Birthday week.

Second birthday in lockdown.

Super busy with stuff.

Wish me luck.

I feel alive.

Crypto!!!!!

I got a new kid Katie. We are now 5. Me, Angela, Felicity, Amelie, and Katie.

I am now officially starting January of this year as an STTC Short Term Technical Consultant for UPPAF RESPOND, a USAID-funded grantee.

I got renewed twice this year as an HTC Highly Technical Consultant for the Philippines’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

I am still consulting as a part-time CTO, Simply put just trying to tie loose ends. Love our clients.

Trying to get into the crypto space. Have most of my savings in Crypto.

Part owner of a beginner-level Axie team. Grinding as a scholar with Felicity while searching for someone to help with their own scholarship.

It has been a hard couple of years.

I am still standing

I am still in despair. I feel as if I lost a dear friend. as an introvert I’ve always been drawn to quiet workers such as PNoy and Mar.

2009 was about two years into my career. I was actively interviewing for positions overseas. I wanted to get out as I felt then as I now feel once again that the Philippines, that Filipinos are a cursed people.

PNoy made me stay. Here was a person who was always being asked to serve, to do more. How can someone who has benefitted so much (PSHS/UP) from the country abandon her now when it was so very easy to do so.

I have only regretted my decision during the genocidal president’s term.

I must now always remind myself. The Filipino is worth dying for, the Filipino is worth living for, the Filipino is worth fighting for.

RIP and Salamat PNoy.

Analysis and Opinion By Irineo B. R. Salazar Forget all I wrote about the Philippines in this blog. Watch Trese to get what haunts the country. While my writings touch the auditory aspect of our beings and I have looked at things with logic, Trese goes deeper by touching our feelings, showing us pictures and telling a compelling story. LOOKING DEEPER […]

Trese and today’s haunted Philippines

“To have global fans boosting our tourism, learning our cultures, studying our languages,” Josh says. “Just like in other countries, I can see our artists being able to evolve our industries, too.”

These are lofty goals for sure, but not at all impossible. In the three years since SB19 debuted, several Filipino idol groups have emerged and are showing great promise such as 1st.One, Alamat, BGYO and Bini among others. Notably, Alamat has members from different Filipino ethnicities who sing and rap in their own languages: Tagalog, Kapampangan, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Waray, and Bisaya.

Like SB19, P-pop boy group 1st.One, whose Filipino-Korean member Jayson was discovered after appearing on “Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho,” was formed by a Korean management agency. They underwent idol training for two years prior to their debut, during which time they also won two international dance competitions and performed alongside the biggest K-pop idols at the 2020 Seoul Music Awards.

One might think this could lead to a toxic rivalry common among entertainment fandoms; refreshingly, on the comments section of 1st.One’s debut single “You Are The One” are messages of encouragement from A’TIN. SB19 has raised the bar so high for P-pop, they say, and this is the result. Others mention how happy “Pinuno” must be that groups like 1st.One are doing well, since this is his vision.

Source: SB19 Gears Up For World Domination | Cover Stories | GMA News Online

Analysis and Opinion By Irineo B. R. Salazar Twenty Years Ago 20 years ago, Filipinos massed along EDSA again, nearly 15 years after they had gathered on that avenue to oust a dictator. This time it was to oust a populist who later became Mayor of Manila. Erap or Joseph Estrada was Mayor of San […]

Twenty Years Ago

Was about to sleep. Seeing American Democracy like this moves me to tears. Need to walk.

The three components of independent-mindedness work in concert: fastidiousness about truth and resistance to being told what to think leave space in your brain, and curiosity finds new ideas to fill it.

Interestingly, the three components can substitute for one another in much the same way muscles can. If you’re sufficiently fastidious about truth, you don’t need to be as resistant to being told what to think, because fastidiousness alone will create sufficient gaps in your knowledge. And either one can compensate for curiosity, because if you create enough space in your brain, your discomfort at the resulting vacuum will add force to your curiosity. Or curiosity can compensate for them: if you’re sufficiently curious, you don’t need to clear space in your brain, because the new ideas you discover will push out the conventional ones you acquired by default.

http://paulgraham.com/think.html

A Programmer’s Guide to Compliance Regulations

An important part of the planning phase of the software development life cycle is understanding what regulations will apply to your software. If you are an independent programmer looking to build your own startup, you need to understand these regulations so you can avoid heavy fines, criminal lawsuits, or a potential suspension of your business.

If you work for a company, this will help you to build applications that are compliant by design. This way, you and your supervisors will save a significant amount of time, because you won’t have to go back and make as many changes to your first version of the application.

Remember, you are working as part of a business, so having an understanding of the business requirements of the software you write will help make you a more valuable programmer. Depending on where in the world you are, where your customers are, and the industry that your application will be used in, this will affect the regulations that govern how your application must handle consumer information.

Source: A Programmer’s Guide to Compliance Regulations – Simple Programmer