Happy new year!

I love podcast, when podcast got introduced at macworld, people start flocking in and many listener, there’s a lot of channel/network that provide variety of podcast genre, from news, comedy, dramedy, tech, productivty, etc. here are couple podcast that i listened quite often.

• Accidental Tech Podcast
  The podcast created by Marco Arment which his blog i subscribed on my feed reader. this podcast will rumbling about tech, sometime about developments.

• The Ruby Rogues
  This one self explanatory, tells about Ruby development, sometimes there’s panelist and will talk about how ruby world currently, and tips also trick how things developed, and of course the guest, i loved the episode about string and about Peter Cooper

• Adventures In Finance
  I like the finance and all that kinda things, i just loved to see how a company, countries and even personal build and manage their financial life, and how to go thru, and this podcast is kinda like that, with recent development like cryptocurrencies etc.

• Freelancer
  This podcast is on the same network with Ruby Rouges, it’s about freelancing and the likes.

• Rework
  This podcast hosted by DHH (creator of Ruby on Rails) and Jason Fried, it tell about development, tools, basecamp (their product) and how they run their business.

other mention:

• TED Talks Daily
• Cynical Developer
• Why’d You Push That Button? also The Vergecast from The Verge
• Serial
• Freakonomics
• Radiolab
• StarTalk

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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.