Writing
Notes on building, learning and growing as a software developer.
My Low Back Ability journey (an honest review)
Four years after back surgery, I hurt my back again. Here is how the Low Back Ability program went for me: what helped, what I missed, and who I think it is for.
My back surgery story
Four years ago I had back surgery. Most back problems don't need it. I was one of the "lucky" few who did.
Terminal Cheat Sheet
A collection of helpful terminal commands.
The Art of Under Promising and Over Delivering: Delivering Your Best Work
My name is Greg and I am a professional software engineer. Being a professional means not only are you good with what you do but you are consistently delivering high-quality…
Frappe ERPNext 14 — backup and restore
Backup a live site and restore in a local docker setup.
A faster Laravel Lazy Query Method
When working with big numbers of data in MySQL (10M+ records) or 300GB+ sized database tables, we often would reach for lazyById or lazy
Mock AnyArgs PHPUnit Test
Unit tests are indeed super helpful but sometimes it is challenging to build them. As much as possible we want to keep them focused and simple. In my case, I made a change to…
Two sides of a coin — active listening and delivering (thriving in a high growth start-up as an engineer)
ContactOut is a high-growth remote-first start-up company.
Senior Engineer at ContactOut
Our leadership team consists of Harvard University and London Business School alumni, who have previously built NASDAQ listed businesses. Our investors include 500 Startups and…
How to grow as a software developer
Tech state in 2021 and my personal approach to learning and growing in my career as a software developer.
Inheritance, Reward, Arrow
A child is God’s inheritance — in short, God puts the value in the child. As parents, that’s how we should look at our children.
November Wrap-up — Product Update
The team has been working hard to refine existing features and add ones that make the experience better and more efficient. Here are some key changes that you might like to…
VQC Platinum — Celebrate 20
December 7, 2015 Victory QC celebrated 20 years of God’s faithfulness. From a small group of faithful and hard-working people and now to thousands, gathering in GT Toyota and…
Unknown Territory (NI LabVIEW Training)
Last Nov 9–13, I took up Core 1 and Core 2 of LabVIEW offered by National Instruments held at Crimson Hotel, Alabang. There two are the basic courses of LabVIEW. These are also…
The Place I love The Most
A poem I wrote for Darla, and the story of how it found its way into a song.