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Finally had some new music released today: I did a remix as part of a remix pack celebrating the original song's 30th anniversary https://open.spotify.com/track/4z9HypHtpMpHAYVenSjsY3
Passed my MB-230 exam (Dynamics 365 Customer Service Functional Consultant Associate) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/users/bryantan-0852/transcript/vjzp4im3z545klg
Made an update profile pic, with an iterative process of generation from Stable Diffusion + editing in GIMP Don't have the luxury of an NVIDIA GPU this time so it took longer than usual
Fourth blood donation today π©Έ
Edited the Pink Dot SG entry to reflect this year's edition that happened last night π³οΈβππ΄ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pink_Dot_SG&oldid=1161868128
Did my third blood donation ever, this time at the the blood bank at the Health Sciences Authority building near Outram Certainly way bigger place than the blood bank in Dhoby Ghaut that I've been ...
Finished reading this book "Connect the Dots" by Christian Busch, essentially about serendipity and various ways to set up the right environment and circumstances to boost our "smart luck" Spent qu...
Dropped in on another internal webinar on new ways of working, this time talking about intentional collaboration and the idea of "no-meeting days" Learned about the various aspects of effective col...
Dropped in on an online webinar about exploring options for flexible working scenarios: flexible starting and stopping hours, flexible days off, and flexible working locations (client sites, main o...
Earned the certificate for LFC131: Green Software for Practitioners: https://www.credly.com/earner/earned/share/afda183d-88db-4c40-9247-b818eb9e51f4
Earned my certificate for Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (CRM) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/users/bryantan-0852/transcript/vjzp4im3z545klg
Just managed to hit the milestone of my hundred thousandth edit on Wikidata π₯³ Seems kinda appropriate considering Wikidata also turns 10 this October π
Updated my kinda bland grayscale picture with a mixture of Stable Diffusion + GIMP π€π¨ Rough process: β’ Vaguely paint some translucent colours over the original picture in GIMP, and export β’ Feed im...
Helped to update some .NET code to fix a bug in a CRM system, with the help and guidance of other devs in the team to transfer the changes into the UAT environment Got a better idea of how debuggin...
Created my Last.fm account and dove into the world of scrobbling music: https://www.last.fm/user/btcprox
Proposed a Wikidata property linking video games to the Naver Game website, and it got approved Could potentially help improve coverage on video games in South Korea? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/...
Started playing Immortality, oddly the first time I've dived into the FMV genre I'm aware of the previous titles of Her Story and Telling Lies, and so far Immortality seems to extend ideas from the...
Went to the last day of Moonfest to catch this interesting music experiment of fusing electronic music with Teochew opera classics: https://www.esplanade.com/whats-on/festivals-and-series/festivals...
Had a go at a kinda "proper" TikTok, filming and editing clips of a carnival event in the neighbourhood into something a little more than just a single recording with some captions π Also found a u...
Went to Bar Bar Black Sheep to support two electronic musicians Falling Islands + Cosmic Armchair doling out groovy synth music πΉ For Cosmic Armchair in particular, it's pretty much their first liv...
Popped by for the Ableton User Group Singapore gathering, first one in several years due to the pandemic Had special guest Claire Marie Lim (aka dolltr!ck) breakdown one of her songs in Ableton, gi...
Donated blood for the first time ever π©Έ Not sure why I didn't do this sooner, probably laziness... but better late than never, and hope to keep this up on a regular basis βοΈ
Did some editing of my neighbourhood while out on a night walk Trying to be a bit bolder in edits by laying out more paths to hopefully improve routing https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/12360...
Pink Dot SG, an annual LGBTQ+ event in Singapore, held its 14th edition at Hong Lim Park, and I helped a bit in updating its Wikipedia page π³οΈβπ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Dot_SG
Chanced upon this documentary on Wikipedia, that marked its 20th anniversary in 2021 and has grown to be a critical repository of knowledge on the Internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTtqKXRoy10
Happened to spot these water monitors engaged in a brawl within the Singapore Botanic Gardens, and quickly snapped a few pics with my phone Also recorded their interaction on iNaturalist: https://w...
Went on a bit of a walkabout in Katong, checking out some of the malls + shops, and filled out some gaps in OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/120487686 https://www.openstreetma...
Managed to reach the (good) ending of The Caligula Effect 2 (aka Caligula 2): turned out to be a neat sequel with great improvements over the first game, plus the music again just enhances the whol...
Managed to successfully complete the main story of Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin π ...although I was playing on the Action difficulty and not the toughest difficulty... that will be a ...
Been involved in neurodiversity.wiki, an ongoing project aiming to build a comprehensive wiki on neurodiversity and various mental diagnoses π§ in particular I've been pretty involved in curating co...
Achieved the milestone of ten thousand edits on Wikidata, after a little more than two years of contributionsποΈ
Went on a pretty impromptu solo walkabout in various towns in Singapore, and took a few quick shots along the way πΈ Perks of being in a small country is that you could walk through many connected t...
Started playing Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, and it's probably the first game I've tried that could be considered a Souls-like, or at least a Souls-hybrid So far it's been mechanical...
Final day of the internship πΎ Broad summary of everything achieved during the past 6 months: β’ Worked on a CRM project in Dynamics CRM with a team, within a hybrid Agile-Waterfall methodology β’ Gle...
Watched this documentary about the current efforts undertaken to improve Singapore's biodiversity and rewild Singapore Not merely as simple as planting numerous trees all over the "Garden City" π² h...
Made a short lofi-inspired track as part of a contest, trying to tap into sentimental vibes Didn't win that contest, but still managed to get a lot of traction from it on Audius, probably because I...
Got a valuable opportunity to remix a then upcoming song from Cosmic Armchair, a music project by the principal tutor of the Electronic Music Lab that I was part of... and ended up making two diffe...
Had the nice opportunity to remix a song from Brannlum, who's also an alumnus of the Electronic Music Lab that I was part of βοΈ What's neat is that the other producers in the remix compilation are ...
Polychrome is a later half of a compilation of original tracks, and the companion to the earlier Monochrome Intended to be a "mirror image" and dabbling of styles that I didn't previously dive into...
Monochrome is one half of a compilation of original tracks, and a companion to the later half Polychrome Was kinda trying to revisit some of the original music tastes that I touched on while in my ...
Proposed a property linking people to their entries on the Strongman Archives website, and it got approved β
As far as I could tell, the Strongman Archives site, despite being pretty new, might be ...
Proposed a property linking games to their corresponding entries on the Chinese website A9VG, and it got approved β
Wikidata has quite a collection of properties for external identifiers relating t...
Progress at end of 4th (mock) Sprint: β’ More wrangling of C# plugins: implementing a sort of "history log" feature that is useful for auditing β’ Wrestling with recurring cloud flows in Power Automa...
Remixed a Dillon Francis song as part of a contest on Audius π https://audius.co/btcprox/dillon-francis-ft-aleyna-tilki-real-love-btcprox-remix
Dabbled a bit with Power Automate Desktop, and quickly whipped up a basic but working flow that simplifies some of the stuff I do outside of work (in this case, extract some info off a webpage with...
Proposed a property for an identifier for a company on the Comparably site, and it got created β
Seemed sensible considering that other similar sites (LinkedIn, Glassdoor) have their own company id...
Progress at end of 3rd (mock) Sprint: β’ More self-learning on C# + plug-in development β’ Configuring of more plug-ins β’ Configuring business rules + workflows: β’ Make use of an "Anonymous Customer"...
Progress at end of 2nd (mock) Sprint: β’ Implemented plugin to support round-robin assignment β’ Tweaked custom button functionality with Javascript, to display useful dialogs + set focus on particul...
Found that a nearby mall that recently opened hadn't yet been updated on OpenStreetMap, so I thought I'd go check it out and do a little simple mapping around the area πΊοΈ By no means do I have soph...
2nd (Mock) Sprint Mid-point Progress: β’ Getting a bit more used to working with Azure DevOps β’ Built more plug-ins in C# for the solution, using Visual Studio β’ Implemented some pre-validation chec...
First (mock) Project Sprint progress: β’ Developed some features in Power Apps β’ Learned some bits about making JavaScript web resources + Visual C# plug-ins for more sophisticated features β’ Got mo...
Had my eye on The Caligula Effect 2 for a while now, after having experienced The Caligula Effect: Overdose, and I finally started getting into the sequel Similar setting where protagonist + crew r...
Just dabbling in a bit of querying Wikidata using SPARQL, as a little peek into the potential of questions we can ask the dataset Ideally this query is supposed to fetch the list of other works tha...
First day of getting a feel of what it's like to be working on a CRM project in Avanade Also first time getting to grips with Azure DevOps
First day as an intern in CRM solution development at Avanade Asia... Equally nervous and curious on what lies ahead π
Got the opportunity to perform at the National Gallery Singapore alongside two other Electronic Music Lab members, as part of the gallery's monthly music programme Resonates With: https://www.faceb...
Was involved in a fun music project: A Whale's Lantern is a series of albums, each one containing tracks made by randomly paired participants across Mastodon instances I decided to join in the fun ...
Got the privilege to be the opening act, and representative for NUS' Electronic Music Lab, for the fierce local trio of Kiat + Intriguant + Vandetta Was pretty nervous being associated alone with q...
Back in 2017, I entered a music contest by the legendary duo Coldcut where we had samples from their tracks to play with, and amazingly enough I got picked as a winning entry, with a cool autograph...
Put up my first ever music track on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/btcprox/humilis-opus-1 Not technically my first time dabbling in music production or composition, but certainly the first origi...
First official day of lectures as an undergrad π
Usually most days I go around on Wikidata editing various items in my free time, but in the last few days I've directed a bit more focus towards items relating to the Paralympics and para-athletes,...
Took a practical exam for ATCL piano diploma in June 2008, and after a few weeks of anticipation, I got the certificate in the mail confirming that I passed β
Started playing NEO: The World Ends With You, a sequel game coming in nearly a decade and a half after the first game. I remember spending hours on the original on the Nintendo DS, and it's pretty ...
Concluded an 8-week training programme focused on learning Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM, with some hands-on exercises developing solutions, cumulating in a final MCQ assessment Being a complete newbi...
Last day of working in the Internal Audit department at Resorts World Sentosa Some things I picked up in my time there: β’ Got some insight to the various things that internal auditors deal with, in...
First day of working at Resorts World Sentosa in the Internal Audit department, helping in auditing assignments and using data analysis tools to assist some audit projects
Submitted my remix of one of Intriguant's tracks "Your Love"... and pleasantly surprised it got picked as one of the remixes to be included in the official remix compilation π https://intriguant.ba...
Read through Jordan Ellenberg's "How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking". Neat layperson-friendly exposure to the mathematical/statistical principles underlying decisions, which at...
Started training program for a CRM developer role, using Microsoft D365 to build solutions for clients
Officially made the first non-anonymous contribution to Wikidata; the start of a long ongoing hobby of incrementally improving the open data platform πͺ
Hi Polywork π Giving this platform a whirl; seems to be a pretty interesting approach to better capture a person's varied interests and achievements, not contained by any job profile π€ Guessing tha...
The Complete SQL Bootcamp Completed online Udemy Course on SQL fundamentals https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-PL7DSM60/
GraphAcademy Course: Introduction to Neo4j (online) Completed online course on fundamentals of a graph database, and basic Neo4j usage
Completed group seminar project as part of final year of degree programme, investigating applications of Monte Carlo methods in two contexts: estimating the value of a call option modeled by Browni...
Machine Learning A-Zβ’: Hands-On Python & R In Data Science Completed the online Udemy course on fundamental machine learning concepts with implementations from Python and R https://www.udemy.com/ce...
Started trying out using Obsidian for managing my notes: https://obsidian.md/ Have tried out various systems before (Roam, Mindforger, TiddlyWiki), but currently giving this a whirl as a free knowl...
Made a series of instrumental reinterpretations of songs from Singaporean musicians Also rendered a simple animation in Blender as accompanying visuals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5fFIp6la1k
Commonwealth Short Story Prize Ceremony 2017 Performance Was involved in collaborative performance between NUS Electronic Music Lab and NUS Dance Synergy for the prize ceremony at The Arts House; a...
Crossroads (Light to Night Festival 2020) Was involved in a collaborative performance between NUS Electronic Music Lab and Stephanie Ow (visually impaired erhu player), as a fusion of traditional i...
Graduated with Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Applied Mathematics, specializing in Mathematical Modelling & Data Analytics