Hello, world. Building in public.

Why this site exists: small products, engineering notes, and a documented trading-strategy revival.

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Hello, world. For years I have built things quietly — shipped them to an audience of one, closed the laptop, and moved on to the next thing. That finally felt like the wrong default, so I put a proper home on my own name. Consider this post the site's first commit.

I am a software engineer based in Malaysia. By day I build real-time communication software at a telecommunications software company — the kind of work where a bug is measured in dropped calls, not console errors. Outside of that I ship freelance web work, build small products for myself, and maintain a long-running obsession with trading systems.

Why this site exists

Most of what I make never gets announced. It works, it solves the problem, and then it quietly disappears into a folder. This site is an attempt to change that: a public bench where work gets put down while it is still warm. Writing forces the kind of honesty that code review alone does not — if I cannot explain why something exists, it probably should not.

What to expect

  • Build logs for small products — planners, decision games, deal-hunting tools — written while the code is fresh, not after it is perfect.
  • Engineering notes on things I keep relearning: real-time systems, infrastructure hardening, and the occasional agent experiment.
  • A documented revival of a trading strategy I first wrote more than ten years ago — re-validated with modern tooling before it is trusted with anything real.

I will not promise a weekly essay; those promises die quietly, which is exactly what this site is supposed to prevent. The honest cadence is this: whenever something ships or breaks in an interesting way, I write it up within days. Small posts, kept small.

Build in public, ship small, write it down. That is the whole plan.
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