Opinions and Writings
Polar Beat update renders H7 useless
I've had a Polar H7 heart rate monitor for about a couple of years now. I've been using it with the Polar Beat app to monitor my calorie burn and to make sure I don't overexert myself when working out. I have just recently gotten back to being a bit more active after...
The messy economics of funding gaming
I believe it was former president of UP, Dr. Nemezo (a champion of free and open source software back in the early 2000s) who intimated that piracy is the third-world reaction to the absurd licensed software costs. I can't quite recall but it's in the same vein that...
Trash or post?
After finishing my monthly online cleanup of my sites and accounts, I noticed that it's been almost 10 years since I registered this domain. I've been blogging longer than that. Ever since I shifted away from online content development some 7 years back, I only found...
Re-education
While not many publicly know, I am no longer with any of my previous affiliations. I thought finally pursuing game development to continue my career would be one of my last churns and that I'd be able to stick around doing it for long. Turned out my stint became more...
Goodbye for now, Ma’am May
Paying tribute to friends and mentors who have passed never gets easier and yet I write another one now. I am greatly saddened by the passing of one of my mentors - Prof. May Flores. She passed on last Saturday after years of health problems. She will most likely be...
Hello, IT department…
Ah... The IT department where the verisimilitude of the IT Crowd hits home so well. Just read Tales from Tech Support on Reddit. But the inverse also applies. Howe many of us has been screwed over by bad IT departments. I've been with startups and small organizations...
Cambio
It's been three months since I've said my token goodbyes to some very good friends from my old work. I've finally quit the old job after spending nearly a decade associated with them. It seems like I'm well on my way dissociating myself from education too. It's been...
Aftermath
Nagising ako kahapon ng madaling araw. Tiningnan ko ang telepono at nakitang umaapaw ang Facebook at Twitter ng notifications. Puno ng posts at tweets mula sa mga kaibigan at dating propesor. Nasusunog ang Faculty Center at mukhang malubha. Tila matutupok at magiging...
Psychological safety
Google shared "The five keys to a successful Google team." I love reading these kinds of secret sauce that they claim make such organizations successful. Now, what's supposed to be done with these kinds of information is to process them, reflect, see what may apply to...