Choosing iCloud or Google Photos as a backup platform

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Photos and videos are our digital history today, our memory, our moments that maybe never can repeated again. From the day when digital camera exist, we have the habits to record almost every moment in our live, birthday party, holiday, family, friends, colleges. And until today with a phone with our pocket that has good camera, the habits to record moments are more intense. But the more we record, our phone’s storage will be full soon and we need to backup our photos & videos somewhere. I also faced this problems and what I know is there are two easy, seamless, online media backup option right now. Google photos and Apple iCloud.

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Health challenges of working with laptops and how to deal with them

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Nowadays, almost every working vibe around the world have similar view like image above. A person sit down with laptop and next chair fill with other person also with laptop. Working anything they working at, web developing, product designing, replying emails, calculate transactions, zooming call, etc. I’m also doing this almost everyday while working, maybe you too? But do you know that spending too many hours sitting is dangerous to our health?

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Why I move my blog from dev.to to wordpress

Since I was on high school, I wanted to start writing a blog, I started a blog on blogger platform that just randomly write about anything I could think of and sometimes when I kinda lazy to write I copy the content from other blog (that was bad, don’t do that guys). Sadly my blog didn’t workout so I closed my blogger account. Fast forward to last year, when I started my professional career I’m thinking why didn’t I start to write a blog again but this time instead just copying, I share my career stuffs?

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What it is like to work as a software quality assurance?

I’ve been working as a software quality assurance in igloocompany, a smart lock company, for more than 1 year now. I was not really familiar of the title before but I interested in the ecosystem of the smart locks.

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My learning experience with ExpressJS and Mongoose

Last year, I got an offer to join my friend in a company as backend developer. This position actually interesting yet challenging for me because they combine Laravel and JavaScript as the backend logic (ExpressJS and Mongoose). As I never develop production service using JavaScript, I challenge myself to accept the offer and commit to learn the framework.

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HTTP Request Simply Explained

Everybody using internet almost everyday for every purpose for getting, sending, updating, or deleting information. All of that actions used in HTTP, and here they are:

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My way to handle money format input in Laravel

Common usage of website is to handle data about finance, which is the most data is money and it has a format. In Indonesia for example the format is like Rp1.500.000,00. The problem is with default HTML input, it can’t show format like that by default. So how to handle it? At least here’s my may to do that in Laravel based website.

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You can do these on Figma to work faster

Figma became popular these days to design a web/mobile user interface. That’s because Figma gives you more modern and reliable approach when come to performance, cloud storage, and collaboration. Now I wanna share with you how you can improve your designing process to work faster with Figma.

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DataTables tips using Laravel

Datatable is a useful plugin for displaying data to table in more advance way. It provide search, filter, pagination, and sorting from the beginning you use it. But you usually don’t need all of the feature, or want to display button in the table, etc. Now I wanna share some tips in using datatable with Laravel.

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CSS position fixed vs sticky

CSS position: fixed helped me a lot when I want to make an element inside a web to stay when user scrolling the page. But in some cases, maybe I want that element still scroll along like others but can stay in place when I want it to stay. That’s position: sticky will helpful.

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