Gan Eng Chin

Automattician. Malaysian. And everything in between.

Tag: dailyprompt

  • Mission

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    Responding to the Bloganuary January 9 prompt: This is deep. I feel like I am still learning and finding mine in my life. Or perhaps I shouldn’t look at my life-long mission now, since I haven’t really figured out one. A short-term mission. To get more people (especially in Malaysia) to know more about Automattic…

  • Living a very long life

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    Responding to the Bloganuary January 8 prompt: It depends. If everyone can live for a very long life (say 100 years old at the minimum), but every other factors remain the same, then I feel like the quality of life may become bad or terrible. There would be more and more people, on a crowded…

  • Do Differently

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    My response to the Bloganuary January 7 prompt: One thing I mentioned in my previous post is that I wish I can hold on less to perfectionism. Nothing is perfect. Shipping imperfect code is better than perfect code that never get shipped. A published post is better than a perfect post that never get published.…

  • Freeway Billboard

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    Here’s my response to the Bloganuary January 6 post: I think of many quotes that could go into the billboard. If you had one shot or one opportunityTo seize everything you ever wanted in one momentWould you capture it or just let it slip? Eminem’s Lose Yourself song. Though it’s probably a bit too cheesy…

  • Spending time thinking about the future or the past

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    This is a response to the Bloganuary January 5 prompt: I guess it is about 50/50. I don’t usually actively think about the past, unless I am triggered by something. For example, I would look into the past to make an informed decision in projects. Or when Google photos shows me highlights from the past,…

  • Greatest Gift

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    My answer to the Bloganuary January 4 prompt: I’m not really a gift person. Sometimes I just find it difficult to buy gift for people. Whether it is a birthday gift, or a souvenir when I am traveling. Unless the person explicitly tells me “Hey Gan, would you buy me this thing from that place…

  • College

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    My answer to the Bloganuary January 3 post: This is going to be a short one. Partly because it is easy to answer, and mostly because I am quite occupied today. 😂 I attended University of Malaya to study Computer Science, major in Software Engineering. The university is the oldest university in Malaysia. It was…

  • Playtime

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    This post is a response to the Bloganuary January 2 post: Spending time with my daughter is play time. Taking her to places, enjoying good food, walking with her in the park, singing made-up creative silly songs with her, reading books to her in book stores and bed time stories before she sleeps. I like…

  • Biggest Challenges

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    This post is a response to the following Bloganuary January 1 prompt: I have challenges in life. To keep things short and simple, I’ll just focus on challenges related to my work in Automattic right now. The one biggest challenge for me in Automattic is PHP. I joined Automattic in September 2020 as a Senior…