About Me
Hey! My name is Jerry and I'm currently a Software Engineer in Singapore where my primary focus is DevEx.
By day, I use Go to build awesome stuff at work. By night, I can be found scraping the web or tinkering with random tiny projects with Python or NodeJS.
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Building stuff
I love dabbling with random side projects. Probably like you, I get a thrill from bringing silly ideas and unlikely follies to life.
At the moment, I'm running Tournacat. In the past, I made a craft beer search engine, which failed by my own definition.
Here are some random (useless) stuff that I've made over the years that are still alive on the web today:
- Spaceflight news
- My very own URL shortener
- Pastebin clone
- Search for MICHELIN restaurants
- A map of Starbucks Latte prices in Singapore
- Search for TV information over public API using HTMX
- Sudoku solver
- GraphQL wrapper over a REST Covid19 API
As you might already be able to tell, I'm a huge fan of static sites as they are fast and very easy to host. Hosting and running static sites requires much less effort than a real server.
My writings
My opinions are my own.
I love explaining stuff in plain language. Instead of focusing on the Whats and Hows, I tend to focus more on the Whens and Whys.
Usually, I write about software engineering or some inconsequential tiny projects that I worked on. But really, I haven't settled on any niche.
Here are my most-read writings in no particular order as of 20 August 2023:
- I Built My Own TinyURL. Here's How I Did It
- JWT vs Cookie: Why Comparing the Two Is Misleading
- Stop Using Exceptions Like This in Python
- Tuples vs. Lists vs. Sets in Python
- How To Write Clean Code in Python
Get In Touch
If you're reading this, I'm happy to receive emails or DMs from you about anything!