NIISe Upgrade and Data Migration Scheduled From 9 to 15 March 2026

Web Development | 08 March 2026

Travellers and members of the public who rely on Malaysia's immigration-related digital services may want to take note of an important update for the coming week. The Home Ministry has announced that the National Immigration Integrated System, better...

Google Is Tightening Customer Match Upload Rules in the Ads API

Web Development | 06 March 2026

Google is making an important change that could quietly break some existing advertising workflows if nobody is paying attention. Starting April 1, 2026, certain developers will no longer be able to upload Customer Match data through the Google Ads AP...

WebAssembly Plugins Are Making Helm (and Kubernetes) Easier to Extend

Web Development | 06 March 2026

Kubernetes has always been powerful, but it's never been "simple." Even something as routine as extending tooling can turn into a small project: build the plugin, package it, ship it, worry about OS differences, CPU architecture, and how safely it ru...

iQIYI Malaysia Is Raising Prices Again From April 2026 (But Only for New Subscribers)

Web Development | 05 March 2026

If you're thinking of signing up for iQIYI in Malaysia, there's a new "subscribe before the deadline" moment coming up. iQIYI says it will increase subscription prices for new customers starting 1 April 2026, while existing subscribers keep paying th...

ShopBack Pay Is Being Switched Off In Malaysia

Web Development | 04 March 2026

If you've been using ShopBack Pay as a checkout option, there's a deadline to take note of: ShopBack Pay will be discontinued in Malaysia starting 25 March. That means the payment option will disappear from the app, and you won't be able to use it fo...

MyTax Is Acting Up Right When Everyone Needs It Most

Web Development | 03 March 2026

If you tried logging into MyTax and felt like you were stuck in an endless loading loop, you are not imagining it. LHDN has acknowledged there is a technical disruption affecting the MyTax portal, and they've said their team is working to restore ser...

Should You Still Learn to Code in 2026?

Web Development | 26 February 2026

This question keeps popping up because the ground under tech has shifted. AI can now generate working code fast enough that it's tempting to think learning to code is like learning to use a map after everyone got GPS.

ChatGPT Go in Malaysia Just Got Cheaper, And That’s Not Something You See Every Day

Web Development | 26 February 2026

OpenAI has quietly adjusted its ChatGPT Go subscription pricing in Malaysia, and surprisingly, it went down instead of up. The Go plan now costs RM24 per month, compared to its previous RM38.99 monthly fee. That's roughly a RM15 drop, which is a pret...

Visual Studio February 2026 Update (18.3)

Web Development | 25 February 2026

The February 2026 Visual Studio update keeps the focus on one thing: helping you ship faster without breaking your flow. It builds on January's editor improvements and adds more practical upgrades across AI help, debugging, testing, and modernization...

Cloudflare Cuts Cold Starts by 10x With Worker Sharding

Web Development | 23 February 2026

If you've ever used a serverless platform and felt that occasional "why did that request suddenly feel slow?" moment, you've brushed up against cold starts. Cloudflare recently shared how it cut Workers cold start delays by roughly 10x, not by shavin...

jQuery 4 is Here, and it’s Basically a 20-Year Birthday Cleanup

Web Development | 23 February 2026

If you've been building for the web long enough, you probably have at least one jQuery story. Maybe it was the first time you made a dropdown behave properly across browsers. Maybe it was the moment you realized you could stop writing ten lines of DO...

npm Just Made Supply Chain Checks Harder to Ignore

Web Development | 22 February 2026

If you build anything serious in JavaScript land, you already know the uncomfortable truth: your app is not just your code. It is also whatever you pulled in from npm last week (and whatever those packages pulled in too). That is why this small-looki...

High-Performance Java Is Having a Moment, and AI Is a Big Reason Why

Web Development | 22 February 2026

For years, the Java conversation felt predictable. It was the "enterprise workhorse" language: reliable, widely deployed, and quietly running critical systems behind the scenes. But the latest numbers suggest something more interesting is happening....

Meta is Pulling the Plug on Messenger.com in April 2026

Web Development | 20 February 2026

If you're the kind of person who keeps Messenger open in a browser tab all day (because it's quick, clean, and doesn't drag you back into the full Facebook experience), there's a change coming that you'll definitely feel.

Summary of CBSS4103 - Decision Support System

Web Development | 19 February 2026

CBSS4103 is essentially a guided tour of how organisations make decisions, why those decisions are often messy (semi-structured or unstructured), and how computer-based systems can help people make better, faster, and more consistent choices. It fram...

JPJ Scraps Daily Queue Limits So Everyone Can Get Served

Web Development | 19 February 2026

If you've ever shown up at a JPJ office, looked at the clock, and thought "Okay, still plenty of time"… only to be told queue numbers are already finished, you're not alone.

Sutter Health is bringing AI decision support directly into the EHR

Web Development | 18 February 2026

Sutter Health is rolling out an AI-powered medical search and decision support tool that sits inside everyday clinician workflows. The idea is simple: when a doctor is in the middle of documenting a visit or making a care decision, they shouldn't hav...

Discord is about to gate “full access” behind age checks

Web Development | 11 February 2026

Discord is joining the growing list of platforms that want a clearer answer to one simple question: are you an adult or a teen? Starting March 2026, Discord says it will roll out its updated teen-safety approach internationally, and that means full a...

A Malaysian Just Sold AI.com to Crypto.com for US$70 Million, and It’s Not Just a “Domain Sale” Story

Web Development | 10 February 2026

Every now and then, a headline comes along that sounds almost unreal until you read the details. This is one of them: a Malaysian entrepreneur has sold the domain AI.com for US$70 million (around RM276 million), and the entire deal was paid in crypto...

A new “memory-safe C/C++ alternative” is trying to get noticed

Web Development | 09 February 2026

For years, the systems-programming world has been stuck in a familiar tug-of-war. C and C++ still power huge parts of the modern stack, but their long-running weakness is also well-known: memory safety bugs that keep showing up in real-world incident...