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Articles, drawings, and codes by Nico Prananta, a software developer (iOS and web) and digital artist (for fun!) in Zürich, Switzerland. I'm on Twitter.
Xcode Tips and Tricks
May 31, 2021In this article I will share some tips and tricks to use Xcode that I discussed with fellow Indonesian iOS developers at the last session of…
10 Features You Have to Add in Your Mobile App From The Start
December 15, 2020There are many challenges in developing a mobile app. Slow build times, ridiculous app rejection, and device fragmentation to name a few…
How to track the traffic of views and clones of Github Repository
December 07, 2020Problem I wanted, actually needed, to track the number of times some of our repositories in Github got cloned by others. Fortunately, Github…
Using Non-Apple Mechanical keyboard on Mac Like a Pro
May 19, 2020animal-crossing-keycaps I’ve been using the black Apple keyboard for a long time at home. But recently I was attracted by this gorgeous…
[Dev Note] Using Environment Variables in NextJS Safely and Conveniently
May 05, 2020UPDATE May 11, 2020 As of version 9.4, NextJS finally has proper environment variables support. Simply put the variables in file…
[Dev Note] How to Write Tests for React App Comfortably
April 17, 2020Why write tests As a software developer, it is always exciting to see the code I wrote runs on the desktop browser or on the iPhone/android…
The Manual - A Philosopher's Guide to Life
February 09, 2020Sam Torode wrote this book as his own interpretation of the wisdom of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. The book is so short that I could…
Money Land - Why Thieves & Crooks Now Rule the World & How to Take it Back
February 03, 2020I just finished reading Money Land - Why Thieves & Crooks Now Rule the World & How to Take it Back book. In this book, Oliver Bullough set…
2019 Year In Review
January 28, 2020At the end of 2018, I summarized the year as the year of gaming and traveling for me. In 2019, I traveled as many times as in 2018, but I…
Learning Microcopy from Apple Style Guide
October 20, 2019Few days ago, someone tweeted about this online document from Apple called Apple Style Guide. It’s the first time I heard about it and I’m…
[Dev Note] Testing React component which contains async code
October 06, 2019Scenario Say we need to make a React component that has following requirements: Fetch data from network when it’s first mounted and show the…
WWDC19 - Best WWDC yet (for me)
June 09, 2019This year I’m one of the lucky developers who got the chance to attend Apple WWDC. This was my second WWDC and the first one which I…
Configuring New Mac
May 07, 2019I’ve been thinking of buying a Mac mini to replace my Macbook Pro as my main computer at home. But it turned out I didn’t need to buy since…
Brain Feeding/Poisoning - 2019年4月 5月
May 07, 2019April was a traveling month. We went to Japan, Indonesia, and Singapore. We arrived in Japan at the perfect time when the sakura was…
Brain Feeding/Poisoning - 2019年3月
March 24, 2019Late post of the brain feeding series for March 2019 since I’ve been busy to finish some work before April’s trip to Japan, Indonesia, and…
[Dev Note] Publish private NPM package to private git repo
February 12, 2019Have you heard that github is giving unlimited private repositories to all github users? Thanks, Microsoft! Unlimited private repositories…
Brain Feeding/Poisoning - 2019年2月
February 10, 2019Second month of the year! Time flies. Since the first post for 2019 brain feeding series, I have ✅ finished Valkyrie Chronicles 4 on…
[Dev Note] Edit Git Commit Message and Cypress test crashes with Droneio
February 09, 2019Edit Git Commit Message Few days ago I needed to edit a commit message. If the commit had been the last commit, I could’ve run But it was…
Brain Feeding/Poisoning - 2019年1月
January 08, 2019The first out of (hopefully) 12 blog post series about what I read, listen to, watch, and play every month. Play I’m into three games at…
2018, Year of gaming and Japan
December 31, 20182018 has been an interesting year which can be summarized in three words: travels, plays, and drawing. Looking back, it was a productive…
Type-Safe Localization for React App Using Flow
December 02, 2018The Challenge Switzerland has four national languages: German, French, Italian, and Romansh. The first three languages are the languages…
iOS Shortcuts to download public Instagram photos and videos
November 12, 2018I made this iOS Shortcuts to download public photos and videos from Instagram. Unfortunately, Instagram for iOS does not use iOS Sharing…