About me
Hi there! Welcome to my home page. I'm a computer geek living in Singapore. When I'm not with a computer, I like to read, do some sports and spend time with my wife + family.
My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Kurt Vonnegut.
I'm currently I used to be using an old thinkpad x200 with Arch Linux. I usually use a combination of urxvt, tmux, xmonad and emacs in my work. However I tend to prefer vim on the shell as they start up faster.
I'm now on a Macbook Pro as my old Thinkpad has gone *kaput*. My feelings echo that of antirez. Linux is still better for coding. I miss xmonad. I'll be back on linux some day.
I volunteer regularly at Minds Youth Group. Do join me and bring some shine to the lives of the less priviliged =)
I'm also a big football fan of Manchester United.
As you can see, I don't have a lot of hair. If you're losing your hair(like me), shave it off. Life is too short to be spent fretting about how thin your hair is. Stop hiding! Your hair is not going to come back. Say no to rugs, drugs and plugs =)
Professional work
I code for a living. Most of my professional work is done in Ruby, the Rails web framework, server side Javascript Node.js and Javascript MVC framework Backbone.js.
I'm what they call a devops. I have production experiences with deployment tools like Chef, and cloud hosts like AWS, Rackspace and other VPS.
I've contributed to open source. Most of them can be found on my Github profile.
I'm also the author of SmugFTP. SmugFTP is an uploader for Smugmug. It's written in Node.js and was previously hosted on Amazon AWS. It's a hobby project done in my spare time.
Besides SmugFTP, I also have another project Notifymode. Notifymode does performance instrumentation for Node.js apps. It's also another hobby project.
I'm an independent developer available for hire.