Adam Noto Hakarsa / Logs

What makes you happy? Eating foods? Traveling? Reading books?

And what makes you sad?

What makes you …in pain?

JK Rowling tried to visualize pain in the form of dementor.

Absorbing every single piece of peace out of you.

I used to think it is weak to talk about our pains. It’s mellow. Emo. Not a sign of a mature adult.

Do you ever think that way?

Take a deep breath.

Pain sure sapped that energy of life. Take a deep breath.

Try to imagine a happy moment in life.

Try to be peaceful.

Just try… 🙂

And if that’s still so painful.

Try to see a happy end.

Try to be peaceful. Just try. A little bit more.

A possibly happy day.

Smiling freely. Only naturally.

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It’s painful to code something without an adequate IDE isn’t it? If you have been searching for the best IDE for Yacc/Lex, I think we faced the same challenges. But just to save your time: for Linux/macOS users: try Vim. I personally use CLion and Xcode, though.

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Hi there! Hi, WordPress. Hi, the World. And Hi, Harvard.

First of all, my name is Adam Notodikromo. Actually, that’s my nom de plume, although, really, I have been hoping that to be my real name. But, “what’s in a name?” right? Juliet rhetorically asked Romeo. She argued further, “that which we call a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet.”

I have a book written under my current-tho-not-legal name. It’s a book about web programming using Rails 6, which I had published in the year COVID-19 was still a fresh thing. It’s still fresh. I used the time otherwise used for commuting, to write a book I hope would be of value to new web engineers interested to learn about Rails. Fortunately, the publisher allowed me to have the book hit the shelf with the name I wanted to be associated the most with.

It seems like, someday, I will have to legally change my name.

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