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A Decision of Love

A musical piece that’s been stuck in my head for the past few months. Here’s a ‘once in a blue moon’ blog post about girls, love, music, and an anime film; just in time for Valentine’s.

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Political

The future of the Filipino

With the son of a dictator poised to be the Philippines’ next president, the future of the Filipino people is grim.

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Technical

Saving important files with an encrypted virtual drive and BitLocker

So you want to save important secretive files on your computer, but don’t want to install some fancy program or setup a PGP key to require a password. Look no further than Windows’ built-in BitLocker and virtual drives!

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Easy npm version synchronization for monorepos

Hate synchronizing package versions in npm package monorepos? Same. Let’s fix that.

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Personal

Next steps and a new project

I’ve been contemplating a lot about the cost of operating all these web tools and I have to say: damn, a lot of these are expensive. Especially when you’re starting a new project. Right now, my server costs stand at around US$81 a year. That’s a $15.16/year domain name and a €4.90 VPS. With currency […]

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RSS/Atom feed

I just noticed that WordPress doesn’t give a fancy button for subscribing to RSS. That’s annoying. For this blog, the link is https://blog.chlod.net/feed/ in case you need it.

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An extremely comprehensive guide to running your own school elections with old software

Nothing drives me more crazy than abandonware. Facilitating school elections is no easy feat. Not because it’s hard for students to understand how to vote, but because the software is hilariously painful to deal with. The software currently suggested by PSHS-CVC teachers, and also used by the University of the Philippines, Halalan, is 9 years […]