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What Do Thesis Examiner Check Before Read Full Thesis

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:33:45 +0800

As a thesis examiner, I always run a “sneak peek” to get a preview of a thesis. Here are seven things that I usually check before I read a full thesis (and they are always in this order).

Reference list The first thing I check is the reference list. Why? The reference list, to me, is the face of a PhD student. I can judge whether the student is serious or not through the reference list. The reference style has a predictive power of the student’s strength/weakness. If the student can strictly follow an established referencing convention (like APA 7th edition), I can tell that they are hardworking, meticulous and serious. If not, I can predict that reading the thesis will be potentially a headache, which is usually the case.

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Sat, 09 Dec 2023 04:07:05 +0800

23 10 27 1524_checkin

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:24:27 +0800

Hello, I’m running a fever today, so instead of working, I decided to have some fun. I took the opportunity to reprogram this website, allowing me to perform a check-in.

I’ve integrated Mapbox to display a map for checking in, and I manually defined the longitude and latitude. It’s looking pretty cool so far.

23 10 27 1428_webmention Is Up

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:29:00 +0800

I just noticed that the webmention.app website is serving and running using a JavaScript package, and it’s open source. You can find the source code on GitHub by Remy. This means that even if the webmention.app host is down, you can still use the service by hosting it yourself or using the CLI.

Hosting the service was never an option for me, so I decided to use the CLI to replace my current GitHub action jobs. Here’s the modified workflow:

webmention are now 80% implemented

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:41:00 +0000

It has been around two weeks since I started to develop my own HUGO theme and seem like everything goes really smooth.

As you know, I really love and excited about webmention features. So I have been focusing on this stuff to make sure the HTML are parse correctly when I received or sending webmention.

Thanks to webmention.io and php.microformats.io that help me a lot to getting this SSG (Static Site Generator) to have relation functionality like dynamic website but yes, of cause there still lot of limit, but to me this is good enough.

Test bookmark!

Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:13:38 +0800

Hello world | Hello dunia!

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:13:38 +0800

Assalamualaikum dan salam buat semua!

Agak lama dah tak menulis posting baru kat weblog. Semua gara-gara broken API, hugo templating syntax changes dan lain-lain yang menyebabkan aku dah tak boleh generate post baru kat robbinespu.gitlab.io.

So aku setup balik semua dan buat come-back guna domain sendiri serta theme-hugo yang aku create from scratch dengan menggunakan bulma-CSS je sebab ringan dan UI yang simple, kemas dan mudah nak guna.

Theme ni support webmention juga, tapi belum fully setup. So far dah boleh auth, send dan received. Tengah fikir macam-mana nak display balik data-data indieweb nih

Changelog / History

Fri, 25 Jun 2021 21:49:16 +0800

Version 1.0 - 1.2 (Blogger, Drupal and WP)

Look at that! This is my first design for my personal blog. I just use blogger platform + blogspot domain at this time, thus theme a self redesign based on existing basic theme from a blog (I forgot her name, but she are undergrad from UTeM that time).

The reason, I start write a blog is because my lecturer Profesor Madya Dr Hj Mohd Sazali (allahyarham), encourage everyone to wrote. He said it okey if you can’t publish paper or book, but you can write a blog. Make it something useful as amal jariah (benefaction) to everyone who read it.