Automate your Shopify store with AWS — Background Some time ago, I was tasked to find a way to automate the writing of Shopify order information from the platform to an external source. The main goal of this was to eliminate the tedium involved with manually transferring information (along with human errors) into their external tracking sheet. This…

6 Quick Steps — This is a quick guide on transferring files between your local system and a remote server. 1. Download iTerm: https://iterm2.com/downloads.html 2. Install lrzsz package in iTerm terminal sudo brew install lrzsz 3. Add the following scripts to usr/local/bin in both local and remote server iterm2-send-zmodem.sh iterm2-recv-zmodem.sh 4. Change Permission for iTerm scripts (both local & remote server)

Overengineering at it’s finest — My recent launch into the working world has got start me started thinking more about my finances. Ah yes, finances. The true hallmark of an adult. Up till recently, my approach to spending had always been centered around a ‘budget’. You had X amount of money, therefore, you can only…

A compiled list of Software engineering related words in Mandarin — Due to recent work circumstances, I’ve been exposed heavily to reading documentation written in Chinese (中文文档). As someone who grew up in an English speaking household, despite being Chinese, the process of getting through just a single page document was not only agonizing slow but mentally taxing as well. It…

Hands on guide for anyone interested in web scraping! — I’ve recently had several opportunities to build crawlers from my freelance work. During my journey in learning and building these scrapers (albeit simple ones) I have come up with a simple framework (or approach) for building your very own crawler. This article shall outline and explore some of these concepts…

If you just want a bite sized summary — General Ideas Anxiety management Ground rules Structures Anxiety management Be Mindful of creeping anxiety. When signs of anxiety kick in before public speaking, acknowledge them and don’t resist them. Greet our anxiety and say hey — “Take a deep breath and don’t let anxiety spiral out of control.” Re-framing. It’s a conversation, not a…

4 ways to improve how you should handle Exceptions — I’ll be honest, Exception Handling had never been and still probably isn’t at the forefront of my concerns when writing code. As a Junior Engineer I find that I am probably more concerned with speed over robustness of code. Which, needless to say, has led to a handful of issues…

Python based approach — Problem You are given an array of integers. Return the minimum number of ‘move-to-back’ required to sort the array in ascending order. A ‘move-to-back’ is defined as removing an integer from it’s current position and pushing it to the end of the array Sample Input: [1,4,2,5,3] | Expected Output: 2

Must read ByteDance interview guide — If you’re currently interviewing or thinking of interviewing with ByteDance, this articles for you. I hope it can shed some light on the interview process as well as gives you some key things to watch out for! Profile [for some context] ~1 Year of working experience Bachelors in Information Systems Interviewed in the past…