Blog index

Build logs, hackathon writeups, and technical notes.

This archive keeps the proof trail visible: what got built, what changed, what was hard, and why the implementation choices mattered.

2026

April 3, 2026

17 min read

4 subposts

Chai Pin Zheng

MetaLearner And The Work Of Reducing Product Friction

How I made MetaLearner, an AI-native supply chain forecasting and planning product built on ERP data, easier to enter and extend through onboarding, charts, redesign work, and handoff.

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March 29, 2026

16 min read

2 subposts

Chai Pin Zheng

Building Beacon in 1 Hour for Student Life Track Hackathon 2026

How I turned messy RC committee forwarding into a believable Telegram dashboard and bot workflow in about an hour.

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2025

July 4, 2025

9 min read

4 subposts

Chai Pin Zheng

The Singapore Armed Forces, OCS, And Learning To Lead

A four-stage account of enlisting on July 4, 2023, surviving BMT, getting into OCS, and eventually leading men as a cyber defence platoon commander.

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