I love using VSCode. It is very lightweight and highly flexible for most of my writing needs (coding and otherwise.) One of the things I use it for is when I write posts for this blog. The simple s...

2022 was a year of self-reflection and awareness of my professional career and the purpose of work in my life. As the world economy declines, career and investment pursuits are put on hold. For now...

Personal Finance is a term that covers managing your money as well as saving and investing… it is about meeting personal financial goals, whether it’s having enough for short-term financial need...

Last month, I shared about our health emergency experience where we, as a family, learned a lot of lessons about life, health, faith, and healthcare in Singapore. My wife is now okay! We sincerely ...

It was 8:30 in the morning, just 5 hours before our flight for a 3-week family vacation. My wife told me that she’s having some stomach pain. One hour later, we found ourselves rushing to the hospi...

Someone recently asked me an interesting question, “Rafferty, doesn’t your role as an architect conflict with your role as an agile coach?” “Tell me more,” I asked. “In agile, the architecture cha...

Yesterday, I posted about how I am building a Second Brain using Obsidian. In this post, I am sharing how I created an automated workflow that converts handwritten notes into markdown (*.md) and sa...

In my attempt to take better notes as I learn multiple things in parallel, I encountered this concept called Second Brain. Do watch the video or read other articles about what it is. This post is ...

As I see more and more offices install a content camera for their Microsoft Teams Rooms, I’ve always wondered if it will work on paper using the standard MS Teams desktop client, to use this featur...

Last month, I wrote about how work items in Azure DevOps can be automatically created as you receive alerts from Azure (Microsoft Sentinel Alerts and Incidents & Microsoft Defender for Cloud Al...