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Vibe Coding with QWEN Code

I am learning how to do vibe coding right. Vibe coding was a term coined by Andrej Karpathy for doing coding using LLM. And the world splitted with acknowledging it and flatly denying it. There is a compelling reason why vibe coding is dangerous: LLM trained on a snapshot knowledge. Meaning, the updated knowledge might get passed out. This makes LLM produces old syntax that are no longer true. This is dangerous for building web where we are using the volatile Javascript libraries.  LLM have the tendency to halucinate. This means it would generate codes that doesn't work. This is actually the problem with the way LLM work previously. It only has a set of knowledge built on. The RAG also might not correct. They have fixed this with the new LLM specialized code. This was started by Antropic's Claude Code . And then, folks at Google releases the same with Gemini CLI . After that, Alibaba forks the Gemini CLI and built QWEN Code . These are built either run in the project directory...

The Flag

Several people have been targeted by Indonesian authorities for raising the flag from the popular Japanese anime to express discontent with the government. One minister said the act could be considered treason. The Indonesian government should stop repressing freedom of… pic.twitter.com/LMX9qB12Ws — Amnesty International (@amnesty) August 7, 2025 Indonesian are doing protest by waving the flag of Jolly Roger from One Piece anime . The movement was first started by Indonesian truckers who usually put Indonesian flag on their truck in August each year to celebrate Indonesian independence day. In the One Piece story, there are lots of pirates with their own beliefs. They may even have conflicting ideas. However, Indonesian people chose Straw Hat Jolly Roger, the protagonist's flag. The flag of carefree and freedom. The first instance truckers waving the Jolly Roger were because they had troubles waiting days to get into the ferry boat. They felt they have waited too long and the...

Hajime x Kobo - Ride on Time

  I have a soft spot for 80s pop. I really like them singing this song. I wish in 0:41 they split their voice instead using a unison. They did it all over the song making this song a little bit boring. But, hey, I like to listen to this song so I put my review on this.

「MV」mumei

I didn't realize that I haven't review this song when this song already on my common playlist. Yes. This song deserves as a song, not the vtuber song, the real artist song. It is up there in my playlist among other songs. I can only have three in my mind of vtuber original songs that top can be in that playlist: The OG song by Suisei, Stellar Stellar. This song really made the vtuber music on the chart of being a serious songs, not just that Idol-wannabe songs. Moona's High Tide. A good song with rich production specialty of K-Pop with Japanese sensibility and the dance that changed Hololive direction back to Yagoo's dream. LOL. The piano arpeggio really reminds me of Last Night Tonight by KZ Livetune. It really evokes the dreamlike and longing inside. However, the dynamics in the song in the EDM-type of song really made this 4:15 songs feels like a story not repetitive. TKN really knows his stuff. He compose the song with Mumei's voice as instrument and also play...

Gosling'ed

This 26 seconds long video was titled "Lapwing - Face Tracking Add on" is a demonstration of a VRChat plugin. This plugin was used for face tracking. It was created by a French guy. The guy demonstrated the plugin with a girl character named Lapwing. The problem with this demonstration was the expressions generated were so lovely. She evokes cute girlfriend experience. Making people longing for her. Thus, online people felt lost because the short period of this video. Felt like being left lonely for a nonexistant girlfriend. Like Ryan Gosling character in Bladerunner 2049.     

Gawr Gura Graduation

Gawr Gura will graduating from Hololive. People make jokes that 4chan went down because of this graduation. Well, it's a running joke that Gawr Gura usually makes an appearance when something is gonna happen. We joked she streamed on the same time as Niji events. Anyway, the graduation is a foregone conclusion. She rarely streamed. It seems because of her popularity, may be, she is being kept by Cover to stay. It's already five years and it's also a good time for someone moving on from one job to the other. The kayfabe maybe making fans upset and sad. However, looking from job perspective, it's a normal time. I mean 5 year is a long time for working in a company. So, let's get real here. We have the pattern here that the US-based Hololive EN girls are getting graduations. Yagoo said that Cover wants to build an office in the US. This office seems related to business prospect and not the vtuber studio. So, I think it's understandable that the girls having issue...

MAGA Plan First Phase: Tariff War

I have wondered why Warren Buffet took his shares from BYD. And my thinking is that he is an American who loves his country. The escalation of current tariff war between China and the war on Ukraine really makes many American business men in a tough position. And now, we see the tariff war stretched out to the whole world including all of the US allies. A video by Money and Marco defined it better: This war on tariff was actually a first stage of a plan, MAGA plan. Scott Bessent, the current Trump economic advisor was writing the essay about it in The Economist article. You see, the US has made Bretton Woods system  and made currency exchange based on US dollar. To help the world and to leverage US positions, the US put incentive using Marshall Plan . To help the devastated world post-WW2, the US open its market to imports while allowing the said countries  This is okay, because all the world were in low economy status. US needed them to be grown at the level where US could e...

【MV】HELP!! - Kobo Kanaeru

It has been a year this music published on YouTube. This song is a breakthrough song for Kobo. Here's what I think what's great about this song: Groovy bass line with minimalistic drum sets this song as a vocal-based song. You must be blessed with great vocal to compansate this and Kobo nailed it. The long take of melodies sung by Kobo really sets her apart. Her long breath really shines in this. The legato and the right nuggets here and there. The effect, long space of delayed sound, really makes a room and subtly let listener rests for a while. Natori backing vocal fills the void of bassline in vocal. His laidback vocal arrangements integrates well with Kobo's techniques. I don't know why the obsession of Japanese musician with Mathrock arrangements. It would be great at first, but will make them generic overtime. This kind of straighforward music is what they really need. Natori really brings the new old stuff with Japanese sense. Looking forward for his music also.

MV【Break It Down】/ Vestia Zeta

Her soft voice really mixed in well in the song. It has a fuller production than the typical ID songs. It has a nice composition. The song would go to my repeated playlist.

サカナクション / 怪獣 -Music Video-

As someone working for bringing goodness in this corrupted world, this song MV is really so relatable. Especially when everyday is against the next generation and you want to make a difference. There is a probability for people to witchhunt you because you are trying to do something out of norm. People who you want to protect are actually people that can turn their back against you. Sad, how people can be blinded by provocation. The progress halted because they burn the bridges that they should have crossed. And they stay there, poor and miserable. What would you do? Be that agent of change, or just going with the flow? If you want to be spiritual, Jesus nailed to the cross because he wanted to be an agent of change. So, yeah, being a rebel against all odds is actually biblical.  If you want to say leftist, Jesus was the very definition of leftist. He was against the status quo. He introduced laws that were not in line with the power hierarchy. He democratized saving grace and cond...

【Original Song MV】CHRONIC【Anya Melfissa】

I like this song. There I say it before further comments. When I was listening to this song, I thought this would be a Kiara song! The music, the chord progression, and the melody is so Kiara. And then when I looked at the description, it makes sense. The same team who produced Kiara's MIRAGE was handling this song. It's a good song, but this is not what Anya Melfissa song should be. At least that is my deepest thought. This is my personal opinion and I respect the reality. LOL. I have a crush to Anya's voice. I was her voice fan since her Phony cover.  Her nasal voice and the legato comes with it really makes her special. Sure, she would be a genre and not all pop songs for her. However, for that kind of song, she even beat Suisei. I think the best producer for her should be a trance or EDM producer like YUC'e. The local producer probably REDSHiFT and Mardial. It's on her genmate's link. The last Everlasting Knife   雄之助  also has the good sense.  I don't k...

A.I. and the challenges

If you asked me about A.I., I would say that the real problem is about making it ethical. We want a bias A.I., not the straight A.I.. I mean, if you see the data, you would have non-certain privileged skin tone people "problematic" based on the cases. In a scenario where A.I. the first filter, we will have them marginalized. However, we as human have a bias for working towards equality. We boost certain values to make the playing field more equal for all. Well, scientists, be it a STEM and social, it's our job together to shape the best algorithm for A.I. and build that Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) towards equality. A.I. should be a problem of culture as we have been integrating cyber reality into our society. Technology is no longer a problem of math and algorithm, it's also lives and consciousness for many people. As Baudrillard once said, we are now living in a Hyperreality. Let's build our hyperreality on equality.

[MV] Bibir yang Telah Dicuri - JKT48

  Why an international brand like JKT48 produced a Karaoke-like MIDI music?

Tenxi, Naykilla & Jemsii - Garam & Madu (Sakit Dadaku)

  The lyrics are not my favorite. It's more than innuendo, feels like literally a horny thought. But, what I respect from this song is that they mixed Dancehall, especially Downbeat Reggeaton with Koplo. It's a good exploration to introduce a new music in the Indonesia musicscape. The trap beat and the typical dancehall stylized vocal really mixed well together with the song. I wonder why after these years of dancehall dominance, Indonesia just produce this kind of music? 

My Take on Risu's career as a Singer

  Risu made a tweet addressing some of the jab at her career choices in Hololive. The jab was made by people from VTuber shitposting forum in Facebook. I guess the voices make her a little bit uncomfortable so she made the statement in the Twitter. The tweet basically said that she wasn't chosen. Also, as we who followed her would know, she is a sandwitch generation. She paid for her family. It shackled her for investing to her career. I don't want to comment on personal matter as the life of her is her own choices and dilemma. I don't know about her circumstances. I would like to comment from the musical side. I want to comment on why she wasn't picked from my personal view. Let's talk about the singing. Risu chose to have duality on her singing. Although this is a gift, this is not usual in the POP world. Because of that, she did not have a singing guide. She need to learn herself for that. That's why I understand why Studi Suara felt confused when she suddenl...

Do U - Takanashi Kiara (Korean version)

  I really like this version more than the original. The producer patched the music making it more wholly produced. I also like how it was designed more towards K-Pop. What I don't like about the original was the vocal. Kiara has the voice like Kylie Minogue. But, the original sound made the sound distribution uneven. P-san made voice register in the mid-to-high frequency. With the original song towards that sound, I felt like Kiara's voice like nagging. Thankfully, P-san panning the sound more, spreading the sound left and right, making it a full ambience. Kiara now sound more like a musical instrument. My ears can accept her vocal. I am the proponent of vocal diversity. I love world music. Sonically, I think Kiara has that unique tone and as a producer, it comes with the challenge how to compose good music using that unique vocal. In the Korean version, P-san really brings out the vocal more. I wish they could add more layers. But, this is okay because I really do like Do U. ...

Quitting The Rat Race (Take Me To The Beach -- Imagine Dragons x Ado)

  Imagine Dragons made many versions of their new song "Take Me to The Beach". They collab with other artists in different languages based on the collabing artist. The one that get off the ground is the collab with Ado . Some people said the collab probably because of Party Like a Rockstar Podcast showed Ado performance to Jim Runge. With the advent of vtubing industry, Japanese entertainment industry now on the projection of rising up again. Previously, their Copyright law and the CD/DVD/Blueray industry made them lazy. They rather stuck to their domestic market and never considered to cater to international market. That was when K-Pop took over the reign from the Japanese. Don't get me wrong. I like Japanese music. Most of us in the 90s were anime lover. Myself have a favorite anime, the original Macross. I love the show and their takes on war and culture. What an eye opening anime. Macross really shown a different side of imperialism. You don't conquer your enemie...

【Cover】Mass Destruction -P3fes Reload- / Mori Calliope × Pavolia Reine

  I think this is one of the cover song that bested the OG songs. The two original songs: and  are good songs. But, the cover mixes more hard and the rap is more nuance than the OG songs. Btw, OG is a good song also. Farhan Sarasin as the instrumentalist goes hard to make the song like the legendary Doom Eternal OST, Mick Gordon's "The Only Thing They Fear is You"  which to me elevates the song hard. The song composition feels like the early Nu Metal sound of Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Linkin Park, which makes it sounds familiar. The OG songs plays a little bit softer which to me a little bit off. I don't know, may be I just being used to listen to hard core electric music stuffs. One thing that stands out, Calli and Reine has the better style in rapping than the original. The original feels like a white rapper, sorry for the derogatary words in rap. Well, they all ain't black, but Calli and Reine rap has better sounding than the original. I don't want to bash the...

WE PRAY - Coldplay, Elyanna, Little Simz, Burna Boy, TINI

  The song is about how we fight for the better world and winning the battle inside of our mind. The most respect for me is coming from a line: ... And so we pray we'll be singing Baraye... Baraye is a song about women's right. No, it's a song about extreme feminism. It's a song about to view a women as humane as a man. I didn't know the song nor the history behind it. Reading through the Internet I was fascinated by it. It's amazing how Coldplay can attract the world to the issue just by that one line. This makes me respect Coldplay more.

【MV】Switch - Kanaia Asa JKT48V

  From all of the three members of the JKT48V, Kana is the least member I watched. I didn't even know about her stream and stuff. However, this song is really the most impressive song out of the three of them in the term of the vocal. The vocal sound is very humane which goes well with me. I saw Sagi as the vocal director. No wonder it has the best vocal harmony. It gives its own flavor, a different flavor from the original JKT48. I kind of like it. But, the mixing is pale in comparison. I don't see any instrumentalist in the credits. Hmm... seems she was using the same music as AKB48 and JKT48 version. Too bad, IMHO. I have a dream, someday my ATH M50 headphone can be used. It was retired since Disc Tarra and Pondok Pujian shutted down. I have no source of good music and since Covid-19, I can no longer asked my friends who travels to Japan for buying me a CD. Kana with this kind of Acid Trance music really a good mix and the song really-really making me hope for good music. ...