Mosh, short for “mobile shell”, is a “remote terminal application”. It allows you to access any server on the command-line that you have SSH access to. In contrast to SSH though, mosh is optimized for flaky internet: The connection keeps working even if your WiFi...
We recently noticed a pattern: Members from the engageSPARK tech team meet all over Asia, in a semi ad-hoc fashion. What does that have to do with an ice cream truck? I’ll explain that, and why it’s a good thing, and how we’re going to make this an...
Technical interviews and coding challenges often focus on skills: how fast can you implement a reverse proxy in Golang? Here’s a piece of paper, can you sketch a webapp in Express? Skills are necessary, but only half of the game. And since I believe that...
What’s the biggest challenge a cat (moonlighting as a QA engineer) faces in a startup? Is it finding bugs? Hell no! Can you guess what it is? (drum rolls please…) It’s JUGGLING BALLS! When you’re but a cat who’s trying to juggle many...
tl;dr If you run Freeswitch in Docker and need to forward a RTP port range, you’ll run into problems. You can try using the iptable solution explained here. (Exactly the kind of manual setup mess that container deployment is there to solve.) How do you forward a...
We’ve an exciting new year ahead for engageSPARK, but also the tech community in Cebu. I thought it’s a good time to look back at how 2017 worked out for our tech community efforts, and what we can do better going forward. 2017 was a peculiar year, which...
