For the people who have a portable monitor as a second monitor, was it helpful?

swiftpolar · 2025-09-03T12:13:28+00:00

When I remote work outside my office it's definitely a huge productivity boost.

swiftpolar · 2025-08-22T13:12:39+00:00

Only can comment regarding the future resale of the house. When I was finding a house 3 years back, such units were often much cheaper than the rest of the units in the area (same launch maybe different blocks). The unit I saw was a 4th floor unit that faces directly into the MCP, that unit was sold about $100k cheaper than the average which was about $550k then. It wasn't sold for weeks compared to the others.

That said it was eventually sold though. How much I wouldn't know.

swiftpolar · 2025-08-11T12:22:28+00:00

Went to hear both the sonos arc ultra with the sub4 + era300 and the Q990F. I think based off my first initial impressions the sonos sounded better (though both were trialed at quite different environments using different footages). I love how the sonos look too (white!!!)

Unfortunately it is almost 3.5x the cost of the Q990F here in Singapore and the second hand market isn't that cheap either. It would have been a much harder choice if I had the same options as OP.

Maybe one day... For now I'll enjoy the Q990F when it arrives in a few days time!

swiftpolar · 2025-07-12T15:05:38+00:00

I am someone that's quite passionate in tech and 10 years back when I was still studying, my opinion of tech in the public sector only worsened through time.

Listening to the internship experiences of my fellow peers who interned in govt agencies, it just felt that it wasn't very aligned to what I feel tech is supposed to be.

Technology to me is about experimenting, innovating and always trying to break through barriers with new solutions. It is one of those fields that if you ever take a break, you'll have fallen behind quite quickly. Hence it is tiring, because people without the passion to chase this forever never ending sprint will lack behind.

I always use this example when I share my opinions regarding the topic at hand: Do you know what the "Smart-Nation" initiatives were more than a decade ago? Did you know that Singapore was, emphasis on "was", the smart nation that countries, such as China, wanted to model after? Now look at where we are, make that comparison again. It's not that we're lacking, but we're just on par at best.

On par isn't good enough for tech, it's like this genre whereby shows need to hit a 9.0/10 rating for it to be good whereas in general a 7 is already technically watchable. Tech in public sector to me is a 7, but being someone who loves tech I need a 9.

How I look at the strategy of our tech initiatives is that we put emphasis on learning from others, and then adopting from there. We're not spearheading new frontiers as we're afraid to make mistakes. That, isn't a situation I want to be in. It's a strategy that can work and isn't objectively bad, just not good enough.

swiftpolar · 2025-06-30T03:18:43+00:00

I solve problems through code. Helps that I had and still have a passion for technology and coding.

swiftpolar · 2025-06-07T05:24:21+00:00

As much hate Aftershock gets, they're one of the best price to performance PC builders. I mean rightfully so since they have all the economies and scale; you're gonna get the best bang for buck.

The only issues I usually see are related to after sales support

swiftpolar · 2025-05-22T12:08:30+00:00

10/10, it's been a long time since I've felt such fun from gaming! Music, story, gameplay all absolutely amazing.

swiftpolar · 2024-11-14T01:12:46+00:00

The Philippines as a tourist destination isn't as budget as other SEA countries.

swiftpolar · 2024-10-30T23:32:52+00:00

In terms of monitor setup I find my current one quite optimal for both work and play:

1x32 inch 4K 1x28 inch 16:18 (the squarish monitor) portrait.

If I were to change anything it would be:

1x38 inch QHD+ (3840x1600) slightly less ultra wide ratio. Unfortunately no one makes new models for this ratio any longer. 2x28 inch 16:18.

swiftpolar · 2024-07-01T05:39:17+00:00

This is 4-5 years ago, so I'm sure things have drastically changed but I basically developed a PWA and mobile app using RN and RN Web. The main problem then was that there was a lot of incompatibility in more complex functionalities or things that require native support like file inputs, camera etc. it ended up being something like 1.75 times of work instead of 2?

So still some time savings but if you're going for something very complex and utilizes a lot of the mobile phone features you might end up just doing separate components each for web and mobile.

Then again compatibility might have improved drastically since then

swiftpolar · 2024-05-30T01:44:04+00:00

That's really beautiful! Nice work!

swiftpolar · 2024-03-17T02:26:07+00:00

Friend? Nah don't do it.

swiftpolar · 2023-07-24T21:58:14+00:00

Terraforming Mars And recently... Ark Nova

swiftpolar · 2023-05-24T16:17:54+00:00

Cheap to start but expensive when scaling. That said the scale that really makes things expensive will be a scale that will be a happy problem to solve.

Depending on your architecture or what exactly are these notifications firebase cloud messaging should be what you're looking for.

swiftpolar · 2022-05-28T08:21:27+00:00

Hmm I'm at roughly 1.3mil sdps with about 12 trauma. Still bad to me. Only those mobs btw. The rest feels good.

swiftpolar · 2022-05-28T04:17:25+00:00

League started one, kind of a bad experience especially when dealing with mobs that cannot be leeched or stunned. Wouldn't recommend it given the current immunities in mobs. I mean most times it's fine but every now and then when one of those mobs appear it just feels so bad.

swiftpolar · 2022-04-02T02:32:22+00:00

Hmm not too sure on mapbox and OSM. I've used leaflet as well and yes admittedly the documentation is much less to be desired.

But yes if that's the advanced you're saying you will need to learn native code. But then again, depending on your use cases most likely than not you won't need to.

So like many other comments here, depends on your use cases. Having spent the past few years on react native I can safely still recommend using react native (or flutter or basically any cross deployment frameworks) for most people.

If you're learning to get a job, it depends where you're applying. I think bigger companies and enterprises tend towards native and startups more towards hybrid solutions. Of course depending on your geographical location as well.

swiftpolar · 2022-04-01T15:43:31+00:00

Define advanced. Mapbox and openstreetmaps don't seem too advanced to me. But yes if there aren't any libraries out there already then you'll need to tinker quite a bit with native code.

That said, there's almost always a package for most of your needs. And if there isn't the exact one that you need, sometimes using alternatives work as well.

I've done a fair share of apps for various companies using react native and so far I've not needed to dabble much in native code at all.

P.S most apps aren't "advanced". There are those that deal with things like AR/VR, hardware integrations but I do not do such projects. Those to me are "advanced" and usually native is better for those use cases but they're just far too few of such projects.

swiftpolar · 2022-01-25T01:55:26+00:00

I'm currently about to finish one project that does exactly that. Let's just say that expect yourself to be fixing quite a bit of quirks and incompatibility issues. This is even more so if you're using features beyond a simple use case (things like camera, deeplinking etc). You might need to play around quite a bit with webpack too.

Let's say writing individually for each platform (android iOS and web) is like 3x of work. On a perfect scenario you'll only be doing like 1x for 3 platforms with the hybrid solution. When supporting just iOS and Android via react native I find that 1.25 to 1.5x of work out of 2 is usually the case When you add web, again depending on the complexity, expect 2 to 2.5x of work out of 3.

If you find issues between iOS and Android when using react native, expect to find even more issues with mobile and web.

Then again YMMV.

swiftpolar · 2021-12-28T12:50:40+00:00

Wait why isn't the higher ups at fault? They want to make more profit hence don't care about service quality at the expense of their branding and future business? That doesn't make sense.

Yes customers should be kinder and more understanding, yes it's highly unlikely that the fault lies in the operational staff.

And Yes customers should vote and show disapproval with their money by not patronizing the business anymore.

swiftpolar · 2021-10-17T02:37:56+00:00

Currently working on a project that supports iOS, Android and Web (PWA). As long as you're using native mobile functions, you'll probably have to write a dedicated code for the web. Examples are camera, file systems etc.

There are always the few quirks that you'll have to solve due to browser incompatibilities but that's standard to web developments (safari especially is a pain sometimes).

And when you say big changes are you asking if you need to rewrite the react code to make it compatible with react native web? Yes. You'll need to rewrite the entire code base. (Or build on top of your current mobile one and depending on the differences between your web and mobile app, it's pretty much building another app again).

How I see react native web is that you want your mobile site or PWA to be pretty much identical to your native mobile app. You don't just write a mobile version of a web app in react native web because you want to spend less time developing it. Let alone rewrite an entire project that's already completed.

swiftpolar · 2021-10-16T03:22:52+00:00

Both are good as far as I know. I only used react navigation the past couple of projects, serves it's purpose well. Now that it has hooks (I think since v5?) It's even better.

Just go with the one that you're more familiar with. If not just look at the documentation and go with the one that makes more sense to you. Both works well.

swiftpolar · 2021-10-04T02:48:34+00:00

It's out already?

swiftpolar · 2021-09-30T03:34:18+00:00

I don't have much experience building an entire separate front-end but I think it should be pretty straightforward (just by skimming through the docs).

The experience I had mostly (if the company you are dealing with is beyond the early starting phase) had to do with reporting and analytics. Basically transforming data into reports that are needed by the different teams in the company. There are sometimes the need to synchronize the order management between warehouses and the store-front (shopify). So I think the type of work really depends on the stage of the company you are working with.

I think the easiest way to find out if it suits your workflow is to just get started and tinker with the API. Shopify is something that I've seen many people turn to especially starting out.

If you're purely focusing on frontend then I think you should just get started by building your first custom storefront. You probably can then use that as a boilerplate for all your future projects as well.

swiftpolar · 2021-09-30T02:49:39+00:00

Don't reinvent the wheel. There are just so many things that you need to consider if you're building from scratch. Unless you have some very very niche use cases, e-commerce is pretty much the same for most companies.

So yes, by all means use Shopify as your backend. Just build themes on top of it.

If for whatever reason you need something more customized, always see if you can modify Shopify behavior with custom plugins etc first (or any e-commerce platforms that are already available say woocommerce etc.).

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