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• Apple letter about the iPhone battery – it’s not that i hate Apple, none of my opinion matters anyway, but i feel like Apple is downgrading itself in terms of vision, quality, security, smartness. i even ranting about my Macbook Pro (Buzzfeed style title).

• Beneath Another Sky: a historian’s revisionist, global take on migration and identity – As an individu, we probably think that we are much better than anyone else, combine that with the same culture, background, religion, etc and you became a group of people, and will likely hate other group that have different background, culture, skin color, religion. and mob mentality came in. it’s easy to spot on indonesian society, different opinion and you will have a judgement or worst case, killed.

• The Verge illustration through the year – Awesome illustration from the verge illustrator.

• Effective Engineer – an opinion how to be an effective engineer.

• Google Maps’ Moat – Google Maps’ Fascinating, yet scary detail.

• Eating Too Much Rice Almost Sank the Japanese Navy One doctor’s fight against the nutritional woes of a nation – the story about one doctor who fight against beriberi desease that affecting Japanese navy.

• Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for – an old article, but still reflecting today’s condition, after Macbook Pro with Touchbar came up, the Macbook Pro lineup are not as good as their predecessor.

• NIST’s new password rules – an old read, but one of the fine rule how to create password guide for your users.

• Just HODL! – couple new lingo from crytocurrencies market, and how the users using it in the chat or forums, some of it hillarious (i have private group to discuss crypto market).

• Open Railway Map – a crowdsourcing data for railway all over the world.

• 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.