In the field of software development, it seems almost necessary to stay up-to-date with the latest trends, technologies and even programming languages in order to take advantage of their benefits and stay ahead of the competition. This is especially true in web development, where it seems like a shiny new JavaScript framework is released every other week. Following from this, I decided to pick up Vue.js over the weekend in order to learn something new and brush up my web development skills before my upcoming internship.

I spent the last few days traveling to East Java, Indonesia with my family to visit the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park. The national park is centered around Mt. Bromo or Gunung Bromo (in Bahasa Indonesia), an active volcano near the cities of Malang and Surabaya.

I recently gave a talk on getting quality internships in the tech industry as part of NTU Open Source Society’s TGIFHacks. My slide deck from the talk is below.

UPDATE: This blog is no longer published using Ghost. I use Jekyll + GitHub Pages now.

The following is a short guide to set up a secure Ghost blog on a DigitalOcean droplet running Ubuntu (which is how this blog is set up).

Bootstrap Cards (GitHub, Demo) is a simple Bootstrap template I built about a year ago (and still maintain today) that implements card-based design. It’s built on HTML, JavaScript & Sass (compiled to CSS) and incorporates a few open-source JavaScript & CSS plugins/libraries for animations and icons.