Eltepedia - Leonarce's Journal

New Year, Old Tech. Moving back to Blogger from WordPress

2026-01-02T13:14:00.005+07:00

It seems like the older you get, the less clutter and complexity you choose. I'm back to Blogspot again.

Looks like almost a 10 year round trip, when I saw my old post in 2014 saying that I'll move to WordPress for better journaling tool.

But guess what, Blogspot still exist today, and it's fast, simple, and most importantly sustainable.

WordPress on the other hand, is getting better with new tech and block based editing. But also, it's getting heavier and bloated, and the free one comes with ugly ads now.

A quick check on perplexity suggest that it's still actively maintained by Google, only that it's in silent maintenance mode, which mean, no more fancy new features and more about how this tool/platform can goes against the test of time.

Admittedly, some of my newer wordpress posts are now block based and it's hard to migrate to other platform.

I'm doing similar to Makanmana, moving my contents (well not all since the migration tools doesn't work anymore, but most important one). After all these years, it's memories that matters, not the tech. And I need something stable and can still work for the next 10-20 years since 2007.

Journey to Consistently Profitable Trade

2024-02-24T13:38:00.046+07:00

Since gw scale down Makanmana, the company has seen positive and healthy cashflow. Which mean, sekarang gw lebih banyak waktu untuk self development lagi.

Tahun 2020 lalu, ketika pandemi strike, kita tau gak ada yg bisa dilakukan selain stay at home. Ada temen-temen yang start jualan makanan, groceries online, bikin workshop, whatever paid the bill at that time.

Dan gw juga, karena ga bisa do something outside, akhirnya mencoba hal baru. I ended up belajar trading. Coming from creative background, gw gak bakal kepikiran bakal harus banyak menggunakan otak kiri sekarang. Here’s how it started.

THE BEGINNING

Awalnya mulanya sih dari dunia crypto. Beberapa temen gw udah start duluan di tahun 2008. Karena tergiur dengan embel-embel web 3.0 dan new technology, gw penasaran apa sih yang ditawarin oleh blockchain ini.

I’m in for the tech dan potensial bisnis kedepannya. Seperti biasa, sebelum nyemplung lebih jauh, ya did some research and ended up nyoba shilling beberapa coin.

It was a good bull run back then, making money was easy. Till it’s not easy…

Gw selalu penasaran kenapa chart nya bisa naik turun, kenapa ‘lilin’nya ke atas, kenapa ke bawah, dan saya yang masih culunnya ya ngikutin sinyal trading doank.

Disuruh beli ya beli, disuruh jual ya jual, without any knowledge on risk management and healthy trading mindset. Menang senang, kalah maki admin.

Sampai di suatu titik gw nanya diri sendiri “Kenapa ya hidup gw harus bergantung sama sinyal dia?” and soon I found out “Oh, ternyata ada yang namanya Analysis”.

And down the rabbit hole I was…

Saya masih ingat buku trading pertama yang gw beli dari hasil profit trading di crypto.

CRYPTO WINTER

Admittedly, meskipun sudah mengkomsumsi materi belajar dari banyak banget sumber, crypto was extremely difficult to trade, mostly karena market hampir ga gerak!

Gw yang awalnya ogah trade selain crypto ternyata harus nyerah dan memperkenalkan diri di Forex. Gw pikir, kayanya forex ga seseru Crypto dengan volatilitasnya (I love volatility btw)

Dan ternyata, coming from crypto background yang volatilitasnya luar biasa, I found Gold and forex are much easier to trade. Speaking from an experienced trader yang MC berkali-kali di crypto.

GROWING SMALL ACCOUNT

Tidak seperti trader ataupun temen2 lainnya yang biasanya mulai dengan modal besar, justru saya mulai dengan modal yang sangat kecil. Yes, I’m trading, not investing. I have another account for investing.

Saya percaya bahwa, jika diberi $100 dolar aja belum bisa menghasilkan $1000, apalagi dikasi $10000. Selain itu, melatih kesabaran dan konsistensi sebelum dikasi equity yang jauh lebih besar, karena tentunya berpengaruh ke psikologi.

THE GROWTH

4 years of trading and learning, saya baru pelan-pelan konsisten profit di tahun 2023 akhir. Selama 3 tahun lebih, betapa banyak waktu yang sudah dihabiskan untuk belajar, baik dari youtube, private seminar, underground material (the internet is ultimate resource of knowledge, if you know where to find em).

Dan saya yakin, trading is a personal journey. I can give you signal but everyone has different mindset when it comes to trading.

Proses tidak mengkhianati hasil. It’s a beautiful experience ketika kamu melihat akun mu grow and profitmu pelan-pelan bertambah.

Yes, trading is not a quick rich scheme. Too bad industri ini sudah rusak karena oknum yang menjual janji-janji manis.

WHAT NEXT

My goal this year is to use the profit and join the prop firm through challenge. Buat yang belum tau prop firm, mereka ialah perusahaan yang mendanai trader dengan modal, dan sistem bagi hasil dari profit tersebut.

It started from passion.

Passion Building Makanmana, saya makan dapat duit.
Mudah-mudahan, dengan trading, saya tidur pun dapat duit.

I disconnected from internet and…

2024-02-13T13:47:00.011+07:00

Jadi hari ini gw temenin Lilo buat ngurusin perpanjangan pasportnya.

Perjalanan dari Jerteh ke Kampung Raja makan waktu sejam.

Dan seperti biasa, karena ini short trip imlekan kurang lebih 10 hari, gw ga beli nomor lagi, jadi literally hape gw no mobile data juga.

Tapi, sebelum berangkat gw udah ada beberapa library buku yang rencananya mau gw abisin selama liburan...

This is the list:

Good thing gw pake google play books jadi ga usah bawa buku fisik lagi, karena selain berat, ya repot aja nambah beban bagasi.

Dan, google play books juga enak banget dipake, karena sebelumnya gw pake moon reader+ Pro, offline dan layout epub kadang bisa aneh.

Anyway, buku2 digital ini kalian bisa download dari libgen.is, cari aja format epub, lalu open epub nya menggunakan google play book, otomatis terupload dan sync ke beberapa device sekaligus.

Jadi gw bisa baca di hape, lanjut di tablet. Enaknya di hape karena enteng dipegang, enaknya baca di tablet karena bisa 2 page layout, serasa baca buku beneran.

Anyway, back to topic.

Jadi karena gw nungguin di mobil, tak terasa gw nungguin hampir 2 jam. Biasanya gw udah ngomel abis... tapi ntah kenapa siang tadi gw habisin 2 buku langsung, tanpa interupsi, dan gw bener2 dapat fokusnya.

Dan sepertinya gw akan coba repeat lagi metode ini, set mobile dan wifi off jadi benar2 gak ada gangguan.

Going slow and mindful

2024-01-05T12:14:00.002+07:00

Yang deket ama mungkin udah tau cerita dibalik perusahaan yang gw bangun 5 tahun lalu.

Awal tahun

Akhir tahun

2023 Dinner gathering with ex-makanmana creator and my brother with his team who run CIE.co

Yes, a lot less. I'm leaving Mana Aktiva on 1 Dec 2023 officially, starting Makanmana (makanmana.net) and Eventmana (eventmana.id) again, with my long time partner Bobby and couple of teammate who believe in us.

I'm going bootstrap with small team, less stress, more agile decision and action.

And let's see where 2024 will bring us.

Thank you WordPress & Happy Birthday Ma.tt

2024-01-02T12:13:00.002+07:00

Hard to imagine I've been blogging for 17 years, and that's not including blogging from Blogger since 2005 (my old site eltepedia.blogspot.com)

My primary site (makanmana.net), running WordPress since 1.x and glad I invested in this platform and CMS. It was hacked couple times before I could manage to monetize and moved it to WordPress.com platform. A bit more pricey but then I save all the hassle optimizing performance and focus more on writing instead.

One blog I still regularly follow is Ma.tt, the founder of WordPress, although I guess he's too busy now the site hasn't got regular theme update like it used to.

Anyway, if you're reading this Matt, I just wanna say thank you for all the gift to the open source community. Calypso project seemed impossible in the beginning, and learning curve was steep, but after getting my hands dirty on FSE, this is really something remarkable.

Happy New Year & First post in 2024!

2024-01-01T12:11:00.000+07:00

What a time to be alive. Posting from my mobile, and boy how time flies!

Lots have happened for the past 7 years of blogging absence and I'll post the story gradually again.

phew, feels good.

Commencing new diet program by Brodibalo

2017-06-26T12:09:00.000+07:00

So I've reached out Brodibalo to help me out with diet program. It's online coaching and I'm sceptical, so let's give it a try.

Here's my blueprint.

Body Fat Burning and Muscle Building Meal Plan

Leonarce Training Plan

Resep Masak

Back to try the new blogger

2017-04-19T00:13:00.004+07:00

Seems like they still update this platform, which is nice considering Google. I have so much memories in the Blogger platform and decided not to erased it just yet.

Update: I've moved to WordPress (eltepedia.wordpress.com)

Brastagi 17 Aug 2015 trip

2015-08-20T12:07:00.001+07:00

Little souvenir from Korea

2015-05-16T12:05:00.002+07:00

Hui Hui Birthday

2015-04-25T17:30:00.003+07:00

Or maybe Vaylene's birthday? Looks like she's always in the central of every candle blowing occasion.

Sunday swimming

2015-04-25T11:58:00.001+07:00

The little princess always like swimming since 1 year old. I'm not sure why she's never afraid of water, nonetheless it has become our weekly routine.

2015 Chinese New Year in Medan

2015-04-16T11:53:00.005+07:00

This year, the chinese new year was celebrated in Medan. As usual, there's open house on 2nd day. And we did the tradition thing on 3rd day.

Weekend Brastagi trip with Bobby's family

2015-04-16T11:48:00.001+07:00

This is the first time Vaylene ride a horse, and the first time I get bitten by horse too!

Vaylene Chinese New Year performance in Kinderland

2015-02-27T16:49:00.031+07:00

I'm one proud daddy, my daughter, for the first time—performed so well she's not shy...till she realized the mom saw her :D

Celebrating Vaylene 2nd birthday

2015-01-03T16:48:00.006+07:00

Small and intimate. The little one is surely happy with her present from Phopho... And why TipTop cakes? Cause it's timeless classic delicacy.

Highlight of December Jakarta Trip

2015-01-02T15:51:00.003+07:00

It was originally to visit Hong's friend wedding. We extended couple days and decided to bring Vaylene to Ancol, which turned out not so impressive, and all those jams...

Breakfast in Morrisey

Preparing for the wedding party

Yoko & Sherly wedding, boy I thought Medanese wedding were overrated until I saw this

The third day, went to Ancol

And finally met up with old friends...

The little picasso enjoying her 2nd bday present

2014-12-31T15:49:00.002+07:00

What I’ve seen in Instagram lately…

2014-12-31T15:48:00.001+07:00

Perhaps when everything is beautiful, nothing is beautiful—Stanley Kubrick

Let’s bring back the old stuff again

2014-12-31T15:47:00.000+07:00

It’s the last day of 2014, and I can’t believe my old blogspot has lots of memories goin on. So I decided to bring it back alive again after 5 years of abandoning.

Only this time I’ve migrated the content over to wordpress, and get rid of the 3d related content. Where has all the 5 years gone? I didn’t know since I stopped blogging, but what surprised me indeed was lotsa thing happened so fast.

I’m now a father of just turning 2 daughter! How time flies and I regretted for not documenting those, partly due to social media and technology advancement.

So there, the reason why I picked up blogging again, and guess what…I’ll have another 5 years coming, but this time—it will all be clear.

It's still alive!

2014-12-31T13:01:00.000+07:00

But now it's moved to wordpress for better future.

ROOM short film

2009-06-04T17:25:00.006+07:00

Finally after 3 mths of ~~hard~~work, I finished this short 3D animation.

ROOM is the story about 2 guys struggling for space in a house.

Production time is 3 1/2 months (Feb - June 2009), from concept toward compositing. Music and sound fx are done by Markus Kellow, really nice guy to work with.

This is just a teaser poster. It hasn't been submitted, I'm sorry I'm unable to show it publicly yet.

I hope to be able to show more stuff after submission.

update: It's uploaded to vimeo and you can view it HERE

JPEG compression control in Maya

2009-05-08T21:42:00.002+07:00

By default, the JPEG files that render out of Maya use a %75 quality setting.

There is a way to increase the quality.

You will need to add an environment variable to your Maya.env file.

AW_JPEG_Q_FACTOR = 100;

Where 100 is the quality percentage.

from mayastation

Blend shape attach head to the body

2009-04-28T05:35:00.003+07:00

Usually we duplicate the entire body mesh to create a blend shape for the head, but what if the object is heavy? Having few duplicated object will kill your scene.

The solution is to separate the head (extract), then duplicate and do some blendshapes, keep the first duplicated as the 'base' rather than the original mesh because we can't use original mesh as the target due to vertex order change. As soon as blend shape is ready, create a blend shape to the 'base' so it stores information. Then apply wrap deformer to the original mesh.

I know it's killing the scene by computing the calculation. But the trick here is GO TO INPUT AND CHANGE THE ORDER OF THE WRAP BELOW SKIN CLUSTER. Therefore the wrap deformer is no longer calculated after the skinned deformation. This will dramatically improve performance and resulting cleaner construction history. However another method is by using combine and merge verts, which leave ugly construction history. I prefer to use wrap instead.

squeeze your firefox

2009-04-22T00:13:00.004+07:00

Found that you can actually save some pixels on your navigation bar.

Right click on the home button > Customize, change icon to small, and start dragging your back, forward, refresh, stop, home button, url bar to the side of "help"