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CareerSeptember 202611 min read

How to Organise a Developer Meetup in an Indonesian City

The venue, the RSVPs that lie, the WhatsApp group that outperforms the event platform, and the run sheet that decides whether anyone comes back.

Software DevelopmentSeptember 202610 min read

Open Source Maintenance from Indonesia: The UTC+7 Timezone Tax

The operating procedure for maintaining an npm package from UTC+7 alongside a day job: batched triage, issue forms that stop unactionable reports, a published response window, and a scope small enough to defend.

CareerSeptember 202611 min read

Indonesia's 2026 Funding Winter: An Engineer's Cost Playbook

The headline fell 70 percent by June and rose 75.6 percent by August. Here is how I read the number, and which technical decisions I actually re-priced.

CareerSeptember 202611 min read

Bootcamp vs Self-Taught for Indonesian Developers in 2026

Two published fees, seven axes that actually differ, and the part AI tooling changed. An honest comparison of the two routes into Indonesian software work.

ProductSeptember 202610 min read

Threads vs X: Where Indonesian Developers Actually Read

Threads publishes 400 million monthly active users. X publishes nothing comparable. What each platform documents, and the UTM measurement that settles it.

SecuritySeptember 202613 min read

UU PDP Compliance Checklist for AI Features in Indonesia

Most compliance checklists were written for databases. None of them has a row for an outbound HTTPS request carrying a customer's words to a model provider in another country.

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