Since I have been living in Mexico for the last two years, I brought my lifestyle from Canada with me. I mow my own grass. I do my own landscaping in general. Do our own cleaning, like sweep my own floor. Wash my own car. Sounds mundane, something us in the anglo world would consider … Read more
UI Test, often with selenium, puppeteer or some other webdriver that automates the interaction with the browser, is for me the bottom line of all test in a Web UI project. All your level of unit tests from db, to middleware, to even modules in the frontend, won’t ever equal the level of testing a … Read more
Listening to SE Radio 655: Charles Humble on Professional Skills for Software Engineers, it discussed many useful or necessary skills for new programmers. But what caught my attention later in the podcasts was that it talked about writing blogs and contributing to open-source projects. More specifically, it showcases the person’s technical prowess (when contributing to … Read more
At the time of this writing, Tesla is still alive and going balls-to-the-walls with “Robo Taxis” . But in my very very humble opinion (I am a braggart, but this time, I am humble enough to write this on my 0 visibility blog), Thunderf00t’s timeline of 3 years to bankruptcy seems about right, or maybe, … Read more
Introduction Out of topic. At least for now. I want to start transitioning away from Software. I almost reached 30 and I just bought my first 4-plex. I have a very long-term detailed plan on how I want to proceed with my life and hopefully, I can document that in this zero-visibility blog. Back to … Read more
Introduction Ever since I’ve entered the world of web software development in 2014, when I created my first website so I have a porfolio while applying for my first Software Engineering job, there was a new kid in the block. Not me, a young man then who is trying to put his foot in the … Read more
Introduction For the past 2 years now, or whoever is keeping track when this whole pandemic began, remote work became prevalent. As vaccine looms, everyone anticipated going back to the office, but that got shut down with the barage of variants that is coming up. This blog is not about COVID. Nor is it necessarily … Read more
Touchy-Feely Version I’ve been using this word a lot at work lately. Framework. I’m sure they thought it at school what a framework is, but I was never really able to put it in words. Well, I was never good with words anyways (almost got F on multiple English University courses). But after in the … Read more
Introduction This document describes how SonarK works with the upstream project it is forked from, which is Kibana. This is in an attempt to make the upgrading process more manageable by a human being. Problems With “Bulk Upgrade” Up until the writing of this document, upgrades have been performed once every few months when we … Read more
Problem We recently hit a problem where users pasting large numbers in a <input type=”number”/> (part of a query input box), causing a wrong result. After further investigation, we realized that numbers (integer or floating points) exceeding 2^51 causes problems in Firefox, and probably just a bigger precision would cause problems in chrome. At the … Read more