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2026 5

  1. Bringing USB 3 and USB4/Thunderbolt to Windows 98 to 10
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  3. Bringing modern USB xHCI support to Windows 98/ME/2K/XP/Vista/7
  4. Bringing Swift to the Apple II
  5. Review and Teardown of Creative Midi Blaster MB-10 synthesizer

2025 2

  1. Reflections of a newly minted NUS CEG Master graduate
  2. Llama 2 LLM on DOS

2024 5

  1. Modern 2024 PC with a vintage twist (ft. Ryzen 5 7600 & GeForce 4060 Ti)
  2. Book Review: The Race for Perfect: Inside the Quest to Design the Ultimate Portable Computer by Steve Hamm
  3. DOS's Last Stand on a modern Thinkpad: X13 Gen 1 with Intel i5-10310U
  4. My first chip with Tiny Tapeout 4 - Covox Speech Thing clone
  5. Setting up an open-frame Pentium 3 testbench

2023 3

  1. HDMI ISA graphics card for vintage PCs by improving the Graphics Gremlin
  2. Teardown & review of a new 386 system: Hand386
  3. Building a DOS ChatGPT client in 2023

2022 1

  1. Teardown of Habotest HT107E Socket Tester

2021 8

  1. How do I produce my flight videos?
  2. Review, usage and repair of the Framework laptop
  3. Birthday 2021: Year in Review and going forward
  4. My Dos and Don'ts when trying to convince the unvaccinated
  5. My First Helicopter Ride
  6. DME Theory and Teardown of Narco DME 890
  7. Setting up a 486 retro PC
  8. Transitioning to Dynon Skyview HDX glass cockpit

2020 14

  1. Teardown of an Aviation Radio Bendix King KX-155
  2. Learnings from preparing a wake
  3. How does Flight Simulator 2020 compare to real flights over Singapore?
  4. 简体中文 (zh)
  5. Adding Chinese support to my blog
  6. Book Review: Air-conditioned Nation Revisited by Cherian George (Part 3 of 3)
  7. Book Review: Air-conditioned Nation series: Singapore Incomplete by Cherian George (Part 2 of 3)
  8. Book Review: Air-conditioned Nation series by Cherian George (Part 1 of 3)
  9. Radar Theory and Teardown of Aircraft Transponder RT-459A
  10. Safety and Environmental Concerns of General Aviation within Singapore
  11. Review of a new-old motherboard NuXT v2.0
  12. Migrating my blog from WordPress to Hugo
  13. How much it costs to fly General Aviation (GA) in Singapore?
  14. Singapore quiz in iOSConfSG 2020

2019 12

  1. Building a new Win 3.1 app in 2019 Part 1: Slack client
  2. Review and partial teardown of Fairphone 3
  3. Trivia Questions asked during GeekcampSG 2019
  4. Considerations on picking a Flight school for PPL - A Singaporean perspective
  5. Stock take for my last birthday in my 20s
  6. Teardown of NDP2019 LED wristband
  7. Flight trip to Malacca and back to Singapore
  8. Notes on flying in Seletar Airport and Singapore Training Areas
  9. Conference Emcee Experience: GopherconSG 2019
  10. Aviation FAQ from my friends
  11. I became a Private Pilot and this is my story: Part (2-2) in San Diego
  12. I became a Private Pilot and this is my story: Part (1-2) in Singapore

2018 3

  1. Reflections after 2 weeks of PPL Training in the US
  2. Why I use the IBM Model M keyboard that is older than me?
  3. A Science Project: "Make the 486 Great Again!" - Modern Linux in an ancient PC

2017 7

  1. My First Conference Emcee Experience
  2. X commandments before finding a tech-cofounder/engineer
  3. First Flight Experience in a light plane (Socata TB10)
  4. Repair Kopitiam specialty electrical tools (Part 2): Short Circuit Limiter
  5. Book Review: Neither Civil Nor Servant (The Philip Yeo Story)
  6. CV of Failures
  7. A Science Project: Bringing the Covox Speech Thing to 2017

2016 7

  1. A Science Project: Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on vintage and modern hardware in 2016
  2. (Partial) Reverse Engineering the NDP 2016 LED Wristband
  3. Repair Kopitiam specialty electrical tools
  4. Installing Windows XP on a modern unsupported (Haswell) system in 2016
  5. Eagle to DIY PCB Etching
  6. Pulau Semakau trip
  7. Recap of 2015 and plans for 2016

2015 8

  1. PCB Business/Name Card
  2. Graduation, Uni story arcs and thanks
  3. Test driving an electric car (Mitsubishi i-MiEV)
  4. The only easy Sem was last Sem
  5. First foray into wearable tech
  6. My thoughts on Lee Kuan Yew’s passing
  7. Book Review: Chaotic Thoughts from the Old Millennium by Sim Wong Hoo
  8. NUS Hack&Roll 2015 AAR

2014 7

  1. NUS SOC Print (Android/iOS): Background, technical aspects and learning points
  2. Favourite Quotes
  3. My (brutally) honest 24th birthday reflections
  4. My NTU local exchange experience (Aug - Dec 2013)
  5. Changing Casio watch to positive display
  6. code::XtremeApps:: 2014 Hackathon AAR
  7. What I did in NUS Hack&Roll 2014

2013 7

  1. Finally the end of CS3216
  2. Nearing the end of CS3216
  3. Why this semester will be the most pivotal for me?
  4. Fringe Intro + Book Review: Fringe: September's Notebook + Ending Trivia
  5. My experience in NUS Hack&Roll 2013
  6. Programmer Dvorak layout
  7. Number pad in DVD slot

2011 2

  1. 11/12 S1 PS1101E Intro to Politics: Paper on pros and cons of NS
  2. Furthest backdated post