55: New Website Idea [Updated]!
Just thought of a new website idea. I think I am going to do it. I am actually feeling good and excited about this idea. The domain name I was thinking earlier is registered already, but ...
54: UWP WTF Moment Number 4
I can’t help it. Couple days ago, I encountered another UWP WTF moments. There are solutions to all, but it is just not natural. Making me question if UWP gets any love at all. One ...
53: UWP WTF Error Messages version 3
Here is how anyone can reproduce it. Create a custom control that is a MenuFlyoutItem and re-template it as this: <MenuFlyoutItem.Template> <ControlTemplate> <Grid x:Name=”RootGrid” Width=”280″> <HyperlinkButton Content=”Microsoft home page” Click=”{Binding ElementName=Host, Path=ViewModel.SignoutCommand}” /> </Grid> </ControlTemplate> ...
52: UWP unhelpful exceptions
I have been encountering very unhelpful error messages when working with UWP. I am sure at least one of them inherit from WPF, but most of them appear to be new to me. Here is ...
51: UWP gotchas and tips
Coming from years of experience with WinForms and WPF, UWP is weird. I am continuously having surprises (sometimes good, but sometimes poor) since working with UWP lately. Some of those gotchas are almost like in ...
50: I am back and here is a new package published couple days ago
Wow, I am back. My last post was in the end of April and now it is the end of November. Definitely a lot of things have happened in the last 7 months. We are ...
49: Time to pause
Lately I, like many other people in the world, are under lock down and social distance order, so I have been staying at home and spending a lot of time with my kid. This is ...
48: Web may eventually disappear
Web may eventually disappear… Hmm, did I say “Web”? I actually mean Web browsing may eventually…did I say disappear? OK, now I got your full attention, what I really want to say is: Today’s web ...
47: Fantastic interfaces and where to find them
This is the second part of the previous post: 46: Define Interface With everything happening around the world lately, I think it is important to do things that make our own feeling alive. I decide to ...
46: Define Interface
I had an enlightening discussion with someone last week on how to solve a problem without jumping into a solution with interface. Unfortunately, at least from my perspective, the question was started with a reference ...
45: Another feature Strava is missing
This is another episode of missing features in Strava. Here is the list of past episodes: 26: Missing Feature in Strava 35: Another missing feature in Strava I honestly feel they should hire me as ...
44: Book vending machine – a terrible idea?
Origin I had a trip recently. I was wandering in the airport before my flight, and realized one thing: Why is bookstore in airport still a thing? And why almost all (medium size or up) ...
43: There should have an auto-archive machine for outdated Internet content
First, I converted HongInCanada.com to Blazor hosted model. Took me a few days due to some unexpected issues. I wanted to something simple, so I change what I used to have with much simpler layout ...
42: How to identify the breed of a cat?
A simple idea: How can I identify the breed of a cat? I mean, any cat. It is trivial to differentiate dogs from cats. There are many work have been done and can be found ...
41: OurCraving – an old idea of restaurants lookup with friends – and year-end summary
This was my old idea from 2012, and I built OurCraving.com back in 2013. I published a long post of my research, motivation and design in a different blog, however, I finally decided not to ...
40: I need an AdBlock on smart device when playing music
Seriously, this is very much needed. I was trying to listen to calm sleeping music for a nap. Just after one song, the ad came up. 3 in a row, not just one commercial, it ...
39: Can Smart Home devices have a drill mode?
First, there are tons of recommendations about turning off your phone before going to bed, such as: this: Put the Phone Away! 3 Reasons Why Looking at It Before Bed Is a Bad Habit or ...
38: Is it possible to setup reminder automatically, without me telling it?
Honestly, busy at work in the last few weeks, and then another surprise with tight deadline a week ago. My whole team had to drop everything and fully focused on the surprise. I was not ...
37: Review-based shopping is annoying, try bad-experience-based shopping
First, let’s walk through 3 types of shopping experiences I had Buying Mattress Online A few months ago, we decided to replace our 15-year old spring mattress and we were tempted to try one of ...
36: AI-selected president candidates
Earlier I came up with an idea of 16: Interview for a city leader. The other day during a water cooler chatting, a coworker suggested that we could use AI to select president candidates. This is ...