Two months ago I left the company which I co-founded 13 years back. Here are some of my takeaways after 13 years as its CTO.

In the [previous article][prev], I wrote about my attempt at improving my pitches. I left off from that piece with the promise of a formula that can improve the quality of your slide decks immediately.

The answer: storytelling.

I’m always looking for ways to improve my presentations. Oftentimes, I only get one chance to get my point across and I want to make every such opportunity count.

Several months back I was addicted to Twitter. Any time I can pull out my phone, I would be checking my Twitter feed.

It's a time waster. Prolific YouTuber Dr Derek Muller describes it as a part of the distraction economy.

I've been writing JavaScript for the past 10 years for my work, and there are still things in the language that trips me up. A very good example is on binding.

Given the setup below, I would have been a little hesitant as to what the right answer is.

About a year ago, I bought my wife and I a new phone for each of us. For her it was a Galaxy Note 5. For me, I got a LG G4.

At that point in time, the G4 was considered slightly below par compared to the Note 5, in terms of price and branding. I had aimed for a V10 but there was completely no news about it being available in Singapore.

Despite being a flagship phone for Samsung, there were plenty of reasons for not choosing the Note 5 then - the stylus problem, the non-removable battery and the lack of external storage. I had no regrets not selecting the Note 5.

So I've gotten around to installing Disqus for this blog. This post is just a test post for testing the commenting system.

(2023 February note: Disqus was not enabled after the switch to Docusaurus)

I've recently had the opportunity to work with some remote teams to collaborate on a project. One question that cropped up was how do I pass the project specific changes to the remote team members without committing the credentials to the repository.

I was recently posed with a question on how to run Adobe Flash files in the browser. As far as I know, you can write a simple HTML page to embed the Flash file (SWF) in a page and load in the browser (http://superuser.com/questions/116352/how-can-i-play-an-swf-file-using-google-chrome). I also recall that any decent browser would be able to load the SWF file as-is without having to do anything extra.

However, loading the SWF file in Chrome on Linux does not work; loading the file causes Chrome to prompt the user to download it - definitely not the reaction I was hoping from the browser. Trying to solve this problem lead to learn a new thing about MIME types in Linux.

Some time back when researching for Backbone JS stuff (I can't remember for what now), I encountered this post Lessons learned while working with Backbone.js.

This post was written a few years back, but I was still able to glean some gems from it. Specifically, the section "Simplified Object Copying" was something that could be applied on plain vanilla JavaScript.