Cowboy Programming with my mate Chronos I used to work with this guy, let's call him Chronos, who was a classic cowboy programmer. He coded everything like his hair was on fire, the code he wrote looked like crap and was full of bugs. Aside from that he was actually
Bank Statement Converter - Lessons What is it? Bank Statement Converter is a simple web application that converts PDF bank statements into CSV files. Why? I got the idea for this application while preparing my company taxes for my company Dragon King Creation Limited. My accountant wanted various bank
week-summary 2021 - Week 13 Summary Last week went pretty well, my goal was to get the Android application integrated with the new websocket API. By Thursday I was happy with the code and submitted it to Google for review. Monday - [x] Android: Resize Sylvia pictures - [x] Android:
week-summary 2021 - Week 12 Summary I took Monday and Friday off, but I worked a bit on Saturday and all of Sunday. I drank a lot of beers and worked on integrating Girlfriend Plus Android with the web socket API. Monday I did half of stage five of the
week-summary 2021 - Week 11 Summary It was a good week, I migrated Girlfriend Plus and Boyfriend Plus to the new Android Billing Library, deleted a ton of unused code and made huge changes to the Story structure. Monday ### Monday 8 March 2021 - [x] Watch this https://www.youtube.
week-summary 2021 - Week 10 Summary Not the best week, I didn't get much done Monday to Wednesday. Monday I took the day off to go hiking. I wanted to do about 20 KM, so I did Stage 4 and Stage 5 of the Maclehose Trail. The last time I
week-summary 2021 - Week 9 Summary Overall I think this week went pretty well, I think I could have written more code and gotten into my office a bit earlier. Monday * [x] Blog: Thursday's TODO list * [x] Reply to accountant again - [x] Schedule a call with Henry, Toby and
project-idea Project Idea #3 - Cantonese Text to Speech App This is quite a simple idea, back in 2012 I was reading about how to pronounce Cantonese sounds, and stumbled upon a website that had audio files for every single Cantonese sound. I download all the files, and discovered that there were only about
project-idea Project Idea #2 - DeFi Securitization I followed along as the GameStop, Robinhood and clearing house problems happened and realised the financial system isn't very transparent. I was incredibly surprised when Robinhood blocked purchasing of GameStop because their clearing houses required them to post more collateral. So when this happened
project-idea Project Idea #1 - Audio Air Traffic Controller I'm a big fan of aviation, one of my favourite shows is Air Crash Investigations. Around 2017 I started watching a few youtube channels that animated interesting interactions between pilots and air traffic controllers. While watching these videos I realised this could be a
Food Poisoning On Wednesday I took a day off and went for a hike. I walked from Pak Kung Au to Mui Wo. While hiking I listened to Dark Net Diaries and an audio book version of "Business Adventures". Then when I finished the hike I
Creating a Ghost Blog I used to have a Wordpress blog with GoDaddy.com, I forgot to renew it and have no idea how to recover any of the posts. What a shame. I decided to setup a Ghost blog because they look good and Wordpress is massively
Text Story Format Last Thursday was a pretty productive day. I focused on creating a tool that parses textual story data into a JSON structure for Girlfriend Plus Web's new engine. The stories in Girlfriend Plus are made up of Interactions that link to each other and