Welcome to my home page!
I’m Yii Kuo Chong / 俞國忠 (call me Brandon), and this is a website where I publish my thoughts and knowledge on web and android development, + some other random tech related topics like reverse engineering.
My experience with job hunting in Singapore as a Software Engineer
It’s a dream of a lot of Malaysians to find work in Singapore - mostly due to the 3.5 exchange rate, and I was one of those people. So equipped with 3 years of software development experience, and freshly out of university I went hunting for a job in Singapore for about 4 months. Here are my experience. TLDR: As of March 2025, the Singaporean tech market is really hard to get into, even for locals....
Reverse Engineering Hi-Hive Community
During COVID-19, my university (UTAR) debuted an attendance tracking called Hi-Hive Community. A lecturer would present a QR code, and the students will scan it to take attendance. After using the application for a few years, I noticed that it was too bloated with unnecessary features, it’s not very responsive, and important items are buried in unending levels of menus. Thus, I have the idea of rebuilding the application using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and more modern UI frameworks....