Choon-Siang Lai articles - 38 total
The Pygame Framework I Didn’t Plan: Building Tic-Tac-Toe with Asyncio and Events
Over the last weekend, I spent some time mucking around with Pygame. Despite facing some challenges...
My Pygame Evolution: Embracing Asyncio and Immutability for Scalable Design
Maintaining a blog is a lot of work, especially when it comes to finding new ideas. Over the weekend,...
From Dotfile Hacks to Open Source: My Development Environment Evolution
Let’s talk about setting up a development machine for work today. If there is one thing techies love...
Beyond Hardcoding: My Breakthrough in Testable Parallel Python
Last week, we talked about removing hardcoded synchronization primitives. The refactoring was...
Telegram Chatbot’s Evolution: Decoupling Parallel Python’s Shared State for Clarity
After building the intro animation last week,,) I finally took the time to make a video based on the...
Code Rain’s Revelation: Embracing Existence Before Perfection
I would like to start this article by thanking the editorial team of JavaScript in Plain English for...
The Unchaining: My Personal Journey Graduating from jQuery to Modern JavaScript
When I was building a quick frontend to the LLM game, I used jQuery to quickly whip out a prototype....
Dao of Functional Programming (Chapter 1: Clean State)
This would be an irregular series of posts on my new attempt to learn Category Theory. This time, it...
Vibe-Coding, Storytelling, and LLMs: A Collaborative Approach
I probably mentioned this before, the growing count of articles here calms my mind in the midst of my...
The Quest Continues: Porting the Word Game With AsyncSSH
Last week, we reimplemented our 20-questions variant, and it received quite a bit of attention. So...
Leveling Up LLM Game Development with DSPy
After completing the series on asynchronous programming, I needed some time off to deal with the...
Concurrency vs. Parallelism: Achieving Scalability with ProcessPoolExecutor
In our previous exploration, we dove deep into AsyncIO by writing a task scheduler. We discovered how...
AsyncIO Task Management: A Hands-On Scheduler Project
We discussed Awaitables last week. The article covered coroutines, tasks and futures as well as a...
Understanding Awaitables: Coroutines, Tasks, and Futures in Python
Previously, we explored chatbot building with AsyncIO. As I am committing to publish one article a...
A Love Story in Code: Building My Self-Hosted Photo Album
I am almost one year into my current relationship. It is hard to believe how fast time flies, until I...
The Versatility of __call__: A Python Developer’s Secret Weapon
While reviewing the code in my current chatbot project, I discovered asyncio.to_thread accepts...
How to write an AsyncIO Telegram bot in Python
Last week, we discussed a quick weekend project on building a word game. That project was sparked by...
I built a word guessing game with LLM
After a period of regrouping, I resumed my quest for a new job or project. While sourcing ideas from...
Hair dryers have standards, why not software? A call for Rights by Design.
We can plug and use electrical appliances without fear, thanks to the existence of SIRIM...
Beyond the Code: A Lunar New Year Reflection on Career, Recovery, and New Beginnings
The lunar new year celebration just concluded yesterday. My family and I went to the temple to offer...
Applying Cramer’s Rule for Advent of Code 2024, day 13
Day 13 is relatively easy, especially if you’re comfortable with math. I originally started with a...
Finally, an application for my FSM library! Advent of Code 2024 day 11
We’ve finally completed 10 puzzles, surpassing my previous record (though I still have days 24 and 25...
Climbing a depth-first search hill, Advent of Code 2024, day 10
Today, we’re diving into the Day 10 puzzle. Like Day 6, it’s a 2D grid, but this time, we need to...
How to parse computer code, Advent of Code 2024 day 3
Having tackled some of the later Advent of Code challenges, I wanted to revisit Day 3, which...
How to repair a bridge, Advent of Code 2024 Day 7
After what felt like an eternity (five hours, to be precise), Day 20 part 2 finally decided to...
How to trace steps in a map, Advent of Code 2024 day 6
Back to my Advent of Code challenge, due to some unforeseeable issues, I am unable to complete the...
Video data IO through ffmpeg subprocess
As I restarted my job search (yes, I am still #OpenToWork, ping me!), in one of the job applications,...
How to code a Sorting Algorithm for Advent of Code 2024 day 5
In the previous post, I briefly mentioned that I am participating in this year’s Advent of Code....
Why does everyone love sorting algorithms?
I had an interview a few weeks ago, and was asked to implement a sorting algorithm. I didn’t manage...
Building state machine library with help from AI tools
Just out of boredom, while waiting for my follow-up interview sessions, I built a state-machine...