Homelab
The joy of making small tools
How I rediscovered the joy in solving small problems.
Lim Xing Zhi
Tinkerer, Web Developer, CLI enthusiast
Homelab
What can you do with Tailscale?
I have been using Tailscale for nearly a year now. It handles my Time Machine backups, stream content from my media server, SSH from my iPhone to my MacBook and connects my new gaming PC to my Minecraft server. Using Tailscale as virtual Network and Transport Layers I first configured
General
A private story about growth
Today, I am going to share a rather intimate story about myself. One that is quite private, but a quintessential Singaporean story. A story about growth.
Homelab
My new Network Attached Storage and its Hardening
I got a Network Attached Storage from Synology a few months ago, and I did some very rudimentary hardening of it. Here are some notes.
Learning notes
First Impressions on Frontend Runtime Safety - Zod in a Day
How to achieve runtime safety with Zod on the Frontend
Learning notes
What is the shared responsibility model
In my final semester in school, I made a presentation about security threats faced by cloud technologies. In that session, my professor began his questioning with a simple question: "What is the shared responsibility model". I let my teammate answer that question that day because she was a
Learning notes
Publish-Subscribe VS Request-Response
My personal learning notes of publish-subscribe VS request-response patterns.
General
Reflections on the past 2 years
I am thrilled to share that I have transited to a full-time role at Staizen! It has been a long and challenging journey, but it has been worth every moment. I want to reflect on my past 2 years of experience and growth.
ReactJS
Build Productivity Tools with Raycast
Raycast is a Spotlight alternative on MacOS. What is it and how to write extensions for it?
General
A Practical Example of Encryption of an Apple App, Thoughts about Markdown - interesting things
This week, I was reading up on the end-to-end encryption of Bear and I have some thoughts about the benefits of text-based formats like Markdown.
Reads
PARA System and The Economist - interesting things
Hello, its the weekend before National Day here in Singapore and here are some updates of what I am reading. I am still a software engineer and I still read up on development news, I just want to write about other things that I find helpful and interesting. The PARA
General
Personal Updates July 2022
Some life updates, tech I've been learning and books I've been reading