Writing

Writings about programming, software architecture, backend development (Go, PHP, PostgreSQL), as well as personal notes and reflections as an independent builder and educator.

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Follow in-depth topic series structured chronologically from Part 1:

🛰 GPS Backend Series — From raw TCP sockets and binary parsing to real-time fleet map dashboards.
🏗 Hijrah Backend Series — A practical journey migrating legacy systems from PHP/Laravel to Go, endpoint by endpoint.
🎨 Hijrah Frontend Series — Reflections on frontend stack migrations, UI libraries, and component designs.
🏢 Building Akordium Lab — Documentation on starting an independent software agency and product studio from scratch.

All articles are available in two languages: Bahasa Indonesia and English.

2026

Oct 14 Decoding Packets: GT06 & Teltonika Protocols
Oct 13 AI-Assisted Development Workflow: Kilo, Claude Code, and Friends
Oct 01 Building Akordium Lab #1: Starting from Scratch That Isn’t Really Scratch
Sep 23 Hijrah Frontend (5): Two Sides of One Building
Sep 23 Hijrah Frontend (4): Two UI Libraries, Two Naming Eras
Sep 23 Hijrah Frontend (3): Type Chaos, Numbers, Empty Strings, and Pages with Different Opinions
Sep 23 Hijrah Frontend (2): The Thin Port and the Inheritance That Boarded
Sep 23 Hijrah Frontend (1): When a Backend Engineer Is Told to Touch the Frontend
Sep 22 Building a TCP Listener for GPS Devices in Go
Sep 10 Hijrah Backend (9): Epilogue, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Then MySQL Again
Sep 10 Hijrah Backend (8): Eighteen Months in Retrospect (Give or Take)
Sep 10 Hijrah Backend (7): From TCP Packets to a Time-Series Database
Sep 10 Hijrah Backend (6): Tidying a Monolith While the Plane Keeps Flying
Sep 10 Hijrah Backend (5): The Query That Said ‘Use My Index’
Sep 10 Hijrah Backend (4): Old Code as an Executable Spec
Sep 10 Hijrah Backend (3): Porting Dozens of GPS Protocol Parsers Without Stopping the Fleet
Sep 10 Hijrah Backend (2): Anatomy of a 15-Second Endpoint
Sep 10 Hijrah Backend (1): Day One, Handed a Legacy of 370+ Endpoints
Sep 08 Understanding GPS Protocols: How Tracker Devices Communicate
Jun 04 Buffalo Means Paper: Learning Language Through Association-Based Translation
May 17 A Stepladder for IT Projects
May 07 Best Practices for Building APIs in Laravel and Go: Notes from a Real Project
Apr 28 Loosening the Rules and What Comes With It
Apr 18 Choosing a Tech Stack: Between Ego and Business
Apr 16 Why One Bug Can Take Three Days
Apr 15 Clean Architecture: From Spaghetti Code to Readable Code
Apr 10 Decision Journal: When It’s Time to Migrate Your Tech Stack
Apr 04 Migrating Legacy PHP to Go: Why, How, and Lessons Learned
Mar 20 Business Process Automation with UiPath RPA: When an Rp8 Billion Difference Starts Feeling Normal
Mar 12 Business Process Automation with UiPath RPA: Start with the Boring Work First

2023

Jul 31 Git Notes: installation, configuration, and examples
Jul 30 VPS Notes: setting up the first VPS that isn’t the first
Jul 24 Online final defense and becoming part of the pandemic graduation cohort
Jul 23 Thesis defense. The ups and downs of the journey to a third degree
May 26 The End of the Wicked: A Rhyme

2019

Jul 05 City of Angels

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