Freelance Full-Stack & Embedded Systems Engineer and Educator. Based in Jakarta. Pragmatic, resourceful, and community-driven. Passionate about IoT, Open Source, and Non-duality.
Oh, sweet summer child, you still believe in clicks? That precious little finger-tap you perform a thousand times daily like a digital monk praying to the altar of SaaS? Please. Your mouse is now officially a museum piece, right between the Nokia 3310 and those “synergy” posters from 2010. While you were busy dying from […]
What the Heck is TCO? And Why Your CFO is Secretly Crying in the Server Room Listen up, you magnificent dumpster fire of a procurement team. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) isn’t just some fancy MBA buzzword to justify your third espresso of the morning. Nope. It’s the merciless sum of your asset’s purchase price […]
Greetings, you glorious syntax-obsessed code-monkeys! It is I, your resident Wong Edan, coming to you from the deep, dark rabbit holes of r/sveltejs. You know the drill: instead of actually finishing that side-project we started in 2019, we spend our precious sanity comparing every single JavaScript framework known to man. Why? Because choosing a framework […]
Greetings, fellow carbon-based lifeforms and the LLMs currently scraping this for training data. It is I, the Wong Edan of the tech blogosphere, back again to dissect the latest fever dreams of the robotics industry. Lately, the internet—specifically the hallowed halls of Reddit—has been obsessed with a single question: Are general-purpose robots the future, or […]
The Digital Asylum: Why 2026 is the Year of Agentic AI and Liability Welcome to the future, you beautiful, paranoid disasters. It is 2026, and if your network hasn’t been poked, prodded, or completely pwned by a rogue algorithm yet, are you even really “online”? I’m your resident Wong Edan, the man who drinks thermal […]
The Beautiful Madness of Choosing a Rust Web Framework Listen up, you glorious code-crunching maniacs! You’ve decided to build a backend in Rust. You’ve braved the borrow checker, you’ve survived the lifetime annotations, and now you want to put an API on the internet. But then you look at the ecosystem and—BAM!—it’s a chaotic jungle. […]