Reading Time: 4 minutes Do you want to be an “involved parent”? I guess at least, we don’t want our kids watching ASMR on youtube all day… or for that matter, watching YouTube shorts, TikTok, Instagram and doing Snapchat? And may I add roblox, adopt me, Minecraft, and Fornite 🙁 Sorry this is the only games I know my… Continue reading Any interest in the Integirls program?
Category: Technology
Math in Focus, Singapore Math Textbook
Reading Time: 2 minutes In my daughters school, we started this math curriculum about 5, or 6 years ago. One thing I noticed in the US, the kids usually don’t have paper textbooks that they can bring home. My impression is the school usually provide the books when kids are in school, during the class. I also think each… Continue reading Math in Focus, Singapore Math Textbook
High profile high impact outages
Reading Time: < 1 minute High profile or high impact outage or incidents are just a way of the life in modern internet, or public cloud. The key is to recover quickly from the incident, and learn from those incidents: post mortem analysis, or in some places they do root cause analysis or RCA, and in my personal opinion, RCA… Continue reading High profile high impact outages
Weekly thought 01-22-2022
Reading Time: < 1 minute I listened to or watched a few interesting youtube video and or twitter space recently. The most significant one is the “storytelling”, I believe this is probably as important as “compounding effect” in investing and life time learning. Below is the youtube video, how to speak, by Prof Patrick Winston of MIT Twitter Space (how… Continue reading Weekly thought 01-22-2022
Teach kids programming
Reading Time: < 1 minute I am thinking about this, also there was an ask from two parents. Some of the things I think I can start at first class, also some of the things I am thinking about teaching (more systematic). Starter: raspberry pi (and micro bit), coder master (Sophia’s game), the lego technic motor sets (not coding but… Continue reading Teach kids programming
One set of source code – 12 factors app principle no. 1
Reading Time: 3 minutes For 12 factor application the No. 1 principle is one source code base. Today I was thinking about this topic: one sets of source code for one app, and use configuration for language, region or other different settings for different customers. And this reminded me of some of the articles I read (such as this… Continue reading One set of source code – 12 factors app principle no. 1
Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutes Downloaded Noobs image installer (imager_1.6.2) to Mac, unpack (or install) so that I have “Raspberry Pi Imager” on Mac, and then used it to create the bootable OS on the sd card using that software. After that insert the sd card to the appropriate slot on p3, also plugged in hdmi for monitor, and usb… Continue reading Raspberry Pi
Roblox Outage
Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update 4: 01-21-2022) Roblox published the root cause here. (Update 3: 11-03-2021) I came across this website that shows nice stats for Roblox (I noticed downdetector only shows 24 hours history by default, not sure how to customize it). I vaguley recall I also see a github repo that can scan the roblox APIs, but… Continue reading Roblox Outage
Hiring Right
Reading Time: 2 minutes In a little over last year or so, I was involved in many technical interviews, and sometimes hiring decisions (one vote only, but a No vote is usually a No for the candidate). This is quite different from normal technical contributor’s job. But I learn something from this process too. I think overall I had… Continue reading Hiring Right
Java keytool
Reading Time: < 1 minute Keytool The Most Common Java Keytool Keystore Commands import keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias root -file Thawte.crt -keystore keystore.jks (or cacerts) (keytool -keystore $CACERTS_STORE -storepass changeit -importcert -alias jfrog.root -file jfrog.root.cer -noprompt) list keytool -list -v -keystore $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts create mulesoft keytool -genkey -keyalg RSA -alias <key-alias> -keystore <keystore-name>.jks sslshopper keytool -genkey -keyalg RSA -alias mydomain -keystore… Continue reading Java keytool