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Building a sustainable app ecosystem for the Indonesian Police Force (POLRI).
We all have to admit that the Indonesian government is infamous for having poor quality apps and websites. Or at least, if we're discussing about this 5 years ago. User experience (UX) designers will be mad when reporting taxes on our electronic tax filing website, https://efiling.pajak.go.id. https://twitter.com/arieare/status/436649611927638016?s=21&t=cIY0FKj5It0l4zKLdxFODA https://twitter.com/reinhart1010/status/1434219937657024515?s=21&t=cIY0FKj5It0l4zKLdxFODA And of course, we're all familiar with 3-star, or even 1-star, Indonesian government apps for no longer being maintained anymore. Ratings for M-Paspor by Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkumham), Republic of Indonesia Also many citizens of Semarang City (not the Regency) who are still unaware of these 46 apps released by their government? And finally, many of these government apps ended up being Android-exclusive because the developers behind them can't even afford a fresh new Mac and a $99/year Apple Developer Account. On Tuesday, July 5th, 2022, the public screamed for witnessing a launch of another government app. "Come on, we've had enough poor quality apps at Wkwkland. And here's another one to end up in the same 3-star landfill?" There is a gap here. Our government's digital products are still considered by them as the cherry-on-top that makes their chaotic service look beautiful. Has the government taken seriously the role of the digital world in governance? This is not just about the central government, but also every department and local (province, regency, city) government. After all, they really like to release their own applications. Prabu Yudianto, "Logika Pemerintah 4.0: Bikin Aplikasi Banyak, tapi Nggak Terawat" (https://mojok.co/terminal/logika-pemerintah-4-0-bikin-aplikasi-banyak-tapi-nggak-terawat/) So what if I told you that this next government app is not just an app, or even a "superapp" by their own terms? What if I told you that this app is partly a gabutation. Yes, yet an official, high-quality gabutation of Reinhart. Also brought to you by the team behind Bersatu Lawan COVID-19 (BLC-19). Before we continue further, there are two important things that we will need to discuss. First is why many of these apps still suck, and how we overcome these issues in the best, possible way. And while the BLC-19 app itself has been brought down to the same landfill in favor of PeduliLindungi, ministries of the central government are still using our internal, integrated dashboard not just to monitor new cases, but also tracking down future possibilities of the COVID-19 case spikes. This blog post is very long. And indeed, it is now the longest blog post I've ever written in my life. That's why we decided to split this into 6 sections. Check out this site later because, well, I'm still not finished writing it yet. Page 1: Introduction. Page 2: Why do they suck? Page 3: The POLRI's current case of digital service fragmentation. And the point when everyone just wants to be [REDACTED]. Page 4: When the governments want to be [REDACTED], and how we tried to think beyond than just building a superapp. Page 5: My contributions and some trivias. Page 6: Conclusion and what's next. Of course, many of our great ideas are still covered in NDAs, so I also need to filter out these from our blog posts (unless if they are released).
Site and infrastructure updates, January 2023 edition.

So, is this how they really advertise NFTs on Twitter?

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Clarifying Go package names in TDLib's documentation.

New color palettes!

Twitter's removing "Twitter for X" labels? Here's how it just made the platform worse.
Twitter for iPhone. Sounds like a social status and a nightmare for Android phone companies when accidentally tweeting from their iPhones. Well, that's until Elon decided to remove it because he thought it was a waste of space and compute. But we feel removing it just makes the platform worse, especially in terms of spam, automated engagement, and disinformation. How can you tell real vs. automated posts on Twitter? How do you tell a cyborg (real × bot) account? Real quick before the labels are deleted from our devices, I'd like to point out a recycled developer named Madza. You'll notice that his Tweets and Replies are full of recycled Twitter threads. Yeah, they're recycled as you, as a software developer, might already know some of his "interesting facts" even years before his thread. And it's definitely a red flag to see that he very rarely responds to thousands of incoming comments from people he "engaged" with, or should I say, just happen to be algorithmed by Twitter. From that little, "space-wasting" piece of information, we can already see that he always uses a third-party engagement platform named FeedHive. And of course, FeedHive denied our claims that people like him use FeedHive's amazing, AI-powered tools for raising their number of likes, comments, retweets, and followers. Hiding this info from the public just made the platform worse. Now we can't tell which Tweets were made by, for example, a ChatGPT AI instead of real humans. For security reasons... These labels are also a good way of identifying things like misinformation and possible cyber attacks happening on third-party apps. For example, a third-party app accidentally leaked their Twitter API keys, and all the users' Twitter Authorization Session keys, which can be exploited to promote things, such as scams and malvertising. Or in case you still don't understand: let's say that you've authorized a third-party app to Twitter, including posting on behalf of your account. These credentials are stored online and the app was suddenly hacked. In this case, we could help investigate whether things like this could occur, by scanning Tweets for the same info used to mock Android companies for using iPhones. Our plans. Even if stubborn Elon would not listen to our advice, we will still support the inclusion of this tag on many federated social platforms. Mastodon is one of the early adopters for this, and we'll proudly support the inclusion of the same feature in Misskey and Pleroma as well, for security purposes as well as promoting diversity and inclusion of Fediverse clients and apps.