Supposed there is a portable Windows application without an installer and uninstaller, how to create them back? In today’s post, we will explore one way to build a Setup.exe using AutoHotkey (AHK), with additional compression of 7-Zip applied to the Setup.exe …

Recently, I received an email invitation about writing an article on working from home (WFH) amid coronavirus outbreak. As an IT professional who still does much work in a traditional face-to-face way, that led to my interest in the topic, resulting in a presentation I have done privately and finally…

Why open-mindedness is hard; how to free an established mind — Zeitgeists shift. 🌍 For instance, the world was once “flat”. Did you know that smoking was once recommended by doctors? Moreover, 150 years ago, slavery was the norm in the US, but today it would be hard to imagine such cruelty was legal, right? “New opinions are always suspected, and…

How to find piece of mind in the world of investing — The stock market is often associated with greed as seen in the craze of bubbles throughout history. There is one type of investing, however, which may strengthen one’s character — value investing — an investment strategy requiring lots of patience and discipline for which Warren Buffett is famous. “To be…

This February — the month of love — has never been more lonely for many of us under the pandemic. Personally, COVID-19 has popularized remote work in my job, making me stay apart from people most of the time. While I truly love the flexibility working a fully remote job…

There are times when life can seem incredibly difficult, such as during the times of a pandemic. When the worst happens, it’s natural to feel that life will no longer be the same. This post explores: Ways of living and thinking that enable us to not only survive but to…

Today, I would like to talk to you about empathetic communication because I think it is especially important recently due to the pandemic and other reasons too. I will go through it starting with what it is, why we need it and how to achieve it with a number of…

This introductory article is about Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and a major player of which, Ansible, its concepts — control node, managed host, inventory, playbook and modules — along with a quick example using an Ansible command to remediate configuration drift of managed computers, so that a specified service on them is…

For file server admins, this Windows batch script provisions (copies) new folders with exact permissions and content from a specified existing folder (template) based on the information inputted by a user via its command-line interface. …