I have now joined the legions of people who have started their free Github Pages blog with Jekyll, and moved to Hugo. I originally used the Tufte-Jekyll theme, but realised that my stated preference (sidenotes!!) was very far from my revealed preferences (I hyperlink in my text directly a lot more). I also value having a nice table of contents. I want faster builds because this blog will be pretty image-heavy in time to come, because I’ve got a bunch of film cameras to review....

Note: I originally wrote this on PubPub as I was still in the process of fiddling with my site. I hope this helps someone who’s thinking about going back to school too :^) Brief overview of the NUS GC-CF 1 This is a part-time programme that’s targeted at people who don’t have a formal undergraduate background in Computer Science (CS for short). It consists of three courses: IT5001 (Introductory programming course that everyone must take)...

Recently, I went to my friend’s office for lunch and joked that these were “reparations for harvesting my personal data since I was 11”. I also remarked that it was kind of impressive as I don’t think I could’ve monetized my personal data like this (to the point of having kombucha on tap, and more lunch options than one could meaningfully try in one meal). While somewhat funny, it also reflects the way I’ve been slowly socialised to think about software as in terms of these things:...

This is an overview of the various free sources of legal judgments in Singapore, and some of the limitations surrounding the status quo of access in Singapore. My leanings on this matter I’m highly influenced by the Free Access to Law Movement and think that legal information should be accessible to all. This means that all court judgments and legislation should be free for users to access. Here, I’m just thinking about access in terms of “Can I search, and find the full text of a judgment?...

I must confess that I’ve never written a test, but part of my work involves doing that now. I’m learning more about Github Classrooms and how to do autograding. Currently exploring check50 as it allows students to check their own work (as opposed to checks only occurring at the grading stage), but there’s a tradeoff in the form of not being able to make private test cases as check50 works with public Github repos....

Today I didn’t want to be ‘useful’ or make something that is a means to an end. I just felt like playing and let myself do that instead. welcome to my room where like in real life, things are everywhere and somehow rearrange themselves every time you visit.

Small QOL improvement: There is now support on this site for comments with utterances. It uses Github Issues for blog comments.

Worked on one part of the pinhole camera construction calculator. I put the calculation of sensor diagonals into its own component so that I can reuse it across various sections that require sensor diagonal calculation. Using Typescript this time – CS50 has made me appreciate stronger typing.

I’ve been coding in the intervening month (mostly working on a pinhole camera construction calculator for a friend), but definitely haven’t been diligent about documenting it. TL;DR I set up a Docassemble instance using the Suffolk LIT Lab Legal Tech Class textbook (written by Quinten Steenhuis & other contributors), with AWS Lightsail and S3. You can check it out at docassemble.tomoe.asia. Do back up your docassemble interviews though, because I might not pay for this Lightsail instance forever....

Tried working on 2 issues today: (1) saved papers disappear upon page refresh, and (2) making the header sticky. (1) Papers disappearing upon page refresh This occurred as I would set the state of savedPapers to a blank array, then use set the value of an object in localStorage to savedPapers. I didn’t check if there was already an existing item in localStorage, which was why my saved papers would disappear as the value of “saved” would be reset to the equivalent of a blank array (but stringified, since localStorage only takes strings)....