If you’ve been playing “empires and puzzles” for a while, you’re probably disgusted by seeing this team on rush attack war defense: In wars between competitive (maybe top 100)alliances, you’ll most likely see a consistent defense team across the battlefield: (all limit-broken + fully emblemed) Kalo/Mother North+ Taunter + Alfrike…

Generics are finally available in Golang 1.18! Generics improve the reusability of source code and reduce the redundancy/verbosity of source code. With rich experience with Java generics, I went ahead with a quick test for Golang generics today. The TL;DR; version is: It’s similar with a small drawback. Definitely better…

Follow up on previous analysis with more & deeper thoughts. I’ve asked my alliance members to attack my defense team, and I’ve been experiencing different formations during raids. The short version of the analysis is: my previous conclusion was wrong. I’ll analyze the pros and cons for each formation. Same…

Season 4 of Empires and Puzzles was officially kicked off on March 25th 2021. I used the gems I’ve saved for a few pulls, shooting for one of the featured new hero “Phileas Fogg”, and end up getting one of the non-featured new 5* heroes: “Lepiota” My first impression is…

I pulled Frigg today using Valhalla coin only (no gems committed) and I’d like to share my strategy on how I maximized my chance of getting a particular hero without committing gems. A key concept to introduce here is pseudo-random. Wikipedia does a way better job explaining what it is…

Formations has been added to the game recently: you can configure your raid defense team formation in Hero Academy among four available options: -Standard -Reverse -Double -Reverse double The feature is relatively new and I’ve been testing and analyzing these formations in the past 2 days. There is one obvious…

Over the week I got to work on improving the provisioning process and deployment of a legacy service using: terraform + packer AWS CodeDeploy The setup for migration is fairly simple and the most time-consuming part is actually handling the error happened during instance launch. …

Today I successfully transferred some data on AWS S3 from one account to another. In the process I resolved an encryption related permission issue, which has little information on google given the misleading error message. So I decided to write this down to share with people who need help. Goal Copy…

I had 닭갈비 for the first time in my life in late 2019 and it instantly become my favorite Korean food. Due to the ongoing pandemic I have not been able to go back to the 닭갈비 restaurant but I simply cannot stop thinking about it. …