April 2, 2020

Figma UI Recreation Challenge #1: Streamlabs Dashboard

Once in a while I’d come across a screenshot of a cool UI that I think would be relatively simple to recreate in Figma, so I made it a personal challenge to do so. This is not something that I do in my spare time or anything because, quite frankly I don’t have any spare time anymore. This is more of a distraction to prevent me from going insane between juggling 3 different major projects atm.

I will first start with 2 Streamlabs dashboard screens.

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March 22, 2020

Regarding Covid-19

This post will contains the most up-to-date information regarding this pandemic

Global

  • Confirmed
    Deaths
    Recovered
    • USA
      323,516
      9,171
      16,590
    • Spain
      130,759
      12,418
      38,080
    • Italy
      128,948
      15,887
      21,815
    • Germany
      98,765
      1,524
      26,400
    • France
      89,953
      7,560
      15,438
    • China
      81,669
      3,329
      76,964
    • Iran
      58,226
      3,603
      19,736
    • UK
      47,806
      4,934
      135
    • Turkey
      23,934
      501
      786
    • Switzerland
      21,100
      685
      6,415
    • Belgium
      19,691
      1,447
      3,751
    • Netherlands
      17,851
      1,766
      250
    • Canada
      14,426
      258
      2,603
    • Austria
      11,934
      204
      2,998
    • Portugal
      11,278
      295
      75
    • Brazil
      10,475
      448
      127
    • S. Korea
      10,237
      183
      6,463
    • Israel
      8,018
      48
      477
    • Sweden
      6,830
      401
      205
    • Australia
      5,687
      35
      2,315
    • Norway
      5,686
      70
      32
    • Russia
      5,389
      45
      355
    • Ireland
      4,604
      137
      25
    • Czechia
      4,543
      67
      96
    • Chile
      4,471
      34
      528
    • Denmark
      4,369
      179
      1,327
    • Poland
      4,102
      94
      134
    • Romania
      3,864
      151
      374
    • Malaysia
      3,662
      61
      1,005
    • Ecuador
      3,646
      180
      100
    • India
      3,588
      99
      229
    • Philippines
      3,246
      152
      64
    • Japan
      3,139
      77
      514
    • Pakistan
      3,123
      45
      208
    • Luxembourg
      2,804
      36
      500
    • Saudi Arabia
      2,385
      34
      488
    • Indonesia
      2,273
      198
      164
    • Thailand
      2,169
      23
      674
    • Finland
      1,927
      28
      300
    • Serbia
      1,908
      51
      54
    • Mexico
      1,890
      79
      633
    • Panama
      1,801
      46
      13
    • Peru
      1,746
      73
      914
    • Dominican Republic
      1,745
      82
      17
    • Greece
      1,735
      73
      78
    • South Africa
      1,585
      9
      95
    • UAE
      1,505
      10
      125
    • Iceland
      1,486
      4
      428
    • Argentina
      1,451
      44
      280
    • Colombia
      1,406
      32
      85
    • Qatar
      1,325
      3
      109
    • Algeria
      1,320
      152
      90
    • Singapore
      1,309
      6
      297
    • Ukraine
      1,251
      32
      25
    • Croatia
      1,182
      15
      125
    • Estonia
      1,097
      15
      62
    • Egypt
      1,070
      71
      241
    • New Zealand
      1,039
      1
      156
    • Slovenia
      997
      28
      79
    • Morocco
      961
      69
      70
    • Iraq
      961
      61
      279
    • Hong Kong
      890
      4
      206
    • Moldova, Republic of
      864
      15
      30
    • Armenia
      822
      7
      57
    • Lithuania
      811
      12
      7
    • Hungary
      733
      34
      66
    • Diamond Princess
      712
      11
      619
    • Bahrain
      698
      4
      427
    • Bosnia
      654
      21
      30
    • Kazakhstan
      584
      6
      42
    • Azerbaijan
      584
      5
      32
    • Belarus
      562
      8
      52
    • Kuwait
      556
      1
      99
    • Macedonia
      555
      18
      23
    • Cameroon
      555
      9
      17
    • Tunisia
      553
      19
      5
    • Latvia
      533
      1
      1
    • Bulgaria
      531
      20
      37
    • Lebanon
      527
      18
      54
    • Andorra
      501
      18
      26
    • Slovakia
      485
      1
      10
    • Cyprus
      446
      9
      37
    • Costa Rica
      435
      2
      13
    • Uruguay
      400
      5
      93
    • Taiwan
      363
      5
      54
    • Albania
      361
      20
      104
    • Réunion
      344
      0
      40
    • Afghanistan
      337
      7
      15
    • Jordan
      323
      5
      74
    • Cuba
      320
      8
      15
    • Burkina Faso
      318
      16
      66
    • Oman
      298
      2
      61
    • Uzbekistan
      298
      2
      30
    • Honduras
      268
      22
      6
    • San Marino
      266
      32
      35
    • Channel Islands
      262
      5
      13
    • Côte d'Ivoire
      245
      1
      25
    • Vietnam
      241
      0
      90
    • Palestinian Territory, Occupied
      228
      1
      23
    • Mauritius
      227
      7
      7
    • Malta
      227
      0
      2
    • Nigeria
      224
      5
      27
    • Senegal
      222
      2
      82
    • Ghana
      214
      5
      31
    • Montenegro
      214
      2
      1
    • Faroe Islands
      181
      0
      99
    • Sri Lanka
      175
      5
      33
    • Georgia
      170
      2
      36
    • Bolivia
      157
      10
      2
    • Venezuela
      155
      7
      52
    • DRC
      154
      18
      3
    • Kyrgyzstan
      147
      1
      9
    • Martinique
      145
      3
      27
    • Niger
      144
      8
      0
    • Kenya
      142
      4
      4
    • Brunei
      135
      1
      73
    • Guadeloupe
      134
      7
      24
    • Mayotte
      134
      2
      14
    • Isle of Man
      127
      1
      0
    • Guinea
      121
      0
      5
    • Cambodia
      114
      0
      50
    • Trinidad and Tobago
      104
      7
      1
    • Paraguay
      104
      3
      12
    • Gibraltar
      103
      0
      52
    • Rwanda
      102
      0
      4
    • Bangladesh
      88
      9
      33
    • Liechtenstein
      77
      1
      0
    • Madagascar
      72
      0
      2
    • Monaco
      66
      1
      3
    • Aruba
      64
      0
      1
    • El Salvador
      62
      3
      2
    • Guatemala
      61
      2
      15
    • French Guiana
      61
      0
      22
    • Djibouti
      59
      0
      9
    • Barbados
      56
      1
      6
    • Jamaica
      55
      3
      7
    • Uganda
      48
      0
      0
    • Congo
      45
      5
      2
    • Mali
      45
      5
      1
    • Togo
      44
      3
      20
    • Macao
      44
      0
      10
    • Ethiopia
      43
      1
      4
    • French Polynesia
      40
      0
      0
    • Zambia
      39
      1
      3
    • Bermuda
      37
      0
      14
    • Cayman Islands
      35
      1
      1
    • Saint Martin
      29
      2
      7
    • Eritrea
      29
      0
      0
    • Bahamas
      28
      4
      0
    • Sint Maarten
      25
      4
      6
    • Guyana
      24
      4
      0
    • Gabon
      21
      1
      1
    • Myanmar
      21
      1
      0
    • Haiti
      21
      0
      1
    • Tanzania, United Republic of
      20
      1
      3
    • Syrian Arab Republic
      19
      2
      2
    • Maldives
      19
      0
      13
    • Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
      18
      1
      0
    • Guinea-Bissau
      18
      0
      0
    • New Caledonia
      17
      0
      1
    • Benin
      16
      0
      2
    • Equatorial Guinea
      16
      0
      1
    • Namibia
      16
      0
      3
    • Antigua and Barbuda
      15
      0
      0
    • Dominica
      14
      0
      0
    • Mongolia
      14
      0
      2
    • Saint Lucia
      14
      0
      1
    • Liberia
      13
      3
      3
    • Sudan
      12
      2
      2
    • Fiji
      12
      0
      0
    • Grenada
      12
      0
      0
    • Curaçao
      11
      1
      5
    • Greenland
      11
      0
      3
    • Lao People's Democratic Republic
      11
      0
      0
    • Angola
      10
      2
      2
    • Suriname
      10
      1
      0
    • Mozambique
      10
      0
      1
    • Saint Kitts and Nevis
      10
      0
      0
    • Seychelles
      10
      0
      0
    • MS Zaandam
      9
      2
      0
    • Zimbabwe
      9
      1
      0
    • Nepal
      9
      0
      1
    • Chad
      9
      0
      0
    • Swaziland
      9
      0
      0
    • Central African Republic
      8
      0
      0
    • Cabo Verde
      7
      1
      0
    • Holy See (Vatican City State)
      7
      0
      0
    • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
      7
      0
      1
    • Somalia
      7
      0
      1
    • Mauritania
      6
      1
      2
    • Montserrat
      6
      0
      0
    • St. Barth
      6
      0
      1
    • Sierra Leone
      6
      0
      0
    • Nicaragua
      5
      1
      0
    • Turks and Caicos Islands
      5
      1
      0
    • Belize
      5
      0
      0
    • Bhutan
      5
      0
      2
    • Botswana
      4
      1
      0
    • Gambia
      4
      1
      2
    • Malawi
      4
      0
      0
    • Western Sahara
      4
      0
      0
    • Anguilla
      3
      0
      0
    • British Virgin Islands
      3
      0
      0
    • Burundi
      3
      0
      0
    • Caribbean Netherlands
      2
      0
      0
    • Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
      1
      0
      0
    • Papua New Guinea
      1
      0
      0
    • Saint Pierre Miquelon
      1
      0
      0
    • South Sudan
      1
      0
      0
    • Timor-Leste
      1
      0
      0
    Total
    1,245,246
    67,911
    256,503
    Last updated: April 5, 2020 - 11:41 pm (+07:00)

     

    March 22, 2020

    In Fantasia

    In Fantasia

    -By Kishi Bashi

    In Fantasia the mirrors lie to us they plant a seed
    One by one we build an empire where devils roam and breed
    Fading sunsets, to forget them is the mark of death
    As we break in through the window
    Of mind and greed
    Darkened bridges sink away into the brackishness
    Swirling sin into a rainbow of atrophy
    When the winters help the golden autumns take it’s leave
    Opens passages for vampires
    To suck and feed
    Kareru kareru
    Subetega kareteruno
    Fuyuno sabaku fuyuno sabaku ga hirogaru
    Warerano yoruga kuru warerano yoruga hajimaru
    Karehaga kareru warerano fuyuno sabaku
    Waking insights born of jealousy and faithlessness
    Gave us strength among the gentiles of modernity
    In Fantasia the spirits hide…
    February 16, 2020

    Yet Another GIMP UI Rework (2020 Edition WIP)

    After all these years, I’ve come to the fact that GIMP is now a lost cause. It used to be a ‘Photoshop alternative’, but after years of stagnation it’s now having its butt kicked by even another open source image editor (Krita).

    Nonetheless it’s still one of my all-time favorite editor, mostly due to nostalgia’s sake (I was a well-known tutorial writer back in the 2000s for the GIMP, you know, back when written tutorials were still a thing). And I especially take joy in reworking its UI. This, I do admit, is due to that fact that its interface is so godawful that ANY changes you make to it is an improvement. Whenever I feel bored or depressed, I rework

    I did a GIMP UI rework some odd years ago. The project never finished due to time constraints, as I had other obligations to attend to. But that was when designers were creating UIs on Photoshop (I shivers as I remember those times). I think I blew like a week on that project. Fun times, hah.

    Times had changed. We have dedicated UI design tools these days. I spent like a few hours on Figma already have more progress than I did in a week with the last project. And this was done completely on Linux! Something that was impossible the last time.

    Here’s a quick sneak peak of the current WIP.

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    February 11, 2020

    Oscar 2020

    In case you’ve been living under a rock, you must’ve heard about Parasite, the critically acclaimed movie from Korean director Bong Joon-ho, who just took home the highest honor at the Oscar last night. The first foreign movie to ever take home that gold statue.

    As an Asian, this news made me profoundly proud, but from an academic point of view, I am somewhat disappointed that Parasite won. Don’t get me wrong there, it’s a fantastic movie, and it deserves this title more than any of the Best Picture winners in the last 10 years.

    But this year? I don’t know.

    I’ve always thought the first foreign movie to take home the golden statue for Best Picture would be something along the line of Forrest Gump, or Inception, something that blows everyone’s mind everytime time you rewatch it, something that you remember forever as one of the greatest movie ever made. Parasite, while being an exceptional movie, is definitely not something that you’d remember in a few years time.

    And you can’t use the ‘but there’s no better movie released this year’ to justify its win either.

    Competing against Parasite this year is 1917, the one-take movie that would probably go down in history as one of the greatest masterpieces ever made. Literally everyone who was lucky enough to experience it in the theater confirmed that it is the greatest cinematic experience they have ever had in their entire lives, and that is to put it lightly.

    February 4, 2020

    Home Computing – Centralized

    I recently came across a sale post on facebook for a number of decommissioned Wyse thin clients. The guy was selling it for $20 a piece. Normally I’d just scroll past that but I for some reasons I was feeling especially low-bally that day so I asked, half-jokingly, if he’d be willing to part way with some of them for $10 a piece. To my surprise, he actually said yes. I guess he probably bought a shipment from China thinking it was some kind of SFF workstations. Anyway, long story short, I now have 4 Wyse thin clients that I don’t know what to do with.

    Or do I really?

    I’ve always wanted to get into building a homelab, and this just give me more motivation to do it. While I do have a home ‘lab’, I don’t really have a real home server to put inside it. I had an old Q6600 antique that I use from time to time to watch DIY videos but let’s face it, it can never cut it as a real home server.

    I’m thinking of building a dual xeon server with a healthy amount of RAM as a central server, running Proxmox or ESXi, serving the thin clients that I will be distributing around the house. So far I think I could replace my father’s, mother’s, my wife’s and maybe even my workshop current computer with a simple thin client. Not only does this setup saves a lot of space downstairs, it may actually provide a performance boost for my parents as they’re current using very old computers.

    Xeons are super cheap these days, as do ECC RAM modules. The only pricey part is perhaps, the motherboard.

    (to be continued…)

    February 2, 2020

    Unix bash script to install all Google Fonts to your computer

    Having access to all Google Fonts is crucial for any designer these days, so this script is pretty much essential whenever you make a fresh install of your OS.

    Credit to Quinton Pike on Github

    Install

    curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qrpike/Web-Font-Load/master/install.sh | bash

    Uninstall

    curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qrpike/Web-Font-Load/master/uninstall.sh | bash

    November 27, 2019

    The ‘Prebuilt Hackintosh of 2013’ in 2020

    Current status: SUCCESS! (see update Feb 20 below)

    Yes ladies and gents, I’m talking about the venerable “Dell XPS 8500“.

    Bought it back in ’13 because of that very article. My particular config a 3rd gen Core i7 (3770), 0NW73C motherboard, 8GB of DDR3-1600 (since then upgraded to 16GB) and a GT640 video card.

    I ran Sierra and High Sierra on it for a while, but for the last 2-3 years I only had Windows and Deepin installed. I wanted to put OS X on it once more but was waiting for a proper NVIDIA web driver (it was running a 1050ti), but alas Apple and NVIDIA couldn’t come to an agreement.

    So last week I decided to swap out my Gigabyte 1050ti 4GB for a Gigabyte Aorus RX580 8GB (I’m lucky the Green cards hold their values better than Red’s) in hope of better compatibility. However I’m still having troubles getting even the installer to work.

    Things I tried:

    • Making a vanilla Catalina installer with latest Clover (using this guide)

      Result: got to the Apple logo with progress bar, but as soon as the progress fills up I got a blank black screen.

    • Making a premade Mojave installer with TonyMac UniBeast Mojave

      Result: still got a blank screen but if I wait for it to go to sleep and wake it, I can get to the installer screen with Disk Utility + Install Mojave etc., but clicking on any of the entries will hang the computer.

    Update Jan 30/2020:

    Managed to get Catalina installed using the vanilla install method (with Clover). However this was done with the integrated graphic. Also, WiFi, Bluetooth and Audio aren’t working yet so I need to tinker with it some more when I have the time.

    Update Feb 03/2020: SUCCESS!

    So everything works now, apart from the Wifi/Bluetooth card (Dell DW1703, which is actually an Atheros AR9485 in disguise)I could easily grab a Broadcom card to replace it, but it’s not worth it for me since I could only get them from Aliexpress and they take months to reach where I live (Vietnam). Plus I have no real need for Wifi/BT on a desktop anyway.

    Audio did take a wee bit of work, I had to go into System Preferences to get the icon to show up, and change the layout to 11 in config.plist. But after that it just works beautifully.

    So, to recap. Here’s all the steps that I did:

    1. Download Catalina from the App Store
    2. Put it on a 16GB flash drive by using the /CreateInstallMedia command in the terminal
    3. Install Clover 5103 on the flash drive (and copy some essential kexts while you’re at it, I only had Lilu, WhateverGreen, AppleALC, VirtualSMC)
    4. Pop the flash drive into my XPS 8500 and boot from it (Legacy mode)
    5. On the first screen, fire up Disk Utility and format the 512GB SSD with APFS
    6. Install Catalina to the newly formatted drive, then restart with the flash drive still connected
    7. Upon restart, boot into Clover on the flash drive, and choose to boot from the SSD instead of the installation media, you should be able to get into a fully working version of Catalina running on your computer at this point, albeit the drive is not bootable on its own yet.
    8. Install Clover into the SSD.

    That’s it, that’s as vanilla as it can be for a Clover installation. If everything goes well you should now have a fully functional XPS 8500 hackintosh!

    Update Feb 10, 2020: Successfully added Gigabyte Aorus RX580 8GB to the installation! (Need to disable Legacy OPROM in boot option otherwise you will get a blank screen)

    I will create another post soon with more details

     

    Update Apr 01, 2020:

    Just updated to 10.15.4 without any issue. Which is actually a pretty impressive feat considering that this upgrade broke some users’ Hackintoshes (especially for AMD Users and Intel Skylake and above users)