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My remote work schedule

Published on March 04, 2025
I have been working remotely for more than 5 years now. My work schedule had changed throughout the years.  Currently it’s split into three focused chunk of time.  First one right after my mornin...

2025 is the year I'm going minimalist.

Published on January 17, 2025
Sorry that's all I can share. (being a minimalist, you know... get it?) Joke aside, I have been having this urge to simplify lot of things in my life.  I just don't want to think or worry about ...

Hello 2025, give me these:

Published on January 07, 2025
Personal Health is my #1 priority this year, both mental and physical: • Go out for a walk and be outside during sunrise and sunset • No laptop and minimal phone time after sunset • Slowly reach ...

Quality comes first.

Published on December 18, 2024
rule #1: prioritise customer happiness.   rule #2: always make profit.  rule #0: quality comes first.

My year-end vacation starts today.

Published on December 17, 2024
I was planning to spend some time on my side projects, but I want to be away from the computer and mobile and chill.   I have been reading Company of One. I’ll complete it and then go for a road t...

I feel dumb.

Published on October 25, 2024
I hate how 200 feels well over my budget but 199 within my budget.  Noticed this when I started a trial for 199 but then realised it’s 200.   I feel dumb. 

Be nice.

Published on October 07, 2024
Being nice to others is not a bug; it's a feature and a feature we all need to aspire to live by. That doesn't mean we can't be truthful anymore. That's the argument I often hear. There's a way to...

Nothing is as simple as it seems.

Published on July 16, 2024
I started working on the blogging platform One Simple Blog thinking it should be simple to build a blogging platform.  It’s a well established market and doesn’t have to educate customers on what ...

The money we make.

Published on June 16, 2024
There is something unfair in this world. It’s the money we make.  People make different amount even if they basically do same work, more or less.  Magic happens when we: 1. Understand the game of...

A little hack that keeps me sane

Published on June 01, 2024
I have this reminder "What are you going to regret?" set for every 3 months. [Screenshot 2024-06-01 at 10.38.09 AM.png] It's been sitting there for two days and I don't know what I'll regret. Whic...

I don’t trust you

Published on March 09, 2024
I joke with friends that I don’t trust them nor anybody.  but on a serious note,  - why does trust matter? - what does trust mean?  - do you trust yourself? if yes, what do you trust yourself w...

Follow your intuition, not dreams

Published on March 05, 2024
Don’t follow your dreams. It’s just dreams.  I don’t even understand why use the word dream for something we want to do, achieve or even yearn for.  Dream is what we experience during certain sta...

What's up with my blogging platform in Feb, 2024

Published on March 04, 2024
🎉 Product updates & 👀Sneak peeks Nope, there isn’t anything. That’s one of the reason this Feb edition is too late.  I wanted to work on a “About page” feature where we can add a “About page” fo...

Treat them the way you want to be treated

Published on January 21, 2024
Someone treated you badly.  You got hurt.  You felt it’s not acceptable.  — TIME FLIES — You got a chance to treat them the same way.  You treat them the same way to “teach a lesson” That’s a...

TIL about unaccent (PostgreSQL extension)

Published on January 16, 2024
“SQL unaccent is a PostgreSQL extension that removes accents (diacritic signs) from lexemes. It is a filtering dictionary that can be used to improve user experience and implement search in a user-...

First and last writing in 2023

Published on December 21, 2023
I did not write in 2023, well, at least not here. That does not surprise me, as my first written piece back in 2021 was titled I don't write. How many have I written each year since then? Let's se...

TIL Variable hoisting in ruby

Published on March 11, 2023
Although I knew about hoisting in javascript, I always explicitly declare nil while writing ruby and was under the impression it will give undefined otherwise. I might be still continue declaring ...

TIL in Ruby: `arity`

Published on October 09, 2022
“Returns the number of mandatory arguments. If the block is declared to take no arguments, returns 0. If the block is known to take exactly n arguments, returns n. If the block has optional argumen...

Life sucks.

Published on February 11, 2022
Life sucks.  Right from the start.  May be right after childhood.  Lucky if we happened to be around parents.  Many born with disease or no parents around.  There is nothing we can do about.  What...

No more domains for 2022

Published on January 23, 2022
This comes from the maker of HIGHSCORE.domains where you can show off how many domains you got. So please don't take it lightly 😁 “other me saying in my head why the hell are you including the we...

TIL how to colour console logs

Published on January 18, 2022
We can change the colour of log in console like this: console.log('%c hey red text', 'color: red') console.log('%c hey green text', 'color: green') [Screenshot of developer console]

Everyone needs to learn marketing

Published on July 16, 2021
Marketing is definitely something everyone needs to learn for sure.  Not in the sense of learning how to send cold emails and use all the fancy tools  😅  but to actually learn how to convey the me...

Let it itch for a while

Published on July 16, 2021
I often find myself running into registering domain names and start yet another project. This isn't practical anymore. Now I have two major side projects and any new project I start won't get enou...

Why and how I built HIGHSCORE.domains

Published on June 30, 2021
My last post was about building side projects and I did it. Yes, built and launched a project. It's called HIGHSCORE.domains HIGHSCORE.domains is launched as a fun leaderboard to find out who owns...

I don't write

Published on March 23, 2021
“Originally posted in https://world.hey.com/rinas/i-don-t-write-dc86f911” Hey World 👋 I don't write much and yet here I am writing to the world. The few words I scribble on Twitter are the quot...