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In the past few weeks, mega music star Taylor Swift started selling tickets to her concert in Singapore. As it is the only stop in South East Asia, her tickets were in high demand. People from all over the region are fighting for the tickets. News articles reported fans asking 40 friends and relatives to register for the general sale. There were originally 3 nights available but after overwhelming registration numbers for the general sale, the organizers increased it to 6 nights....

Contact me forms are part of many websites. These forms are a way for a user or interested customer to contact the business. To manage this service, companies usually require a backend service to manage and process the inputs. However, service deployments and server maintenance are expensive and time-consuming. For small projects, it might be more worthwhile to use serverless technologies like Cloudflare Workers or AWS Lambda. What is serverless? Contrary to what the name suggests, a serverless architecture still uses servers in the background to run....

Recently, I started using Cloudflare tunnels to expose my server to the web. It provides security as well as accessibility. I do not have to expose any ports on my server and the links provided to access the services on my server are all SSL protected. That got me thinking if it was possible to integrate web development into a Linux server. The problem with doing web development remotely is that you cannot test and see the updates you have made....

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In the past week, there was a big TOTO draw with a top prize of around $11million. For those who don’t know what it is, here is a short summary: Toto is lottery game hosted by Singapore Pools - Singapore’s only legal lottery provider. In this game, you pick 6 numbers between 1 and 49. If your 6 numbers match the 6 numbers that are drawn out, you will win the top prize of that draw....

Recently, I watched a video on YouTube. It was an old video of Steve Jobs answering someone at WWDC 1997 (I was not even born yet). Have a look. For some context, Steve Jobs just returned to Apple after being famously kicked out. Apple, in 1997, was not doing so great and Jobs made many changes to the company on his return. Not many people liked the changes that he was making....

Not too long ago, I just received my last final examination results. Wasn’t fantastic, but I can officially say I have graduated university. Just to set the context, I studied at the National University of Singapore (NUS) majoring in Computer Science and Statistics. I am no super genius. Just slightly above average if not just average in terms of grades. Modules Taken Year 1 Sem 1: CS1101S - Programming Methodology...

Hello World. A while back, my friend and I made our first mobile application. The goal to the app was simple. Keep track of who you met on which day so you can notify them if you got infected with a virus Motivation At the time of building the application, we have a pandemic on going in Singapore. We believe that if you are infected, you have a social responsibility to inform the people that you have met recently so they can monitor and prevent the spread....

Have you ever wondered why TV shows in the past have theme songs? So did I. Every show has a theme song. However, in the age of streaming content online, people would just skip the intro sequence (Netflix even came out with a button to let you “Skip Intro” when the theme song is playing). So what was the reason for having a theme song in the first place? Why would they waste time on a song rather than let the broadcaster play more advertisements?...

There are many recent news headlines about how regular people made millions selling NFTs. What are these NFTs and why are they so valuable? NFTs stand for Non-Fungible Tokens. They are essentially tokens that are unique and cannot be replaced. Cryptocurrency VS NFTs Cryptocurrency has often been tied to the term NFTs. Though their underlying principles are the same (blockchain), they are completely different in terms of what they represent. Cryptocurrency is similar to currency....