Alvin Ng

I love to analyze digital products and use that knowledge to build software.
Currently building corporate ventures at BCG Digital Ventures.

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This equipment changed my video calls forever

I was insecure with my voice quality over video calls until I started using the lapel mic.

Writing tests for a codebase that has none

Did you just inherit a code base that doesn't have any tests? You have heard about the benefits of automated tested but don't know how to get started?

Internet and Web Application 101

While the internet may look like a complicated machine from the outside, its richness inside is powered by variations of the same few HTTP protocols.

Introduction to Programming Paradigms

One common saying is that "good code should read like a story". And just like a story, code can have different type of code structures for readers to make sense of what the code is doing.

Don't Abuse Inheritance

When first starting out with object-oriented programming (OOP), it is easy to abuse its many language features; one such feature is inheritance.