Freelance Full-Stack & Embedded Systems Engineer and Educator. Based in Jakarta. Pragmatic, resourceful, and community-driven. Passionate about IoT, Open Source, and Non-duality.
Greetings, fellow code-wranglers and digital masochists! It is I, your resident Wong Edan, writing to you from a basement illuminated only by the blue light of three monitors and the faint glow of my own existential dread. Today, we are diving deep—and I mean “bottom of the Mariana Trench” deep—into the absolute madness that is […]
So You Want to Save the Planet With Tech? Let’s Cut the Eco-Bullshit First Oh brilliant, another “sustainable technology” seminar where guys in hemp suits sell you carbon credits while idling their Teslas. Spare me. You’ve heard the buzzwords – “green IT,” “eco-innovation,” “sustainable solutions” – tossed around like recycled confetti at a corporate clown […]
The Ramblings of a Code-Crazed Lunatic: Why Open Source is the Only Way to Live Listen up, you beautiful band of syntax-error-generating primates! Put down that overpriced, proprietary, soul-sucking IDE license for a second and listen to the “Wong Edan” wisdom. They call me crazy, but is it crazy to want tools that don’t treat […]
Wong Edan’s Reality Check: Another Year, Another SDG Tech Jamboree at the UN Hold onto your artisanal lattes, folks. The United Nations is dusting off the same PowerPoint slides, booking more expensive New York City hotel suites than your startup’s entire burn rate, and gathering the usual suspects for the 11th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, […]
Wong Edan’s Reality Check: When Your AI Dreams Meet Physics’ Brick Wall Alright, listen up, silicon dreamers! You’ve been frothing at the mouth about generative AI revolutionizing your spreadsheets while sipping artisanal kombucha in your WeWork coffin. Newsflash: that magical ChatGPT answering your existential questions at 3AM runs on literal tons of electricity. Not fairy […]
The Eternal Game of Breach Hide-and-Seek (And Why You’re Losing) Listen up, cyber-cosplayers and spreadsheet jockeys! Wong Edan here, fresh off reading breach reports denser than my grandma’s congee. You know the drill: some vendor leaks your mom’s dental records, the PR team does the “oopsie” dance for three news cycles, and suddenly you’re explaining […]