December 2025 – Eka Wirya

“Menceraikan” beberapa aktifitas dari smartphone

Dulu ketika kemampuan smartphone semakin meningkat, saya pribadi sangat senang karena satu smartphone ini bisa menggantikan banyak sekali device-device lainnya seperti kamera, music player, kalkulator, dan lain-lain.

Namun semakin ke berumur, saya mulai ada kecenderungan untuk kembali memisahkan beberapa kegiatan dari smartphone.

A simple trick to know how long to bloom your coffee for

One of the common conventions between pour over coffee enthusiasts is that blooming is good for your coffee because it rapidly releases trapped carbon dioxide (CO₂) and fully wets the grounds; this leads to more even extraction, cleaner flavors, and better aroma.

For me personally, when I started brewing pour over coffee at home, I’m not always sure how long I should let the coffee bloom.

LLM Chatbot changed how I consume some videos

I mentioned previously that I’ve now subscribed to Perplexity to be used mainly as an interactive search engine.

I think I found another use of it.

I’ve always wanted to be able to consume information from certain videos (mainly from YouTube) as written text. For example: news related videos, product review videos, etc.