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Front-end developer 日々はもっと輝いて〜 Blog: https://blog.kenrick95.org/

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Kenrick's Notes

Kenrick's NotesSep 14, 2026

Getting a Driving Licence in Singapore

I recently passed my final test obtained my driving licence in Singapore. In this post, I'll share why I decided to learn to drive and what the process was like. Introduction I grew up in Indonesia, but have been in Singapore since my university days. I never had any chance to learn to drive back...

Kenrick's Notes

Kenrick's NotesJun 1, 2026

Bakebake: Everlasting Matsue

A few weeks ago, I finished watching TV drama series called ばけばけ/Bakebake/The Ghost Writer’s Wife. I first encountered the promotional poster of this drama during my trip to Matsue (Japan 2025). It was a very interesting series! It tells a story loosely based on Lafcadio Hearn's life. That's why the setting of the drama is...

Kenrick's Notes

Kenrick's NotesDec 31, 2025

This year felt so long but also felt like it was short too. Many things happened and it was tough to go on too, but in the end things will turn out fine, hopefully. The year started pretty well, riding on the highs from last year, but I broke up and had to start coping...

Year in reviewJournal

Kenrick's Notes

Kenrick's NotesDec 25, 2025

In a website UX pattern, a dialog is an interruptive piece of element, usually interactive, shown to cover a page while the rest of the page are not interactive. Dialog can be treated like a "page" overlaying the current page. Sometimes, this dialog that got treated like a page gets its own route in the...

dialog routeIkuyo

Kenrick's Notes

Kenrick's NotesDec 18, 2025

So I visited Japan again in the later half of October 2025. Unlike my previous trip in 2024, this trip was kind of booked without much plans in mind. Back when booking the flights, I only knew I wanted to explore Kansai region and maybe visit Tottori & Hokuei, the Detective Conan's author's hometown. But...

Detective ConanHimeji

Kenrick's Notes

Kenrick's NotesJun 1, 2025

Ikuyo: Plan Your Next Trip

It has been many months since I started this side project called Ikuyo (source code in GitHub). I think I'm now relatively satisfied with the feature set to do a write up. Ikuyo is a web application for made to help and collaborate on travels. Features Ikuyo currently offers the following features: Planning activities, accommodations,...

Kenrick's Notes

Kenrick's NotesMar 31, 2025

How to Upgrade yt-dlp Using Winget

Over the years, I keep facing this issue of upgrading yt-dlp using winget. I had to search the resolution over and over with many people pointing to different places, but only this worked for me, so I'm documenting it for myself. Background Winget is a pacakage manager for Windows. yt-dlp is a program to download...

Kenrick's Notes

Kenrick's NotesDec 31, 2024

Last year in 2023 in Review, I picked that the yearly theme would be "Year of Experience". Indeed, this year I experienced a lot of things. Experience came in different forms, from travelling, events, meet ups, and many more. In this post, I'll share several memorable experiences. Coldplay Singapore The first major event of the...

2024Happy new year

Kenrick's Notes

Kenrick's NotesAug 9, 2024

Converting Japanese E-Book in Kindle with Calibre

I have some Japanese e-books that I am reading in my Kindle (mine is Kindle 8th Generation). I use Calibre to manage file format conversion and sending them to Kindle. However, when I send them to my Kindle, I encountered some problems: The furigana embedded in the e-book are shown incorrectly. They are inlined instead...

Kenrick's Notes

Kenrick's NotesJun 2, 2024

Remove Windows’s Invisible US-International Keyboard Layout

On Windows 10 and Windows 11, sometimes "United States-International" keyboard layout will appear in Window's keyboard layout options. This keyboard layout is not what you normally want since most keyboard uses the normal US keyboard layout and not the US-International layout. Keyboard layout list from taskbar showing English (United States) languagewith United States-International keyboard layout...

Keyboard layoutWindows

Kenrick's Notes

Kenrick's NotesMay 3, 2024

I finally went to Japan! It was really nice. I found myself enjoying through both the ups and downs. Many things happened in the planning and execution of the trip. In this post I reflect on what happened, what I enjoyed and not, what I learned, and what I hope to do next. Ideation The...

AnimeArashiyama

Kenrick's Notes

Kenrick's NotesJan 6, 2024

Best Anime I Watched in 2023

When I wrote Seasons of Anime, it was just middle of the year. Since then, I watched a lot more anime titles. I decided to use MyAnimeList to keep track of the titles I've watched and its ratings. Here, I will list some titles that are really exceptional to me in no particular order. Kaguya-sama:...