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Reading List: Week 1, March 2021

Interviewing your interviewer is a critical part of your career decision-making process. Think about your long-term plans and make sure the role you accept fits with that vision.
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Phone and Mouse

The Phone The year was 1998. The place, Taft Ave., Manila. Clad in plaid shirt and my khaki slacks were accentuated by a brick in the left side pocket. It was a Nokia pre-5110 model (similar to the one pictured below). I took it out of my pocket, extruded the antenna to gather some signal…

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Android vs. iOS: Context Menu

I’ve first used an iPhone and iPad before I experienced using an Android (particularly a meager Samsung Galaxy Y with Android 2.3). The very natural controls of Android were the static/consistent position of Back and its context menus (long pressing certain items particularly lists). Then I had to use iPhone again and kept on tapping…

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Of Oddness and Obsolescence – The Twilight Zone No. 153

The Brain Center at Whipple’s Technician (T): Mr. Whipple, have you looked around this place lately? Mr. Whipple (W): Looked around? T: The cafeteria, for example. It’s like a cave. Not a soul in there. Just a few vending machines and music coming thru a loud speaker. You walked around the parking lot? It’s a…

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Changing colors via selective color in Photoshop

Jaycelle requested me to change the color of her blouse from red to mustard. It’s easy with an app, that’s true. However, before all those algorithms and automations, there was a semi-manual way of doing it — using selective colors in Photoshop. Music: Tweakers by Brian Dys

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RE:Creation No. 3: Dorset Cereals

In this episode of RE:Creation, we’ll be recreating a cereal box in HTML and CSS. One thing I like about consumer product packaging is that almost everything is written there in that little space. It’s like a website in the palm of your hands at a grocery aisle (or at your breakfast table). First, let’s…

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Spotify 2020 Wrapped for Artists

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Sit back, put your feet up and enjoy the ride.

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Moving portraits

I admit, I am amazed by technology when it can bring photos to life. Decades ago, I scanned my paternal grandparents’ wedding portrait with the purpose of restoring it. It was scanned in four parts and the best restoration that I could do was stitch them together and remove some blemishes using Photoshop. I thought…

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Avaloq Philam Life

The first time I’ve been at Avaloq’s office at Philam Life building was during my second interview. I was impressed by the interior design of the pantry. There by the couch were some company brochures in the style of a newspaper. I took one home to familiarize myself with the new company that I was…

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Strapped for straps

It was more than 10 years ago since I bought a Swatch watch called Something New. It was tiny classic black and white watch that had a plastic strap that cost one-third of the watch’s original price (and it breaks every year, the strap). This is what really deterred me from buying from Swatch. Metal…