Experiential

This Week: I visited Dr. Shawn’s house to help set up newly purchased laptops for upcoming EuroAsia competitions. My responsibilities included installing Windows updates and configuring kiosk mode so that users could only access the Sayembara application during events. Besides that, Dr. Shawn introduced me to a potential internship project: Read more

Feeling This Week This week was different from my previous weeks because I was not focused on completing a specific technical task. Instead, I spent time thinking about what I wanted to learn next and how I could contribute more meaningfully during the remainder of my internship. Even during my Read more

Successfully Merging the Debounce LLM Buttons PR This week, I successfully merged the PR for the Debounce LLM Buttons feature. During the review process, Dr. Shawn pointed out an important software engineering principle regarding error handling. Initially, I was detecting Gemini API rate limits through string processing and regular expressions Read more

Successfully Merged Polling Mixin PR This week, I successfully merged another pull request into the develop branch, which focused on fixing and restructuring the polling mixin implementation across controller files. The restructuring process helped make the controllers more organized and consistent compared to before. Working on Debounce LLM Buttons For Read more

Fixing the Classbar Crash Issue This week, I successfully fixed the classbar crash issue that happened during polling updates. After debugging and tracing the issue carefully, I found that the problem came from how VenueObj was being compared. Previously, the comparison used rev, but every time polling refreshed the data Read more

Merging My First “STABLE” PR This week, I successfully raised a pull request for the upgraded version of the application (without the mixin). With guidance from Dr. Shawn, I managed to squash and merge the PR into the develop branch after going through proper checks. As part of the process, Read more

Hitting a Block and Rethinking the Approach This week, I was still struggling to figure out how to properly fix and implement the moderator part in the emcee module. During the weekly meeting, Dr. Shawn suggested that I redo everything from a cleaner starting point. I also realized that I Read more

Polling Mixin (Riverpod v3 Compatible) This week, I successfully fixed the polling mixin so that it is compatible with Riverpod v3. The previous implementation had issues due to changes in Riverpod’s architecture, but after studying the updated structure and testing different approaches, I managed to refactor it properly. Current Issue: Read more

Deepening My Understanding This week, I continued focusing on learning how to implement mixins in a way that is compatible with Riverpod v3. Although progress felt slow, I realized that understanding the concept properly is more important than rushing to complete it. I spent time reading and experimenting to ensure Read more

Understanding Riverpod Better This week, I continued focusing on learning Riverpod, especially the differences between version 2 and version 3. Through reading documentation and exploring examples, I gained a clearer understanding of how both versions work and how certain implementations have changed. This helped me approach the migration process with Read more