Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
Making FluffyChat stories more beautiful!
At the end of 2022, we decided to fix one of UI inconsistencies on FluffyChat. We really hoped that these fixes will eventually come into App Store, Google Play Store, and F-Droid. Just look at the before/after pictures of the app, and the merge request! We also fixed a bug with their implementation of Android’s…
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.…
How not to be an “AI” virtual girlfriend.
(Generated using Stable Diffusion) https://www.kotaku.com.au/2023/01/rip-programmer-euthanizes-his-us1000-1388-ai-vtuber-waifu/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpzp8/a-diy-coder-created-a-virtual-ai-waifu-chatgpt VTuber + Text-to-speech + ChatGPT + Stable Diffusion + Speech-to-text = An ultimately expensive waifu than can’t help more than just being stuck in their (fantasy/digital) world. Oh gosh, one more person already did that, and failed just like what Shift (Reinhart) tried. I love Universe F-1 and Reinhart’s…
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…
Pemulihan gambar diri.
Gambar diri itu penting bagi diri kita semua, karena itulah kita, atau lebih jelasnya, itulah pandangan diri kita berdasarkan pemikiran kita. Dan itulah salah satu celah utama di mana masalah-masalah hidup muncul di dalam diri kita. Dan seringkali kita bertanya: siapa dan apa yang membentuk diriku? Apakah itu hal-hal yang kita punya saat ini? Apakah…
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…
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