I have a friend of mine who began his exploration of machine learning in Python a few months back. Excited to help him out and curious as to where he is in his familiarity in statistics and algorithms (See mental model: the Forest), we hopped on a call and discussed a few things. As we […]
Category: Tech
Microservices
The past few months have been quite an exciting adventure for me in software development. I experienced new technologies at different levels of the tech stack. Application Development In application development, I learned Go. Although really fascinating, I struggled a bit with the tooling provided (gopls is still at version 0.5.2 as of right now). […]
Typescript Module aliases and pkg
Lars Wächter has a great article on how to implement module aliases on Typescript, thus improving your code from looking something like this: Into something that can look like this: Fantastic! However, I encountered an issue when using the zeit/pkg packaging tool, which bundles your node js application into a single executable file. The problem […]
RapidPass
These past three months have been an extremely amazing ride. Let me share my story of how I was able to participate in a national government project. Three months (and nearly a thousand commits later) I find myself in a community of spectacularly talented and good people, a fantastically passionate community of Filipinos (hat tip […]
DotA 2 to Google Calendar
I’ve been playing a lot of DotA 2 lately! I’ve been learning how to play offlane, and am currently experimenting with Mars. A few months back, I wrote up a simple typescript project that hooks up my games fetched from OpenDota API and transfers them to my Google Calendar as calendar entries. What it looks […]
Entropy (Information Theory)
Initially written as a Tweet, but to-be-expounded on this blog post. When the data source produces a low-probability value (i.e., when a low-probability event occurs), the event carries more “information” than when the data source produces a high-probability value. Wiki on Entropy. Information Theory by Claude Shannon. In the context of relationships This translates to […]
node-gyp issues in Windows
I recently encountered issues with node-gyp on my Windows machine, which prevented me from doing any productive typescript/node development. It gave out the following error message: node-gyp is a low level module dependency used by npm used for compiling native addon modules for Node.js. Generally, most node developers don’t really encounter it, until this issue […]
Cordova Build Failure
The other day while I was hacking away on this Ionic-Angular project for work. I was building my android project: But I encountered the following unusual error at the end of the build: … BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 9s 45 actionable tasks: 5 executed, 40 up-to-date Command finished with error code 0: /Users/darrenkarlsapalo/git/work/easy-cash/platforms/android/gradlew cdvBuildDebug,-b,/Users/darrenkarlsapalo/git/work/easy-cash/platforms/android/build.gradle Built the […]
Automated NLP parser in Facebook Group Conversations
Prompt I am part of a group of volunteers in our local church that reads scripture during mass service. Sometimes, volunteers are unavailable and post that they will not be able to attend their scheduled assignments. These volunteers message within a private group chat in Facebook informing the group that they will not be able […]