Author: Joe Jr Yamut

Recently I installed a Snap package of the Steam application on my Ubuntu 16.04. I read about it in a blog post and just had to try it out. I’ve been migrating my most used desktop applications into their Snap versions over the past year, so why not Steam too. It’s “cleaner” that way, or…

Yes, Ubuntu 16.04 codenamed Xenial Xerus is officially supported by Ubuntu up to 10 years. As most of us already know, Ubuntu versions that start with an even number and end with 04 are LTS or Long-Term Support. These LTS versions are supported up to 5 years. By default. That means Canonical will have regular…

For the longest time I recall I’ve always been prone to do this when doing String comparisons* in Java… …And furthermore, I often find myself using the .equalsIgnoreCase() method. (Yes, considering that the requirements does not care about the letter case.) There is really nothing wrong with this way of checking if the string values…

Early last year, I was thinking about getting a gaming PC. Already started asking around and looking at the prices of the components that I thought I would need to build my gaming machine. While the desire was there, something was always holding me back. (More expensive than I thought.) Then I found out late…

Here’s to no more Covid19 scares and other stupidities, … to never be forced to wear those annoying face masks again (Especially those absurd face shields that was unique to the Philippines), … to finally be able to travel outside of the country, time permitting (If only plane rides don’t cost that much anymore because…

For the Nintendo Switch game version. This is a fantastic game! Loving it. I happened to stumble upon a games news article talking about which Nintendo Switch games to play that have recently been released or coming out soon. That was in October. A month or so later, and here I am playing NieR:Automata The…

An often overlooked (perhaps) way to write cleaner if condition statements. This is not about having to go through all the refactoring into a Factory pattern, Switch statements, and other possible conditional logic methods just to avoid our classic if condition. Rather merely making it look better, when the scenario is right for it. Of…

Uh-oh! If you’re forgetful like me, chances are that you may come into this situation one way or another in the not so distant future. Bless you if you never do. I really hope you don’t. Write that password down somewhere. Safe. Not on a piece of paper please. In any case, if it does…

Saw this problem on the Internet about Multiples. Thought I might solve it. Don’t know why I dislike these kinds of things, but still want to try to solve it. It always seems tricky, although elementary? For transparency I only reviewed the Maths definition of a Multiple just to make sure if memory has not…

Just got this baby. It looks really cool, with a good amount of exterior details put into the model. This is not brand new. You can tell it’s not in mint condition too. But I don’t care, it still looks really nice! There’s no physical damage or missing parts (I think). Granted there is a…

It has been several weeks since I have completed the main Monster Hunter Rise quest line. That is, all of the elder dragon quests starting from Wind Serpent Ibushi, Narwa The Allmother up to Crimson Glow Valstrax. That last one is surely one big and mean dragon. He is one of the more annoying dragons…

Cagayan de Oro ( < 2006 ) My home town 🏡 💙. Cagayan de Oro (CDO) is one of the more peaceful + prosperous cities in the Philippines. This place is fondly called the City of Golden Friendship. She sits in the northern part of Mindanao, and acts as a hub linking other surrounding smaller…

Java Beans are eagerly created in Spring Boot applications by default. That includes dependency beans. This is something I need to remember always. I tend to forget it and take it for granted since Spring Boot is great at spoiling Java developers. While that is a boon in most times, it can easily become a…

One of the things I find quite nice on my Android smartphone is the Google news feed that it sends me consistently for my reading pleasure. This Android feature can be quickly accessed by swiping from the left when I’m at my home screen. I often do this, usually after I wake up. That is,…

Just recently I have been playing around with multiple active profiles. This is apart from having the main application config, plus the profile that matches the environment on which the application is running. That is quite commonplace. Instead I’m talking more of an additional profile that gets activated aside from the environment profile based on…