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  • NOTICE: MacBook factory reset on March 4 to 7, 2024.

    On Monday, March 4 to Wednesday, March 7, Reinhart will perform a factory reset to his MacBook Air (reinhart-pc3) to reinstall necessary development tools and remove older projects. Sorry for the inconvenience.

  • So, here’s how to win Firefox over in 2024.

    So, here’s how to win Firefox over in 2024.

    I have been a long-time user of Firefox since 2015, especially, when “Firefox Developer Edition” was announced (as a rebrand of Firefox Aurora pre-release channel). Sure, I have used the web browser at some time between 2013 and 2015, before switching to Chrome, then Opera, then (checks notes) Internet Explorer 11. And in 2021, I…

  • I’ve got a 💯 in TOEFL.

    I’ve got a 💯 in TOEFL.

    Yes, you have read it correctly: I’m officially getting a 100 out of 120 in TOEFL iBT. That also means that I’ve secured my English requirements for my future scholarship. If you’d want to get the details: As a reference, the Indonesian LPDP scholarship expects applicants to have at least 65 in TOEFL iBT®, while…

  • An imperative way to build a website!

    (#_ )! This tutorial is definitely inspired by an interesting discussion in choosing a web tech stack in 2024. Of course, Imperative HTML is a more esoteric way of writing websites but still easy to learn for (#- )! Have you ever: HTML itself was primarily based on XML (up to HTML 4.x). And we really hate…

  • So, can we talk about Army of God Conference 2024?

    So, can we talk about Army of God Conference 2024?

    Consider this—the next Army of God Conference hype starts to build up, and we are very, very excited to see that it blatantly copy the aesthetics of a certain K-Pop girl group band? At the same time, we are also see that aespa is moving away from the “narrative” that we, too are investigating. Whether…

  • Site Update: How many share buttons can we fit in here? 🧐👇

    As a part of this monthʼs Site Update (and to celebrate the anniversary of these color-sorted buttons), we redesigned and rearranged the share buttons so it doesnʼt claim too much vertical space on mobile, and so users can skim the colors more efficiently. We also added new share buttons for SMS, which also turns into…

  • GMS bukan pecah, tapi…

    GMS bukan pecah, tapi…

    Percaya atau tidak, situs ini telah dikunjungi sebanyak 2.500 kali sepanjang tahun 2023 karena satu hal: Ketika melihat statistik ini, saya awalnya diam-diam saja, karena sejak awal saya menginginkan situs web ini menjadi situs blog yang merekam lebih banyak hobi-hobi saya dalam dunia IT, daripada membahas seluk-beluk gereja seperti yang dialami oleh Gereja Mawar Sharon.…

  • Site Update: Just amazed with our great SEO without fancy things.

    Site Update: Just amazed with our great SEO without fancy things.

    So, a quick search on “bumi laras selatan” (referring to our recently-released typeface) on Google, Microsoft Bing, and DuckDuckGo tells that our website to be in the Top 1 list. And it came on our main site, reinhart1010.id, instead of blogarchive.reinhart1010.id that works as a WordPress backend. But we didn’t employ fancy SEO tactics, like,…

  • Kebebasan dan Kontrol.

    Banyak orang saat ini mati-matian mempertahankan kebebasannya: Kebebasan untuk berpendapat, kebebasan untuk menyatakan siapa dirinya, kebebasan untuk menjauhkan diri, dan kebebasan untuk melakukan kehendaknya. Ada yang berpendapat, kebebasan itu adalah bebas dari pengaruh alias kontrol dari pihak-pihak lain. Namun, ada yang justru berpendapat kebebasan itu adalah hak kontrol yang kita miliki. Selama ini kita mendengar…

  • DRY-ing Go/Golang’s error handling with underscores.

    The Go Programming Language, also preferred by others as Golang, doesn’t include the concept of Exceptions and try-catch like Java. This is why many functions and libraries built around it are meant to be written like this: If you are writing simple programs with Go, there are many cases that you just don’t put much…

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