02 January 2026

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

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. 

24 February 2024

Journey to Consistently Profitable Trade

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.

13 February 2024

I disconnected from internet and…

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.

05 January 2024

Going slow and mindful

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.

02 January 2024

Thank you WordPress & Happy Birthday Ma.tt

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.



01 January 2024

Happy New Year & First post in 2024!

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.

26 June 2017

Commencing new diet program by Brodibalo

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

19 April 2017

Back to try the new blogger

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)