A few months ago, I came across a proverbial Twitter battle between Democratic politician Bernie Sanders and the founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk. Gone are the days that an internet spat could be dismissed as petty and trivial because, for better or worse, social media has become our public square…

This was a prelude I wrote to answer the titular question for a platform I’m building. It always baffles me when I hear people say that studying the humanities is useless and a waste of time. The notion comes in many forms: “Got an arts degree so that I can…

A few weeks ago, I began exploring the JAM Stack (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup) along with Airtables API. Subsequently, this mini-project was inspired by James Q Quicks tutorials. *This is still an ongoing project, and (hopefully) I’ll keep adding more features to it the more I learn. Demo deployed on…

To my partner’s annoyance, I have a running joke I make at social gatherings about wanting to have ten kids one day — enough to play a five-on-five basketball game. I tell myself the reason behind the joke is for some engaging befuddling humour to lighten up the mood in…

“All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger. Roots entrench themselves and branches grow. The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us…

Capture the Webhook sent by GitHub, manipulate it and send a POST request to Jenkins. — If you want to skip the tutorial and head straight to the solution simply clone the GitHub repository and set the .env variables. Our company required the following CD/CD architecture:

In the last two years of my life, I’ve become fascinated with history, particularly on the shifting of our cultural and moral zeitgeist. One such shift was the sexual revolution of the 1960s. John Misachi at WorldAtlas defines the movement as such: Sexual revolution aimed at exploring both the body…

There is no such thing as a pain-free life, pain is inevitable, and I believe once we understand this truth, either, we will begin to find meaning in this pain or lead a life of resentment, vengefulness and nihilism. The choice is ultimately left to our own will. Before the…

I took this picture along the corner of Swanston and Bourke Street. I think of it as a reminder of the impact the recent bushfires had on Australia. The 26th of January is Australia Day, and a few thoughts came to my mind. During the 1999 Australian constitutional referendum, prime…