Intentional practice helps us get better, no matter it’s basketball playing, painting or public speaking. This strategy applies to software engineering too. If we regularly explore new APIs, toolsets and tinker with them, we would get better at turning ideas into products efficiently. Experiments are essential and fun… TwinCam is…

1,500,000,000 — The number of people who live with hearing loss in the world. That’s nearly 20% of global population! (source: who.int) I recently experimented with Apple’s Sound Classification API and the results are pretty promising on the Apple Watch. So, I decided to release the BuzzWatch app and the…

Tech workers operate in a turbulent environment. Platform and consumer expectation changes so rapidly that it requires a lot of energy to maintain your products’ position in the marketplace. If you are in a leadership position, it’s even harder because you are accountable for the aggregate outcome of your team…

It all started with discussions with the amazing folks at VaccineHunters.ca on Discord. Back in May 2021, it was the early days of the availability of mRNA vaccines. Everyone was looking forward to having some form of protection, but the booking systems were all over the places and information were…

Think of your technology systems as a car: a tool that your company’s leaders use to get to their destination. When designing and building this car, critical elements must receive sufficient focus. Here is my Top 5 list. The engine and the drivetrain: The operating platform must be reliable and…

If you drive in North America or Europe, you often have to face this simple tradeoff: Time Savings vs. Toll Charges. The decision is actually not an easy one. …

I was curious to find out. Is upstart Mapbox just as good or better? Has Apple Maps improved sufficiently? What about the MapQuest which I haven’t explored in a while? Fortunately, all of them offer their routing engines as APIs. …

For seniors, smartphones can be a source of headaches. The text are tiny (even on large screen models), its touch interface requires a lot of dexterity and typing on the soft keyboard can be difficult. It gets harder if your first language is not English. As a result, paying bills…

Developers and testers depend on a lot of infrastructure (from Active Directory, VPN, stable/secure/compliant environments) to do their magic. There are a few small, but not-so-obvious things that infrastructure teams can do to make their dev/test teams daily work easier. Overview diagrams and description of add-ons we use on top…