• Rental Properties: Repairs vs. Improvements

    Posted on April 30, 2023

    With rental properties, you always prefer to have fix-ups classified as repairs and not as improvements. The reason is that repairs are deductible now, while improvements on rental property are capital items that must be depreciated over a recovery period of 27.5 years for residential rental property. With your residence... [Read More]
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  • Development Environment Set Up in Windows

    Posted on February 19, 2023

    I have been a long-time Mac user. Mac has been by development environment for pretty much all my professional life. I like its aesetics, its Unix-like environment, its native support for many things that can greatly improve the quality of life (like preview for PDF and raw files, iMessage, and... [Read More]

  • How to Understand Drive's SMART Values

    Posted on February 8, 2023

    RAID (redundant array of independent disks) is a data storage method that stores the same information on multiple hard disks to protect against drive failure. NAS drives are typically set up with redundancy, which means that they can tolerate a certain number of drive failures. However, multiple concurrent drive failures... [Read More]
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  • NAS: Two Years Later

    Posted on January 3, 2023

    At the beginning of 2021, I set up my Synology NAS and wrote about it in this blog. Two years have gone by and I thought I write another update about my experience with NAS. [Read More]
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  • A Brief Chat about Tech in Road Cycling

    Posted on July 23, 2022

    I love riding a bike since I was a child. But it was not until late 2021 did I pick up my road bike and become serious about road cycling as my main form of exercise. As a competitive sport, road cyclists crave to ride faster and longer. And sport... [Read More]
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  • Kotlin Coroutines

    Posted on March 20, 2022

    Kotlin provides coroutines as a library kotlinx.coroutines. The core language provides the concept of suspending function, a safer and less error-prone abstraction for asynchronous operations than futures and promises. The rest is provided in the coroutine library. [Read More]
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