November 2025
November 2025 curated by Alkamauss
Alkamauss • a digital atelier
seeing life through a shifting lens in a quiet corner of the web.
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October 2025
a month of reflections, research, and being present in the moment.
Leave Me Alone
on solitude, privacy, and the exhaustion of living in a world that refuses to let us be alone.
Core Supplements
a personal log of my research and experience with vitamin D, magnesium, and other essential supplements; not medical advice.
On Hate
defining hate as an active and corrosive process.
Losing the Questions
learning to see life not as a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced by letting go of the search.
Opting Out of the Algorithm
on asociality and the irony of social networks that treat their users as commodities rather than individuals.
Digital Garden
on tending a garden as a way of cultivating knowledge and ideas over time, a digital space that grows into a kind of second brain.
An Outsider Inside Myself
the strange feeling of living my own life, yet remembering it as if i were watching someone else's.
September 2025
Meta's latest privacy issues, summer anime finales, round two of vocal synth finds, and unsettling truths about Indonesia's tofu industry.
Anime Resonance
anime with music that stays with me outside the show.
Anime at Its Peak
phenomenal episodes in anime i'm not ready for.
The Virtue of Simplicity
complexity is rewarded for its noise, while simplicity is taken for granted.
A Discipline of Subtraction
perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away.
August 2025
August 2025 curated by Alkamauss
Semantic Versioning
a contract in numbers
Svelte
a sleek language
July 2025
July 2025 curated by Alkamauss
Bash
Bash curated by Alkamauss
Crafting a Minimal SVG-to-Favicon Generator
a technical dive into the process of building a self-contained favicon generator
Blue Period
Blue Period reviewed by Alkamauss
June 2025
June 2025 curated by Alkamauss
Nichijou: My Ordinary Life
Nichijou: My Ordinary Life reviewed by Alkamauss
A Terrible Time to Be a Writer
an effort to try and write something that feels real and honest
Pompo: The Cinéphile
Pompo: The Cinéphile reviewed by Alkamauss
Quarter-Life Renaissance
reframing the 'quarter-life crisis' as an intellectual rebirth focused on craft over career.
The Dream Laptop for Productivity and Portability
My best dream laptop for working while traveling
Open Letter of Admiration to Ado
Thoughts after the Wish concert on the 27th of February in Jakarta
Git LFS Crash Course
A quick introduction to the basics of Git LFS
ARIA: aria-label vs. title attribute
What's the difference, and which one should you use?
Strength From Within
24K gold is valued for its purity, but its strength comes from alloys. similarly, our character is forged not from perfection, but from our flaws and experiences.
RIP Google Domains - Exploring New Digital Homes for Our Domains
In the wake of Alphabet shutting down Google Domains, many of us are looking for alternatives to move our domains to, especially for our dev domains
A Serendipitous Stroke of Events
What a delightful year it has been
Prologue to the Beginning of the End
how the end of a chapter built on external requirements became the prologue to one built on an internal compass.
April 2021
April 2021 curated by Alkamauss
March 2021
March 2021 curated by Alkamauss
Scheduling a Routine - a Disciplinary Process
A take on a disciplinary start at life and in general
February 2021
February 2021 curated by Alkamauss
CSS Framework Is Wasteful
Do you really need a CSS framework? Here's why I think I don't
January 2021
January 2021 curated by Alkamauss
December 2020
December 2020 curated by Alkamauss
November 2020
November 2020 curated by Alkamauss