13 May 2026
As the Spring 2026 semester comes to a close, I am grateful and satisfied with the amount of content covered during my time in ICS 314: Software Engineering. Getting to know my tablemates, learning PostgreSQL, building my professional persona, and...
Software Engineering Reflection
11 May 2026
Tracking Effort I made my effort estimates using WakaTime, an automated time-tracking tool that helps software engineers like us keep track of how much time we spend coding in an IDE like Visual Studio Code. Along with this tool, I...
Software Engineering Effort Estimation
10 May 2026
I. Introduction Throughout my Computer Science journey at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, I have become increasingly comfortable with using artificial intelligence (AI), with ICS 314 being the class where I spent the most time utilizing AI. There were...
Software Engineering AI
30 Apr 2026
A True Designer I want to make a confession: when learning about design patterns in software engineering, I initially thought they had something to do with patterns that should be implemented on a website. Things like color theory, shapes, and...
Design Patterns
26 Feb 2026
I’m Impressed As a person who has known basic web development skills of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for quite some time now, I could say that working with Bootstrap 5 has become a whole new level in how we design...
Bootstrap 5 HTML CSS
12 Feb 2026
ESLi 101: Introduction to ESLint on VS Code Part I Using ESLint for the first time in VS Code was quite surprising for me. I did not know that even if the code runs perfectly, I was secretly violating several...
ESLint VSCode
29 Jan 2026
Think before you do or something like that You may have heard the saying, either from a friend or your parents, “Think before you speak,” where you consider how your words affect others, checking your tone, and thinking of what...
Questions Answers StackOverflow
22 Jan 2026
Writing Pseudocode to Writing Actual Code I would like to say that it has really been a while (really!) since I was able to compile and write code! I spent most of the past few semesters hand-writing pseudocode and overall...
TypeScript JavaScript Web Development