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Translation & Localization are Two Different Things
While reviewing some Localization strings, one of my friends commented that this is translation, and what we’re aiming for is localization. This just make me realize that these are two different things. Localization is not just about translating, but you need to deliver the message. It can be using different wording, phrasing, grammar, terms (to…
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CI/CD For Everyone: Deploy PHP Projects to Any Hosting Platform
CI/CD has been a lifesaver for organization with many projects, big or small. In my case, I have a Laravel project that needs its JavaScript to be built before deployment. There are a lot of options to do this, but this time, I think I found a perfect combination to deploy them with minimum clutter…
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Password Expiration is an Expired Standard
Since this one is lately being talked within my circle and I’ve been super irritated with the password expiration notification email, I’d like to rant about this policy for a bit. Let’s start with that is this policy is all about. Password Expiration Policy is a policy that enforce your user to change the password…
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TIL: `REMOTE_USER` HTTP Header
While proposing Firefly III to support OAuth login, my proposal got rejected because they already support REMOTE_USER from RFC3875. This is very interesting, because I never thought we can utilize authentication via proxy. I’m aware of Authentik’s Proxy Provider, but never thought that there’s standard for this. Especially when you provide the upstream with just…
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Lost in Translation on Software Engineering
Few days ago I found an interesting tweet: the posted code runs faster on Java, rather than Go. Quite interesting, right? So I asked ChatGPT to convert the code to Rust and see if it perform any better: It doesn’t. The code took 4.7 min on release mode, and a whopping 9.93 min on debug…
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Indonesian KTP NIK: A Shower Thought
Indonesia KTP NIK (stands for Nomor Induk Kependudukan ([National] ID number [for]) Kartu Tanda Penduduk (Citizen ID Card)) is a number that assigned to each of Indonesian Citizen. KTP NIK actually contains a few information such as the location where the KTP (National ID Card) is issued, the holder’s birth-assigned sex, and their birthday date.…
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Dear Devs, Try to Learn How to Deploy Your Product to Production!
A few weeks ago, I assisted a team of developers that my friend had hired to work on a project—let’s call them Team Goldilocks (obviously not the real name of the team). Team Goldilocks had been struggling with deploying their software to production, encountering warnings, the app refusing to run, and experiencing problems with databases.…
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Emailing HTML on NextJS
Since NextJS handles both backend and frontend seamlessly, emailing things now become another quest to finish, especially when you need to use template. This blog will be filled with my rants and lessons about this quest of creating my contact page. You can also check my logs for this in issue chez14/christianto.net#13. Previously, in a…
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Modularizing My Workplace’s Admin Panel
I want to show some of what I did in my workplace in the past few months (…April 2021, still technically few months) and since my workplace doesn’t have engineering blog, I want to show it off here. I’m currently working as a Maintenance Manager at PT DNArtworks Indonesia. I generally helps our client to…
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Auto-tagging Git for Package Publishing
As I made several module of my company’s code to be more modular, I have several problems with publishing the package. One of them is publishing certain tag as version. Composer package depends on Git’s tag for determining the version number. GitHub and GitLab API actually provides composer a way to fetch the package as…