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Calendar Choices

I have been researching some calendar services recently; Apple Calendar sync with Google Calendar serves me well. Still, while I am in the optimization process, I try to look for something new and shining to see if I miss out on anything. My workflow uses Todoist to manage all my

New Things I Try 2023

New Things I Try February 2023

This is another belated post but a new topic I would like to explore every month: record some of the latest applications or web services I try. Bento - a pretty bio link/portfolio site builder https://bento.me/ I use it to build my portfolio and love the concept and

Maker Journal 2023

Maker Journal February 2023

I didn't have much to say for January since I m still pretty much enjoy the festival holidays and the welcome of my newborn. However, February marked the month I started my engine to build things. One of the leading projects I want to complete before building products

Maker Journal 2022

What I did in 2022!

It's been a while since my last post; after my newborn arrival in December, following up with Lunar New Year Break starting in mid-January, I didn't have much time to write a 2022 review post. Finally, after everything is over, on the last day of

Maker Journal 2022

Maker Journal December 2022

I was reticent in December. In the first half of December, I tried my best to rushing finish any outstanding tasks and prayed that my "mini" one wouldn't pop too early. She behaved and waited until her daddy finished all his work and her brother finished

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Maker Journal November 2022

November is a mixed-feeling month; there are both good and bad things happening; overall, I m still optimistic for November. I m pretty weak after getting COVID in October; I don't feel recovered and keep having lousy headaches and fever out of nowhere, which badly affected my

Maker Journal 2022

Maker Journal October 2022

October is kind of low productivity for me; I want to build something initially, but lots of things happen, and in the end, I m rushing to finish my Hacktoberfest around the month's end. So what happened in October is * I went for a staycation with my family

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My First Appwrite Function

Yesterday I shared how to run your Appwrite function on PHP runtime. Today, I will share the first Appwrite function I wrote in PHP. The function I will build is to save the QR code image returned by Appwrite Avatar API and upload it into Appwrite Storage. Let's

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Everything you need to know to get Appwrite Functions works on PHP runtime

It took me a few days to figure out how to get the Function feature to work on Appwrite; I almost gave up and looked for some help on Appwrite Github Discussion, but before the Appwrite Maintainer zoomed into my issue, I found out what went wrong. Let me share

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Integrate Retool Mobile with Appwrite

I built a demo app to integrate Retool Mobile with Appwrite. The demo shows how to authenticate with Appwrite and generate a QR code with the user id. Retool is a popular tool for fast building internal tools. Retool Mobile is one of the services still in beta testing that

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Things to do after Setup Appwrite on Digital Ocean

I found that many articles talk about how easy to set up Appwrite on Digital Ocean because of the one-click installer, but none of these articles shares the things to do after you install Appwrite. So I am going to share some of my findings today. Setup domain for

Maker Journal 2022

Maker Journal September 2022

September is one of the poor performance months for my product work; the main reason is my freelance work has swarmed me. In the end, I managed to clear 90% of my freelance but didn't have much progress in products. I have to build a diet application with

Maker Journal 2022

Maker Journal August 2022

I m continue making progress in August, I won't say there are big jumps in productivity, but I can see I m moving slowly toward my target. I accompanied my wife for an outstation meeting in early August to kill the boredom of waiting for her in the

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Readr #1

Readr is one of my 2022 product ideas. For example, I get lots of emails for different notifications; I would like to turn these email notifications into webhooks and receive them with a mobile app. I kickstarted the Readr concept during my product weekend #3; it started with this draft

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Product Weekend #3

I was away last week to send my wife to another state for some course; while having some personal time without the need to take care of the kids during the weekend, I decided to have product weekend #3 Results of my Product Weekend include I manage to build a

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Adalo Custom Component - CSV Export

I built Adalo Custom Component for living on Adalomatic; starting today, I will share some of the new components that I created and share how to use these components. The Issues Currently, there is no way for users to download the database collection as a CSV file. However, one of

Maker Journal 2022

Maker Journal July 2022

The past July is pretty meaningful to me; after not making much progress for the first half of 2022, I finally kickstarted my engine to start doing product work. My quarter three goals are pretty simple, finding another new product revenue on top of what I currently have, and July

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Product Weekend #2

I managed to have some free time last week; it will be another long weekend, so that I will have some time for myself from Saturday to Monday. That’s why I decided it was time for Product Weekend the second time. Results of my Product Weekend include 🚀 build one

Maker Journal 2022

Maker Journal June 2022

I didn't set any goals for June because of overwhelmed by my freelance work; that's why I decided to take a break and go for a goal-less month. I have some minor progress on one of my products. Adalomatic My Adalo Component store official split

Maker Journal 2022

Maker Journal May 2022

I have pretty ambitious goals at the beginning of May. I thought that was my birthday month; I should be all in to build, but I was wrong, and I have failed. I failed to start my #nocode monthly challenge, and I m not sure if I continue at the

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Product Weekend #1

For the past few days, I put aside all my freelance work and tried to focus on three things for my products while celebrating my 42 birthday. The results are not so bad; I didn't complete all my goals, I learned something about the hard limit, and it

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May Monthly Goal 2022

I want to kickstart May, my birthday month, to reboot my build engine. So I am going to build quite a few things starting this month. The primary goal is I m going to build some new ideas and rebuild some of my existing products with no-code tools for

Maker Journal 2022

Maker Journal Apr 2022

April is the beginning of Quarter 2 of 2022; after wasting the whole quarter 1, I m trying to get myself back on track. I try to focus on three things for April, but the results are "ok but can be better". Updating, Testing and Building Updating ✅ - I

Maker Journal 2022

Maker Journal Mar 2022

March is full of surprised. Nope, the miracle didn't happen. I lost my daily writing streak and decided to take a break. I didn't complete anything I wished to achieve. I only focused on finishing my freelance project and finally launched it in time. The only

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April Monthly Goal 2022

I just attended my father in law funeral, it doesn't look like a good start for Apr. I want to run away from the useless first quarter of 2022. So my plan to start to gain back my product productivity is to focus on three things. Updating, Testing