• Photorealism at Pixar – i’ve watched the movie, the story is touching and yet somehow the first one is still better on story persfective. this article took us to how cars 3 got made, the images are amazing, attention to details are awesome, it is that good, closer to realistic one, and the holygrail for computer graphics, Photorealism, where you almost can’t tell whether this is a CGI or photo.

• Blockchain Explainer – as previously i’ve mentioned, for the past few days i’m into cryptocurrencies, took a quick lession on how future index where made, and learn couple lingo to familiarizing with index world, it’s not an index, but using the same lingo.

• iPhones start slowing down after a year of use, and that’s way too soon – this is a bullshit thing from Apple, the reasons behind it are stupid as stupid does.

• Mozilla screw things up
  the internet praising about how Firefox stand with its user, how they were sworn to protect the internet, but screw their users trust by installing add ons without permission, sure there’s an explanation about it, from configuration failure to flawed system, but it still happened, and users did not happy, and this is their apologia regarding that. on the sidenote, Firefox inscreasingly disappointing, the performance are bad, not long ago i wrote a praising post regarding quantum, it even became my primary browser, but now it has go back to where Firefox used to be, sluggish, CPU and RAM eater and put your computer to no use. at first launch it can open 50 tabs with no issue, now i opened 15 tabs and it’s start to slowing down and eventually i have close couple tab or save it on my OneTab extension and opened later.

• Effective Shell – this is a series of how to use shell effectively, the whole part can be digested even for someone who just know the cli, already watched how Dave worked, indeed, he used the shell effectively.

• 10 school of tought – list of popular thought, Stoicism are probably important one, in muslim teaching there’s a tought called _Qonaah_ meaning accepting with we have and keep working.

• The State of Javascript 2017 – we’re using quite awful lots of nodejs currently to build Jenius’ microservices, sometimes this thing could be a heaven, but lot of time it’s a pain in the ass. i’m not hating nodejs environment or scene, just can’t stand with the ALL THINGS NEW! frameworks, again and again.

• What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL – Yes, ORM could save you a lot of time, but it also kills you, you became more and more forgetting how the SQL works, or sometimes you forgot how to do the simple JOIN queries. ORM just please use it wisely.

• Improving productivity – 2 Years practicing Pomodoro – I use Pomodoro not often, use it when i need to complete task that are time sensitive, for example, writing a blog, or lenghty email. with 25 minutes per session, the words will coming at my fingertip. and sometimes do that when in the development mode, trully efective.

• Cryptocurrencies – i’m into this right now, still not serious enough like other, i need to find out how this things are going and how it used in the real world. many choices, and i since i’m in the bank industry right now, blockchain technology will be use in most of the banks.

This is a rant, Macbook Pro with touchbar are the worst macbook pro ever created by Apple, probably in all the line up of the macbooks, let me break it down, i’ve been using Apple for quite some time, and white macbook is the first macbook i ever bought, didn’t have chance (read: cannot afford) to buy Powerbook earlier. and this time i’m using Macbook Pro with touchbar (late 2016), and it’s a disappointment, yes, couple feature that i loved like its keyboard, it is good, and it was light, comparing to other macbook pros.

But all of it overshadowed by its performance battery and overall speed, the battery life is suck, 3 hour active usage is never achieved, 2.5 hours top, even if you were just browsing around, no video streaming, it still suck up your battery life, the auto contrast stupid as hell. and if you are a developer, you are fucked, you can’t have multiple virtual host or docker running without sacrificing the battery life, i have try to run full blown devs env, and it was run just almost 2 hour on battery. and no, i’m not using just one macbook pro with touchbar, i have tried 3 of them, and still have the same result.

just, wtf Apple.

• 2017 was bad for facebook, 2018 Will Be Worse. – i’ve quit Facebook since 4 years ago, but have to admit that social media are still the place where you can see or feel connected to the world.

• The Collapse of Complex Business Models – Interesting essay, and i suppose the ancient cities that spans accross Europe for example, reach its peak, and crumble, dunno whether it because of how they manage the country or just simply decided to abandon everything.