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I’m Anas, a software engineer based in Jepara, Indonesia. I build web products, teach robotics occasionally, and write down the things I want to remember.
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anasalqoyyum.devMade in Jepara, Indonesia
Recent writing
Words of encouragement for those who are thinking of giving up
A journal to my past self, but also for anyone who comes to this page.
A clear is not mastery
What Arcaea and CHUNITHM taught me about learning software engineering when AI can produce code ahead of my understanding.
Pi Chat for FFXIV: an AI agent inside a video game
Pi RPC mode, Dalamud, and ImGui, and the plumbing that keeps a coding agent chatting without freezing the game.
Asking an Agent to Migrate My tmux Setup to Herdr
I gave an agent my tmux config and asked it to turn years of terminal muscle memory into a usable Herdr setup.
Taste is the thing people copy
Good taste is not hard to copy; it is hard to originate.
“Has the Journey Been Good?” - An Endwalker Retrospective
Was it worth it to live?
Some Things Just Take Time
Trees take quite a while to grow. If someone planted woods or a palm tree on a piece of land fifty years ago, they created something that cannot be bought off the shelf today.
2025: What a year
This year is truly a year, but thankfully we got through (again)
Embracing a Fun-Driven Development Mindset
Rediscovering Joy in Code.
Review: Kai no Kiseki
I saw Kondo in my dreams last night, he said PEAK IS HERE.
Doing thing and not doing thing
Self reminder to do the thing
Closing up on 2024
This year was a little bit messy, but thankfully we got through
Making Frontend Testing Effective (or even Enjoyable)
Test like users, not internals.
Retrospective: 2023
Goodbye 2023, hello 2024
Life is too short
I think many of us take life for granted.
Types of "luck" and its mechanism
I was fascinated by blue lock chapter 87, where Jinpachi Ego explains the mechanism of luck in the football world
Side projects
yabai-bar
source ↗A native macOS menu-bar workspace indicator for yabai, built without Accessibility or Screen Recording permissions.
pi-dalamud
source ↗A Dalamud plugin and local bridge for talking to a Pi coding agent from Final Fantasy XIV.
ai-drew-toolbar
source ↗A browser extension that copies UI code context for AI coding tools.
msr-archiver
source ↗Archives Arknights soundtracks with metadata, artwork, lyrics, and FLAC conversion.
konasute-autoscener
source ↗An OBS scene switcher for Sound Voltex, built around OBS WebSocket.
Dead Simple Notes
visit ↗A fast, deliberately simple Markdown note-taking app.