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Self-ImprovementJul 15, 2026

The CS Student Trap (that applies to life too!)

by Albert Tan

So, I’m sure we have all been there before, a new idea or maybe something interesting has piqued your interest. You had dived as deep as you could and feel ready to tackle the challenge. The first day? Amazing. The second and third? Meh. And then it all goes downhill from here. I want to note that this is solely my opinion and is not backed by science at all. All vibes! Skip to the end for a summary table of what I tried, and which was most effective. The main idea of this article is procrast

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UncategorizedJun 10, 2026

Why trying Arch Linux at least once will change your life

by Havyn Liew

DISCLAIMER: Since using Arch Linux or any Linux as a home system is a whole shift of what you are used to, not every little thing can be covered in this post, so do approach this with a learning mindset and to not be discouraged when you cannot find the answer. Society pictures failure as a fear, to fail is the path to learning, and the path to learn is success.- Havyn Liew The first time i touched Linux was in 2022 and i fell in love. It was the first time i felt like i had infinite power on

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System DesignMay 11, 2026

Creating a Simple Incident Reporting System using RabbitMQ

by Audy Wallace Siegle

When you have multiple concurrent services communicate with each other, they often rely on one another to complete requests. This may work for small and stable environments but, it becomes fragile at scale. A sudden surge in traffic or an unexpected service failure can result in system wide outages. This is where RabbitMQ comes to help. RabbitMQ is an open-source message broker and streamer that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP). To put in simply, it is a software servic

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