Having spent 2 months as a volunteer English teacher in Ulaanbaatar (UB) recently and also been on vacation all over Mongolia last Summer, a friend approached me for recommendations on what to do over…
Site Optimizations
PHP 7.1 with OPcache Didn’t had opcache installed previously for some reason Google PageSpeed insights for server response dropped from ~0.8s to 0.2s Caching Added the plugin, WP Super Cache to …
Би монгол хэл сурмаар байна
A summary of the Mongolian language resources I found on the world wide web for self study and future reference. Basic word order in Mongolian can be shown in this acronym: STOP! – Subject Time …
Trans-Siberian Update!
Its been exactly a month since I got back from my sabbatical on the Trans-Siberian. I’ll get around to writing about each destination in the next couple of weeks. Summary What was initially a so…
Trans-Siberian Sabbatical
I’ll be flying off on the 27th of July to begin my overland Trans-Siberian journey across China, Mongolia, Russia and a bonus ending in Helsinki, Finland. This is going to be the most adventurou…
Website’s Launch
Spent the day getting the new website up with most of the infrastructure powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Server / OS: EC2 Amazon Linux AMI Database: MariaDB Cache: Redis File storage: S3 CMS: Wo…
Hello World
WordPress powered personal website to host Alvin’s résumé, portfolio, blog and also serving as a developmental playground.…