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Oct 7, 2022

Ep.31 — Helping the hearing impaired using Apple Watch’s ML capabilities

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…

Apple Watch

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Ep.31 — Helping the hearing impaired using Apple Watch’s ML capabilities
Ep.31 — Helping the hearing impaired using Apple Watch’s ML capabilities
Apple Watch

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Apr 13, 2022

The super-power of a cohesive and balanced team

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…

Teamwork

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The super-power of a cohesive and balanced team
The super-power of a cohesive and balanced team
Teamwork

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Feb 10, 2022

Episode 30— Unexpected learnings from building vaccine-ontario.ca with fellow volunteers

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…

Volunteering

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Episode 30— Unexpected learnings from building vaccine-ontario.ca with fellow volunteers
Episode 30— Unexpected learnings from building vaccine-ontario.ca with fellow volunteers
Volunteering

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Sep 15, 2021

Top 5 areas where senior architects can make the biggest difference

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…

Architecture

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Top 5 areas where senior architects can make the biggest difference
Top 5 areas where senior architects can make the biggest difference
Architecture

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Apr 1, 2021

Ep. 29 — Should you take that toll road to save time?

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. …

Maps

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Ep. 29 — Should I take that toll road to save time?
Ep. 29 — Should I take that toll road to save time?
Maps

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Mar 8, 2021

Ep. 28 — Is Google Maps still offering me the best route?

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. …

Maps

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Ep 28 — Is Google Maps still offering me the best route?
Ep 28 — Is Google Maps still offering me the best route?
Maps

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Feb 26, 2021

Ep. 27 — How to bring the web to our elders?

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…

Accessibility

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Ep. 27 — How to bring the web to our elders?
Ep. 27 — How to bring the web to our elders?
Accessibility

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Feb 13, 2021

Ep. 26 — Small things infrastructure teams can do to enhance developers’ efficiency and even their general well-being at work

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…

DevOps

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Ep. 26 — Small things infrastructure teams can do to enhance developers’ efficiency and even their…
Ep. 26 — Small things infrastructure teams can do to enhance developers’ efficiency and even their…
DevOps

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Jan 24, 2021

Ep. 25 — Your code can affect many people’s lives, not just your end-users’

There are a few simple things you can do before that final commit to make your code more friendly to everyone. a) Your fellow engineers (and successors who you may never meet) will read the source, digest the change history, fix bugs and delete chunks of it gingerly in the…

DevOps

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Your code can affect many people’s lives, not just your end-users’
Your code can affect many people’s lives, not just your end-users’
DevOps

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Aug 17, 2020

Ep.24 — Open source, giving back and trip simulation in Xcode iOS simulator

I am particularly encouraged by tech giants like Microsoft (who has 3500+ open-source repos on Github) and Google who continue to embrace the open source ideals and give back to the community as they invent their next big things. Did a little giveback myself and open-sourced a Trip Simulator to…

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Billy Lo

Billy Lo

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I enjoy learning, creative engineering & reading. Evergreen-labs.com, Vaccine-Ontario.ca, TravelShoppingBuddy.com, Sidekick-app.com, ReportMyTest.ca

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