Apple at WWDC 2020 announced plans to transition Mac computers from Intel to its custom-made Arm processors dubbed Apple Silicon. There have been rumors about this for quite some time, but now it's official - the first Arm-based Macs will hit the shelves in Q4 2020. To a casual observer, this news probably doesn't amount to much. A Mac is still a Mac as long as the software that users interact with stays the same. But to the tech community, this announcement carries a much heavier weight and will have…

I'm a big fan of Ghost. It's everything I'm looking for in a blogging platform - simple, extensible, and very  developer-friendly. My previous website (www.ryandao.net) ran on Ghost as well. I had it deployed to a single EC2 micro instance using a deployment strategy I cooked up myself. It basically used a Git post-commit hook to push the code to the instance and run npm commands to start up the service. The service was kept running using some nanny scripts, ensuring the website stayed up even if the…

Welcome to my new site! This is a new edition of www.ryandao.net that went offline some time last year. I decided to create a new one since a lot of my perspectives have changed since then. Many of the posts in the old blog no longer reflect my technical and real-world views. In this blog I'll mostly write about technical stuff and occasionally opinion pieces on real-world events. All opinions here are my own and don't reflect those of my employer.…