have already abandoned it. The latest Blogger update is on 2020, old themes on the internet (mostly) are incompatible with the current Google Blogger. Making custom themes or editing available themes for Blogger are also a pain.  The only reason I'm still using google blogger is because of its "unlimited" photo storage (technically) and it doesn't force ads on users like Wordpress or require a VPS like Ghost. But now I can't even upload images on Blogger, even using 3rd party image sites doesn't work.  I know Blogger doesn't bring in any revenue but Jesus Christ please fix this mess because there are people still using this platform. 
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Simulating, configuring and uploading to S3 locally using LocalStack and Elixir

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Long story short, I have been trying to find an alternative to AWS S3 to develop my WorldLink's features locally without having to pay anything and today, I stumbled upon some interesting topics on setting up S3 locally: https://dev.to/israellopes/simulating-aws-cli-with-localstack-42kb https://dev.to/israellopes/simulating-s3-bucket-on-localhost-41fh I'll focus only on S3 and aws-cli so if you want to have more details, you can visit the links above. Table of content: Setting up Setting up Docker Setting up AWS cli Setting up LocalStack Configuring AWS cli, LocalStack and Elixir project Uploading files to LocalStack in Elixir 1. Setting up 1.1 Setting up Docker I'm currently using WSL2 Ubuntu 22.04 and native Linux Mint 21.3 . For the complete isolation of development environment, I do NOT install Docker Desktop on my Windows partition. Yes, you can install docker locally under WSL2. Since Linux Mint and Ub
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Asus Zenbook 14 OLED 2022 (UX3402) - 3 months later

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So I ditched the Huawei Matebook 14 after 3 months and I haven't looked back once. Also, I'm quite lazy so I'll keep it short. Pros: - 2 thunderbolt ports + 1 HDMI port, that means I can output 3 external displays, excluding the laptop's display. So 4 displays, plenty rooms for multitasking. - Also with thunderbolt, I can buy a docking station to plug my peripheral devices while charging using only 1 usb-c port. - OLED display, it's superb in everyway. Nothing much to say about how great OLED is. I usually put the brightness up to 75-80 max. That helps prevent burn-in and it's bright enough to do anything I want. - Decent performance, I bought the i5 model. It's not too bad, I can play a few games decently with it (identity v, gta 4, fnv, skyrim, etc). Not for playing AAA games tho. - Quite light, only 1.4kg - The keyboard is pretty much on par with Thinkpad's - Sleek design and a good big touchpad with gesture support - Decent internal microphone with a
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