If someone ask me how to be successful, I might say a lot of things. But lately I learned maybe you don’t need to know too many things to be successful. Maybe one to start, that is, breathe. We are all born to breathe, but at least for me, the…

It’s common knowledge that when it comes to the protection, cash never hurts. But do you know cash is a key ingredient in managing the risk of any investment. Let’s jump into it. What is cash? Here the cash isn’t just the money in your hand. It needs to be deposited in a…

Everyone is different, I heard this a lot. No argument for that. For someone who want to change, I recently notice my weakness is probably a habit, and also I recognize the weakness is, more or less a habit. Devil is in the detail Don’t dwell in the why/should part, for instance, by the time…

It’s quite common to have two monitors these days for working with your day to day project. Because people realize it becomes handy when there’s another monitor around when you need that extra space. However there’s a lot of misconception of using multiple monitors to boost productivity, especially when you…

SWR (pronounced “swir”), which stands for “Stale-While-Revalidate.” SWR is a popular JavaScript library for data fetching in React applications, and it’s often used in conjunction with React’s state management and rendering capabilities. Understanding SWR - SWR SWR is a React Hooks library for data fetching. SWR first returns the data from cache (stale), then sends the fetch…swr.vercel.app SWR provides a simple and efficient way to fetch and cache data from APIs or other sources while…

Debounce is a technique casually used for UI applications to prevent premature actions issued by user actions. In the device world, it is a much more common problem, and everyone encounters it because the problem has something to do with the basic switches or keys. Say we have a keyboard…

I prototyped a small device named one knob and two keys. The idea is pretty simple, most of time in the “Read” mode, you can use the knob to scroll the page up and down. And it can have couple of other modes. For instance, in the “Media” mode, you…

When you hit a key on your keyboard, there will be a key code sent to the computer instantly. You figured that once you see the keystroke was printed on your computer screen, as I am typing this sentence. But how exactly is this process executed? …

I have always dreamed of customizing ways to use the keyboard. In the past I tried different keyboards, however there’s only that many commercial options that you want to give a short to. Recently after I have played with some basic microcontrollers, I gained a bit more perspective on this…