Do you know what freedom looks like to me? Wake up and have a cup of coffee without rushing to workHelp my mum do all the cooking stuff in the morning on weekdays.Have a lunch with my familyPickup my sister from schoolAt the end of the day, people want
Read more →To be honest, I'm a little bit sceptical when someone uses Roam as a daily journal and write a note. The price is expensive ($15/month) and it's only web-based. There is no mobile application. One day, I watch a video from Nat Eliason on how he uses roam as
Read more →I've a freelance work that needs to use WordPress, but I've not developed WordPress for a long time. I need to build a WordPress theme that provides flexibility for the client to change the website content. I saw there is a Gutenberg block inside a new WordPress panel and it's
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Quantified self or self-tracking is a way for someone to generate data of their life to improve themself. By having a lot of data, you can make an analysis and provide you insightful information. In today’s world, there are many devices and software for us to gather and collect
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You may use this as your starting guide to set your first hourly rate. Based on your salary jobPricing is a complex skill. The first thing you need to know is your cost. I’ll show how the calculation works if you just get started in freelance and wanna transition
Read more →IntroductionsPreviously, I’ve written one article on how to build a reusable vuejs modal, and it was one year ago. I'm grateful that many people read it, although it's a little bit too beginner. Today, I would like to teach you guys how to build a reusable vuejs modal but
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Yesterday, I helped my employer to do a job posting. It’s my first time doing this thing. The talent that they’re looking for is Mid/Senior Frontend Engineer (React). My initial plan would be, I post this job in the local Facebook dev group and waiting for an
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Last week, I saw someone put a snippet to filter Gmail email in twitter -Github It seems like a good idea, but it doesn’t on my side. Maybe my email inbox has different rules. Basically, what I do is create a filter that matches this keyword unsubscribe. If it
Read more →I'm trying to use a new todo list called Teuxdeux. I've used it previously, but I canceled it because of monthly fees, and they're a lot of free alternatives. Previously, I'm using Notion and Things 3. I'm trying to use GTD methods. My things 3 is getting overwhelmed. I put
Read more →For the past month, I’ve been working on the Menubarforynab. I assume the product name is already self-explained 😄. I need to build a backend API to connect between the YNAB Oauth and Menubar apps (Electron). The backend currently builds on ExpressJS and Postgres. I like how light and simple
Read more →Last week, I had a task to build a keyword search feature on my job. It's required a constant background checking whenever a new keyword was typed. The problem is I don't want to continually request the API; the new keyword was changed. It will hurt our server. Let's start
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5invite was one of my side projects last year. There is a trend of digital wedding card invitation in Malaysia. Many wedding card business start providing a digital invitation. One thing that I saw was there are building the invitation by demand (manually). If there’s an order, the business
Read more →HistoryBakuman is of the manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata I found this manga when I was 15 years old. I've got a bad result in my exam (PMR), and I felt so useless. When I was surfing on the internet, I found this new manga
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Everyone needs a job to earn money. I have a rule of thumb that I followed when I apply for a job. For me, the job is not something you can take it slightly. You need to enjoy your work because you spent most of the day working on the
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It's a habit that I write what happens during my entire year. I try to be transparent as possible. If you're interested, you may read my previous year here - 2017, 2018. Fulltime freelanceOne of the highlights of my year is fulltime freelance. Honestly, it’s quite hard. It takes
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