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When Indonesian governments tried to be the Gojeks of their own…
Alright, those who complained regarding with Jakarta Smart City team and Jabar Digital Service, the government finally built an in-house design and development team for digitalization. Hooray! And now, let’s see how existing government institutions are trying to become the Gojeks of their own. Before we convinced POLRI to have one. Case Study 1: JAKI…
Some plans to reboot Teropong, yet another Fediverse client.
Helping people develop quality Fediverse apps, not just Mastodon apps.
POLRI, meet Gojek.
And you might be asking? How was POLRI before the era of POLRI Super App? The Indonesian Police Force consists of many, many autonomous regions and units, which we can divide by 2 factors: what they do and serve as, as well as where do they operate. Take their headquarters in South Jakarta for example,…
Happy Chinese New Year. Hope You Get Rich!
(#_ )! Oh, didn’t you know that: So, the infamous 恭喜发财 doesn’t mean “happy new year”; it’s “hope you get rich”! It’s not “hope you get lucky” either as “lucky” is 福 (fú) in Chinese and 福 (fuku) in Japanese. So, hope you get rich! If you’re offended with this and just want to say…
Indonesian government apps: Why do they suck?
There are many, many reasons, varying from human resources, management, UI/UX design, testing, operations, maintenance and more. But the biggest problem of all is the government itself! And here are six main things which I’ve summarized from hundreds of today’s government app issues. Reason 1: Rapid outsourcing instead of growing and fostering the development team.…
Some interesting keywords from Google Search Console (and Bing, too!)
You might be asking, how do we post things that gets people from the whole world to find us on Google Search. In fact, over the last 3 months, people click our websites for more than a thousand times! Yes, we used both Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster tools to monitor our site performance,…
Building a sustainable app ecosystem for the Indonesian Police Force (POLRI).
We all have to admit that the Indonesian government is infamous for having poor quality apps and websites. Or at least, if we’re discussing about this 5 years ago. User experience (UX) designers will be mad when reporting taxes on our electronic tax filing website, https://efiling.pajak.go.id. And of course, we’re all familiar with 3-star, or…
Seriously, why (#_ )?
There are still lots of people laughing at us for “(#_ )”. Yes, the company. Even though we justified our reasons for the name (in which we actually snug the Kiloword-Pictogram Equivalence Theorem), there’s also one other reason behind our interests about the name. We really wanted to build a brand that’s as close to…
Some notes about personal beliefs, Christianity, Big Tech, and GAFAM.
Yes, I have been on both pro and anti-GAFAM communities before, yet I’m still respecting people from each sides. However, as I celebrate my 10th anniversary of my journey into numerous worldwide tech communities, those ups and downs have led me into one big conclusion: You cannot be selective on whom would you want to…
The true Power in PowerPoint.
In 2014, someone have proven that PowerPoint is Turing-complete without VBA macros at all. About two years later, the same person attempted to emulate the x86 instruction set, aka. your CPU’s favorite language, in PowerPoint. The truth is, PowerPoint is powerful enough to create actual apps. To my recall, there are some property agency who…
