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This is Mochi. She is my 2-month old Shih Tzu puppy (at the time of this post). A teenie-weenie cutie furball who just eats, sleep and run around the house all day long, while I chase after her constantly trying to get the last item she has got in her mouth. Which reminds me that…
i go by the nickname of jun, usually. but i’ve been called many names by different people. that all boils down to which group or setting i am in. my siblings prefer to call me dong. my parents do too though they switch randomly from that to jun. legend has it that when i was…
First one is a shot of the Singapore central business district at night. I’m not sure where in particular I took this photo. I think it might have been at one of the waterfront promenades. While taking an evening stroll in one of the countless times that I’ve spent around this area, it is such…
So I am involved in this project currently where the project architect suggested that we follow HATEOAS-driven RESTful web service. This is probably something I have read about before, but didn’t really pay much attention to, or I simply forgot. Learning something new is always fun. Well, most of the time it is. It depends…
Rediscovered this really cool app named scrcpy recently. I think I’ve read about it before but never bothered about it. Until now. Because my needs have changed and I actually have a use case for this app now. More on that later down there. scrcpy – Now that is just a weird name. Need I…
Been working from home for over 2 months now. I think that’s going to be 3 soon. This is what it looks like. It is kind of a mess. Cables all over. A few rebellious toys are squatting on my work area. If you look closely, there is a coffee bean grinder behind fat Iron…
Have used FastCGI Process Manager (FPM) in other projects before. It really makes a whole lot of difference in page loading time. I don’t know why this has not become the default since PHP is literally everywhere and conventional PHP implementations are slow-ish. Also, it is not that complicated to set up. Of course, I…
For the longest time I did not do anything to improve my websites’ loading time. Well that changed the other day. I forced myself to do it. Partially that is. I have not done much to change the settings on the configuration files of Apache2, MySQL and PHP. If I remember correctly, I have done…
These are the things that I did to upgrade my AWS EC2 server. Not exactly the instance but the software that is running on it. I am jotting this down since I might have a use for it some time later. Perhaps somebody in a similar situation as I am will find it useful too….