It’s this time of the year again. I want to say Happy 7th of August everyone! This year has been nothing short of a blessed year. It’s incredible how just 1 year can have so many changes yet it’s only a year. I got the best birthday present ever from my wife. It’s been my dream since I was a kid to be a pilot. It came true for 60 minutes. Thank you wife! For 2 years in a row you gave me something I’ve been passionate for my whole life. I love you. ...

Accidentally I signed up for a BNI account. It was out of necessity to pay for my son’s passport. As a bonus, BNI provides a way for its customers to use their Debit cards online. The cool thing is, they don’t have to input their card number online. In order to transact online, you’d need to request for a Virtual Card Number (VCN) through SMS Banking. Hence you need to enroll for the SMS Banking service. ...

ANJING HILANG Di keluarga kecil kita, Tiro sudah ada bersama kami sejak Februari 2014. Kita mesti nerima kenyataan bahwa hanya 2 tahun 2 bulan Tiro bersama kami. Hari Senin, 4 April 2016 yang lalu, Tiro dititipkan ke Caesar JacO. Sebuah penitipan anjing yang sudah kerap kali kita gunakan di Cluster Mirage, The Green, BSD City. Hari Kamis, 7 April 2016 sewaktu istri saya dalam perjalanan pulang dari bandara menuju BSD, istri saya baru diberitahu bahwa Tiro sudah hilang 2 hari. Spontan hal pertama yang kami lakukan adalah menyebar foto Tiro dan detil kontak kami ke media sosial. ...

Last week, I went for the ocassional time a geek gets to down a few bottles of beer with other geeks. The conversations started with the usual “How are you"s but being geeks it led to various talks about tech. One of it was me telling everyone about Docker. One of the reactions about Docker was why am I willing to complicate myself when the scale isn’t there yet? A valid argument. ...

This is a note to self post. Today I’ve been figuring out to have my own custom Camera Activity. A newbie mistake made the Activity to block the UI when initializing. Here’s the problem and the fix. I started camera.startPreview() at surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder holder). When I moved to surfaceChanged(SurfaceHolder holder, int format, int width, int height), everything turns out as expected. Here’s the full class with an explanation below. To made matters worse, I called camera.startPreview() both when on both methods. The explanation on SurfaceHolder.Callback’s documentation was crystal clear. ...

Monday, 6th April 2015 marked full time commitments of the 3 cofounders of Coral. It’s great to back building a startup, I guess this has been coming for a while, didn’t thought it’ll happen this soon. But it did. That’s us: Andrias Fendri - Twitter Dharma Utomo - Twitter Batista Harahap Happy to be building Coral at Comma ID. The energy here for any startup is refreshing to say the least. ...

I was gonna sleep but I felt I had to write. It’s a full day even from a startup standard. Today I did 100-100 for 2 startups I’m involved at. Been doing it for quite a while these past weeks. Why Two? I never planned to do even 1 just 1 month ago. Now there’s 2. Babego Bite sized happiness in 15 spices marinated pork + Sambal Andaliman It started as an expensive hobby. ...

Since as long as I can remember, I’ve always enjoy building tech. It’s part of my identity. However, more often than not, I enjoyed the tech part more than the product itself. The temptation of any technical founders. I have a confession to make: I hate writing code but I hate not writing code more. As an engineer, naturally you’ll always try to find new ways to solve, enhance and or upgrade the tech part. Admit it. ...

As I’m writing this, there are 3 other blog post drafts I haven’t finished writing. All of which are lengthy blog posts talking about tech, startups and everything in between. The point is: they’re drafts. I always like anything new, that’s my achilles heel. Mostly because I enjoy the alternatives rather than the status quo. Heck, my blog is on Ghost. The new is always trying to see things from different perspective(s). ...