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Notes on software, useful tools, and things learned while building.

• December 21, 2025

  Terminal Setup for macOS: ZSH + Oh My Zsh

  ZSH setup with syntax highlighting, autosuggestions, and fuzzy history search.

  
• March 28, 2025

  My Journey to AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner: A Perfect Score

  My journey to achieving a perfect 1000/1000 score on the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam, with study resources and preparation tips.

  
• February 25, 2025

  From Callbacks to Async/Await in AWS Lambda

  A practical guide to modernizing AWS Lambda functions from callbacks to async/await in TypeScript, with code examples.

  
• June 17, 2024

  Fixing DnsNameResolverTimeoutException in Spring Boot

  Resolving DnsNameResolverTimeoutException in Spring Boot WebFlux by switching from Netty's DNS resolver to DefaultAddressResolverGroup.

  
• May 30, 2024

  Automatically Mute iPhone At Work

  Automate iPhone muting at work using Apple Shortcuts and Focus mode, with automatic volume restoration when leaving.

  
• February 6, 2024

  LeetCode Tree Visualizer

  A custom tree visualizer that overcomes LeetCode's native limitations, supporting large trees, long node text, and diff visualization.

  
• January 21, 2024

  Migrating from Vite to Next.js While Retaining Ant Design

  Migrating a Vite React app to Next.js with SSR while keeping Ant Design components using the App Router approach.

  
• December 17, 2023

  Notify After Command Finishes

  A simple bash script to get notified when long-running terminal commands finish with a persistent macOS dialog box.

  
• October 15, 2023

  Safari Web Apps

  Safari web apps on Mac let you turn websites like Fastmail and ChatGPT into standalone apps without third-party tools.