Saya suka obrolan ringan seperti ini, apalagi berisi banyak hal yang bisa sangat terkait dengan kehidupan atau perasaan saya. Salah satu edisi podcast dari Thirty Days of Lunch bersama Dedy Vansophi ini sangat menarik untuk disimak.
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Simple Stream
I still have my orangescale.net domain name since I registered it back in 2006, but I do not used it for few years. This blog used that domain name for few years. Rather than having the domain unused, I decided to use it for something simple as simple aggregator.
So, orangescale.net now (well, for now!) has list of posts from this blog (thomasarie.com) and also from my podcast page at anchor.fm. I made it using Sourdust Feed Aggregator. Originally, Sourdust uses Bootstrap for its HTML/CSS, but I decided to redo the interface — still simple! — using Bulma.
My fellow, Zam, also has this kind of aggregator and I subscribe to it. I am thinking of having the similar aggregator, but for now keeping the updates with my daily reading sources I use RSS reader and also blog subscription feature, if available.
Akhirnya, setelah berbulan tidak melakukan perjalanan ke luar kota, jadilah saya ke Jakarta. Kali ini, ada yang berbeda. Perjalanan saya lakukan dengan kendaraan pribadi, sendirian pula. Walaupun sudah ada beberapa tulisan terkait dengan cerita ini, akhirnya saya buat versi audio. Selamat mendengarkan!
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2 Tahun Berhenti Merokok
Satu tahun lagi terlewati masih dalam usaha berhenti merokok. Kalau tahun lalu saya baru satu tahun berhenti merokok, Mei 2020 ini sedikit pencapaian tambahan: dua tahun tanpa rokok.
Tak banyak. yang bisa diceritakan, karena saya rasa efek tanpa rokok masih sama saja dengan satu tahun pertama.
Dan, kemenangan kecil ini saya tidak tulis, tapi saya rekam di salah satu episode podcast saya.
Ayo, satu tahun lagi!
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Podcast: Dua Bulan Work from Home
Pertengahan Mei 2020 ini, tepat dua bulan sejak ikut Work From Home karena pandemi Covid-19. Agak susah sih, tapi dari sekian banyak pilihan, sepertinya memang Work From Home (atau Stay at Home) adalah pilihan paling bijaksana.
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Podcast: Dua Tahun Berhenti Merokok
Saya merokok sudah lama, sejak SMA. Namun satu momen dalam kehidupan saya, dimana saya meniatkan untuk mencoba berhenti merokok. Ternyata bisa. Susah, tapi bisa. Dan, Mei 2020 menjadi bulan dimana tepat dua tahun saya berhenti merokok. Dalam episode ini, saya ingin berbagi tentang proses saya berhenti merokok, sampai apa pelajaran serta efeknya? Ternyata banyak. Selamat menikmati episode ketiga dalam podcast saya ini. Terima kasih.
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macOS Catalina
Kemarin, saya melakukan perbaruan sistem operasi di MacBook Pro saya dari macOS High Sierra ke macOS Catalina. Dengan begitu banyak fitur dan perbaikan yang ditawarkan, sebenarnya tidak terlalu banyak fitur yang saya akhirnya manfaatkan.
Beberapa highlight mengenai yang baru di macOS Catalina bisa dilihat dalam video dibawah ini. Apple juga menyediakan halaman khusus mengenai apa yang ditawarkan oleh sistem operasi versi terbaru mereka.
Saya sendiri saat ini hanya menggunakan dua produk Apple dan saya bukan termasuk yang ingin melengkapi diri dengan produk terbaru dari Apple. MacBook Pro Retina 15″ saya keluaran mid-2012, dan ada sebuah iPad Mini 2 yang tidak mendapatkan dukungan iOS 13. Namun, saya mungkin termasuk yang sebisa mungkin memperbarui aplikasi atau sistem operasi — jika memang masih bisa diperbarui.
Perbaruan sama seperti proses sebelumnya. Sempat saya ragu, apakah saya perlu menunggu terlebih dahulu untuk memperbarui atau langsung saja. Kemungkinan terburuk paling ada beberapa aplikasi yang belum diperbarui jadi tidak dapat digunakan.
Musik, podcast, dan TV
Salah satu perbaruan yang cukup besar ada pada fitur hiburan. Namun, sepertinya tidak ada yang akan saya pakai. Untuk musik — termasuk mendengarkan podcast, saya lebih sering mendengarkan Spotify (dengan berlangganan Spotify Premium). Kalau menonton film atau video, pilihan saya ke Netflix dan YouTube. Bagi saya, layanan yang saya pakai tersebut sudah mencukupi kebutuhan saya.
Photos, Notes, Reminder
Aplikasi Photos, Notes, dan Reminder juga mendapatkan perbaikan. Namun, saya saat ini sudah cukup nyaman dengan menggunakan Google Photos. Saya hampir tidak menyimpan foto — dari kamera ponsel Android — di MacBook. Semua langsung saya unggah ke Google Photos. Untuk pencatatan, saya paling sering masih menggunakan Google Keep. Reminder saya jarang gunakan. Kalaupun perlu reminder paling hanya berupa alarm atau saya buat saja di Google Calendar.
Jadi, semua perbaruan terkait fitur diatas sudah cukup terfasilitasi oleh layanan Google di ponsel Android. Soal sinkronisasi juga tidak ada masalah sama sekali.
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Pi MusicBox
Pi MusicBox: Make Raspberry Pi stream — With Pi MusicBox, you can create a cheap (Sonos-like) standalone streaming music player for Spotify, Google Music, SoundCloud, Webradio, Podcasts and other music from the cloud. Or from your own collection from a device in your network. It won't drain the battery of your phone when playing. The music won't stop if you play a game on your phone.
After upgrading my blog using WordPress 3.0, I was thinking of taking the opportunity to have the multi-site option. Previously, I played with WordPress Multi User. So, I think it would something I'm familiar with. If you're not familiar with WordPress 3.0 features, you can check WordPress Codex first. You can find lots of useful information there. It's a good place to start.
Currently, this blog is already using Multi-Site feature. The setup was easy, but I want to share few things I had during the ‘migration'. By default, this feature is disabled. So, you will see no settings/option under your WordPress Dashboard menus. If you're ready to enable this feature, the first thing you need to do is to modify WordPress configuration file (wp-config.php). Add this line of code into wp-config.php:
define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
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Frekuensi Menulis di Blog dan Mikroblog
Kemarin, Ivan Lanin melontarkan sebuah pertanyaan melalui akun Twitter miliknya:
Apakah mikroblog dan pemutakhiran status membuat orang jadi lbh malas menulis di blog “tradisional”? [tautan]
Gara-gara pertanyaan tersebut, saya tergoda untuk menjawab pertanyaan tersebut dengan lebih panjang, melalui sebuah entri di blog ini. Jawaban saya untuk pertanyaan tersebut melalui akun Twitter saya sepertinya terlalu singkat.
Saya tidak akan menjawab mengenai istilah blog “tradisional”, tapi pemahaman saya terhadap kata ‘tradisional' tersebut adalah blog yang pada umumnya dikenal, sebelum mikroblog berkembang sampai dengan hari ini. Atau mungkin, ketika layanan semacam Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, Foursquare, Koprol, dan lain sebagainya menjadi sangat populer.
As WordPress users, we can contribute to its development in many ways. But, if you do not involve actively in the development, you can get involved by participating in a survey.
This survey will help WordPress developers to determine which features should be on the top priority for WordPress 2.8 (and/or 2.9 and beyond) . If you're WordPress users, it's recommended that you're using WordPress latest stable release: WordPress 2.7. As a WordPress user, here few things I want to have (not in a particular order)
- Sort by column on list-type screens. It will be useful!
- Bulk edit on other screens. If it's similar to bulk edit for entries, that would be great.
- Choose number of items to display on list-type screens (20/50/100). When doing a batch edit, I can edit more posts at a time.
- OpenID in core. Even I'm not using it for my blog, I think it will be useful for those who want to have an OpenID-enabled blog.
- Site closed/maintenance mode. When working on the design, or something is broken, I want to have my blog displays a maintenance screen. Just a simple page, but can be handled from the dashboard.
- Improve category management. Mmm… can I have built-in category thumbnail? :D
- User permissions based on categories. Hey, this should be great for blogs with multiple users!
- Bundle DB backup plugin. Backup is important, so I want to have this. Also, some other DB-related management features e.g. to optimize overhead tables?
- Better custom fields management
- Option to delete inactive plugins.
- More built-in plugins for special purposes like videoblogging or podcast. Can we have podcast plugin like Podpress built-in shipped in the core?
- Built-in search and replace for posts. Actually, there is a plugin for this purpose.
- Additional user profile fields.
- More settings managed from dashboard (web-based). For example to disable/enable Post Revisions. So, the wp-config.php should not need to be edited.
I don't use widget extensively so I'm fine with widget-related features. Oops.. it's a long list. I know, those list is based on my personal preferences. You can have different wishlist. :)
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Podcast, videoblog and Pesta Blogger
Okey, let's make it short. I have started a podcast channel and videoblog few days ago. If you visit my blog, you might have seen in on the sidebar. The reason was pretty simple: I like doing it, and I enjoy it. :)
Just go to my podcast channel and videoblog. About Pesta Blogger 2008 — I will join it! — you can listen to foreign bloggers' comment during their trip to Indonesia few days ago. Some videos are also available.
I will be going to Jakarta this evening using Mandala Airlines with Lala, depart from Adisutjipto International Airport at 5:15 PM. If you subscribe to my blog, you probably did not get updates from my feed. I'm enjoying Twitter very much now.
Have a nice weekend all, and… Jakarta, I'm coming!
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Free Blog Service from thoughts.com
There are many free blog services offered on the internet. Because every blogger has his/her own way on using the service, he/she tends to choose the service that can accomodate their needs.
There is a service called thoughts.com. It's a Free Blog service that's available for everyone. Even it is still in beta period, but it already offers many features like blog creation, media and multimedia sharing — we can share photos, videos, music files or even podcasts. It also has a privacy control settings so that you can decide who can read your blog (public, private, friends or family). Having this rich-feature service, we do not need to worry about paying bandwidth at all.
About community building, there is also an extra feature: discussion forum. If you want to jump into the crowd with many different interest, you can give it a try. For new bloggers, it's a good opportunity to build a readership among friends and other bloggers in the blogosphere. Why is it possible? This service is designed to display contents from its members in many ways e.g. providing some sections like “Featured Photos”, “Recent Blog Posts”, “Random Posts”, Videos, and also “Popular Blog Tags”. Member-submitted contents are well-organized, and it will helps the audience (members or non-members) to enjoy the contents.