57: My 2 cents of gun control in US

Assuming everyone has been following the recent Texas elementary school shooting incident, there is not much to explain the situation. Statistics  about the gun shooting in US can be found everywhere online. I do want ...

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 ...

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> ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

33: Here is my first comic attempt

First, 32 was still in a draft, discussing an idea about retail, extended from 31: Retail is not really dead – Part One. Therefore, this is really 33. I will publish 32 later. Second, I have ...

27: Hotels for the future

In the last few months, my family visited a few places and lived in a hotel, an inn, and a cottage. They all had different experience when we were there. I will elaborate what I ...

22: write my own Kusto Explorer

This morning when I was running out there, I finally reach out this idea: I need to write my own Kusto Query Explorer, because this thing is terrible. It is extremely painful to watch someone ...

21: Get paid for not doing something

Prime day is over. I actually cancelled my Prime member quite a while ago. I still buy stuff from Amazon, occasionally, but I don’t buy because it’s a specific sale for members only, or because ...