We recently won our internal hackathon by building a tool that makes segment creation way more intuitive — using natural language input instead of rigid filters and forms. The idea is simple: instead of digging through dropdowns and complex field mappings, users can type something like: “Users who signed up in the last 30 days…
I’ve been wanting to offset my sedentary lifestyle by starting with bare minimum changes. (I will explain later why I only want the bare minimum). When the pandemic hit in 2020, our company transitioned to a remote setup, taking away the few steps I used to get during my commute and lunch breaks. My sedentary…
I lost my hero— someone I looked up to since I was a kid. Someone who taught me that hardwork trumps talent because if you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it. Someone who cultivated the whole Mamba Mentality philosophy— the mantra that I’ve adopted into my daily…
My noob attempt at a cinematic shot on Ditaytayan Island using DJI Mavic Pro.
Today, I woke up to the the craziest news that LeBron James has agreed to 4-year, $154M deal with Lakers. LeBron James is a Laker. Let. That. Sink. In. LeBron motherfucking James is a motherfucking Laker. Holy shit! It’s been hours and I’m still wrapping my head around the fact that LeBron is a Laker.…
Sometimes it makes sense to treat errors as part of an application’s “valid” flow of events. Meaning, expected errors should not necessarily make your code go crazy when random errors are raised. With that in mind, I created a way to implement some kind of “Result Object” by rescuing StandardError instances and handling these errors…
I just finished listening to The Dispatcher by John Scalzi, narrated by Zachary Quinto. It’s Audible-exclusive and was created as audio-first. This means that it was intended to be an audiobook first before a printed version so the process of writing was a bit different, as per Scalzi himself. The novella lasts for only 2 hours and…
Just recently, I showed my “2017 ops” to someone and I told her that I wasn’t able to accomplish some major items on the list and it’s making me sad. She then told me that I should refocus my “year-end reflection” so that it has a more grateful tone instead of being hard on myself. …
A few weeks ago, I created a basic Ruby gem implementation of the “Toy Robot Simulator” problem. Toy Robot Simulator wuttt??? The scenario is that the application is a simulation of a toy robot moving on a square table of certain dimensions. The robot is free to roam around the surface but must not fall.…
I created something out of boredom: http://stuff.katpadi.ph. So… obviously it’s a game. It’s not original. It’s nothing amazing. It’s a space invaders clone with a twist. I am still enhancing the “twist” part. There’s a heartbreaker (it’s a pig!). It rips the hearts out. But the hearts still give hearts anyway. It’s silly, I know. There are…