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How to create a map for a multi-day trip with Google Maps Timeline

▲ My Iceland Trip Itinerary created with Google Maps timeline

As long as you keep your phone’s location on, Google Maps will create a map for the locations you go to for each day, called Timeline. However, currently it’s not possible to show the map for, say, a whole week of activities, but only for one day.

To create something like that, you’ll need to go to Google My Maps and create a new map with the data of your timeline. Here’s how to do that.

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Optimizing your MacBook experience

MacOS is the best operating system for desktops, but it still leaves a lot to be desired. Thankfully, there are a lot of third party apps you can install to make your experience so much better.

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LINE Internship Review

In the last year of my college life, I worked at LINE Taiwan as a backend engineer intern for a total of 10 months.

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How to use local images in Hugo

Since Hugo will create a new directory for each of your post, it’s a bit complicated to properly reference your local images.

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Yahoo DevOps Internship Review

In the summer of 2022, which is also the last summer vacation in my college life, I worked at Yahoo as a DevOps intern for 8 weeks in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Go: Slice of Values vs. Slice of Pointers

Have you ever wonder when to use *[]struct and when to use []*struct when developing in Go? Look no further! I’ll explain everything you need to know about this topic in this post.

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Why you need to write unit tests

Before I started my 3rd internship, I have no idea what unit test is, and why is it relevant. But after I’m forced to write unit tests for half a year, I realize how important it is. Apart from making sure your functions do exactly what they’re intended to do, unit tests also provide the following benefits:

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How to sniff packets from wireless networks

To see the full information of the packets, you’ll have to connect to an unencrypted network.

There are multiple methods of achieving this, but not all works unfortunately.

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2022 Internship Hunt (Taiwan)

Offer: Yahoo, LINE
Thank Letter: Google, Amazon Ring, AICS, Numbers
No Response: Microsoft, Dell, Nvidia

▲ 2022 Internships Hunt Gantt, made with Airtable
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