Archives

All the articles I've archived.

2025 11
October 1
September 4
August 4

  • DHH interview

    A 6-hour interview on coding, AI, learning, and life. 6! Hours!!

  • You can just do things (or, new blog engine!)

    How AI tools helped me migrate from WordPress to Astro and completely rebuild my personal website in 3 days.

  • Warped

    A surprising and delightful experience with a terminal

  • Application for professional slopper

    🔥 It’s not just fascination — it’s an obsession. 🔥 Lately, I’ve been on a journey (yes, a journey 🚀) to write like AI. Not just write with it — ...

July 1

  • Sibeh awesome! Committed!

    Since my last post, I've settled on Claude Code for AI coding. Pedagogical questions aside, I seriously have not had this much fun playing with new te...

March 1

  • Early vibe coding thoughts

    Some thoughts on coding with AI (or, that awful, awful name, \\"vibe coding\\"):It's my kid's PSLE year*, and I got bored of reading spelling words to him...

2024 4
December 1

  • One Million Checkboxes

    In June, a programmer released a web-based mini-game that allowed users to check or uncheck any of 1,000,000 checkboxes — and when they did, it changed for everyone viewing the site simultaneously.

September 1

  • Happy Teachers' Day

    Happy Teachers’ Day to:My wife, who every day, brings all her primary school teacher experience to bear for our kids’ education, especially in Chinese...

June 1

  • Code in Place

    This week, I finished my final weekly volunteer session with my Code in Place section for 2024. Code in Place is a free online introductory programmin...

January 1

  • A moving story*

    My company, Tinkertanker, is moving from our Bukit Merah office of 5 years over to Jalan Pemimpin. It's our fourth real office after we moved out of a study.

2020 1
January 1

  • 2020 Vision

    I waited years to make this stupid pun (as did the copyright holders, apparently). Happy new year! Drawn on an 11” Pad Pro with Procreate.

2019 3
February 1

  • Determination to Learn

    About a year ago, Daniel, a 19-year-old New Zealander, gave me a call, and asked if he could just come by our office and hang out and learn things qui...

January 2

  • Bird Box Challenge

    Kind of. Drawn with Procreate on an (old) iPad Pro with an (old) Apple Pencil.

  • Fries Robot

    I've been promising Kiddo 1 I'd draw his requests whenever he finishes his home learning. Here's one.

2017 1
April 1

  • What's a Tinkertanker

    Republished from Medium. We started Tinkertanker in 2011, and haven't written much about the company and what we do. As a result, we now regula...

2015 1
December 1
2014 1
March 1
2013 1
January 1