Here’s a neat problem I ran into while trying to animate things on Android. I wanted to animate moving a View from one place to another. On top of that, I also wanted to change the size of the View by scaling it. Animation Involving Just Translation (Moving) A pure translation animation like the image above is simple. To know …

pg says in his essay that “Reading and experience train your model of the world.” I already read that essay once before and agree with what was said. I had some vague agreement or feeling about how sometimes experience allows one to better understand something that was said or written. That was the extend of it the last time I …

“You can be who you want to be.” We seem to tell that to little kids. We ask them what they dream of becoming when they grow up. But you know, we’re hypocrites for asking them that if we ourselves don’t keep on asking ourselves the same question. In today’s society, it certainly seems like we’re hypocrites. How many people …

I just might convert to using Emacs + Evil after using Vim for ages. I recently learned about Spacemacs while reading stuff on Hacker News. Spacemacs puts together a nice Emacs package already set up for Vim users to feel pretty comfortable. Evil mode looked interesting to me because I much prefer Vim’s editing method than a bunch of C-x …

At Kash we want to be notified of things that happen in our logs. After surveying what’s out there, I decided to give Heka a try. Heka is written in Go by people at Mozilla. I am really impressed with how well thought out the design is and how extensible it is. You can plug parts into the processing via …

Introduction I just finished converting my blog to run on Docker and sit on top of CoreOS. Since it’s my blog and I don’t actually want to spend money on a cluster of VMs, I use just a single server (single instance/droplet) of CoreOS. Below is a list of steps on how to do the same on DigitalOcean. I took …

This week we announced the general availability of the Kash system and our $2 million seed round. Coverage: VentureBeat Reuters PE Hub PYMNTS Retail Touch Points Loyalty Payments FinSMEs M & A Navigator …

At Kash, we use BitTorrent Sync along with the command line utility pass to share passwords among team members. We already use OpenPGP for secure emails, so everyone had their PGP key generated already. Currently the only none coder person is Kaz, but he has this setup going as well. Step 1: Get PGP Key Your first step is to …

When I was thinking about starting a startup, I thought about figuring out what other professions are struggling with, then see if there’s a technology solution to that. It seems that my journey took a rather roundabout way to finally learn what local retailer’s biggest pain point is. Through all of our previous product executions, we learned and talked to …

2 years ago around this time, I was still working at Well.ca. Things were going well and I was good at my job. It was also around that time when I was making a huge decision. A decision that unexpectedly led me to Y Combinator couple years later. Lots of Sleepless Nights I was wrestling with a challenge so scary …