Got an offer for a UI/UX Designer role in Bangsar South, salary is decent but im worried about the team size and project scope. Spent the Malaysia Day long weekend just thinking about it. I've got three years experience…
Just got two developer offers after convocation and im really stuck on which one to take. The money is different but also the tech stacks are so far apart, im really confused. Offer A is from a big MNC in Cyberjaya, sol…
I've been in consulting for 3 years and talk to Malaysian companies about technology regularly. Here's my honest read on where AI actually is versus where the headlines suggest. Genuine adoption: - Customer service chat…
Not everyone has a company MacBook Pro. Here's how to set up a solid dev environment when you're working with what you have. For low-spec Windows machines: WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is genuinely good now. Run U…
Spent 3 months prepping for tech interviews this year. Here's what I actually used and whether it was worth it. LeetCode: The standard. The problem set is comprehensive, the discussion forum is excellent for understandi…
After a year of trying almost every AI tool that gets posted about, here's what stayed in my actual workflow. Claude / ChatGPT for drafting: First drafts of documents, emails, proposals. Not for final copy, for breaking…
Based on actual Malaysian job postings I scraped and manual searching over 3 months. React: Dominates. Roughly 65-70% of frontend roles in Malaysia that specify a framework require or prefer React. If you're learning fr…
Genuinely curious about the distribution. In my experience: Microsoft Teams: Dominant in GLCs, government-linked, and traditional corporates. Often because Microsoft 365 is already the company suite and Teams comes bund…
Cleaned up my extension list and kept only what I actually use daily. Sharing the list. For all developers: - uBlock Origin: ad and tracker blocking, also speeds up browsing significantly - Wappalyzer: identifies tech s…
Used all three seriously for coding tasks. Here's where each actually wins. GitHub Copilot: Best for inline completion and boilerplate generation in the editor. The contextual awareness of your actual codebase is better…
As someone who works with clients in multiple countries and occasionally needs to access geo-restricted tools, I've tried a few. Here's the practical breakdown. What a VPN actually helps with for remote workers: - Acces…
I'm not a developer but I've automated 4 hours of my weekly work with Python. Here's what I built and how I learned. What I automated: 1. A report that pulled data from 3 Excel files, combined them, and generated a form…
We're a team of 6 engineers at a Malaysian fintech. Here's what our CI/CD setup looks like after two years of iteration. What we use: - GitHub Actions for CI (free tier covers most of our needs) - Docker for containeris…
Audited my subscriptions last year and made some cuts. Here's what I replaced and with what. Replaced Notion (RM40/month) → Obsidian (free) + Logseq (free) For personal knowledge management, open source is genuinely bet…
Been watching teams adopt and abandon tools for 4 years. Here's my pattern recognition. Notion: Teams adopt it enthusiastically, build elaborate systems, then slowly abandon individual sections until it becomes a docume…
Asked around in my network of Malaysian tech leads and engineers. Here's the aggregated picture. AWS: Most common, by far. The default choice for most Malaysian tech companies. ap-southeast-1 (Singapore) has excellent c…
After years of accumulation and pruning, here's what actually runs on my machine every workday. Terminal: Wezterm + Fish shell + Starship prompt. Fast, configurable, doesn't get in the way. Editor: Neovim for most thin…
Started using Obsidian for personal notes and it's evolved into something more structured. Sharing what works. Folder structure I landed on: - /Daily, one note per working day with tasks, meeting notes, decisions - /Pro…
Figma's pricing changes have pushed a lot of small teams to explore alternatives. Here's what I've actually tested. Penpot: Open source, self-hostable, free. The closest to Figma in terms of feature set. Not quite at pa…
Sharing my config because I've been asked enough times that this is faster. Terminal emulator: Ghostty (fast, GPU-accelerated, has a proper config file) Shell: Fish, auto-suggestions, syntax highlighting, and abbreviat…
Tool threads written by people who have actually used the thing for more than a week. Comparisons like Notion versus Obsidian for personal knowledge management, project management tools that survive a real team, AI tools that genuinely save time versus those that add a review step, and which subscriptions are worth paying for out of your own pocket. Because the posts come from working professionals rather than reviewers, they tend to cover the parts that only show up later — migration pain, pricing changes, and what broke at scale.