. . a journey of life . .

Yang kedua, kebetulan salah satu sahabat saya adalah penggiat Instagram. Karena satu dan lain hal, dia sedang mencari tools untuk mendapatkan daftar semua follower dari sebuah akun Instagram. Perlu diketahui bahwa untuk mendapatkan daftar semua follower, prosesnya tidak mudah. Karena sekarang Instagram membatasi jumlah follower yang didisplay.
Karena saya malas plus pelit, saya tidak rela untuk merogoh kantong demi mendapatkan tools berbayar tersebut. Akhirnya saya memulai petualangan untuk mencari dan memodifikasi tools yang ada. 


Outputnya berbentuk .csv yang dapat dibaca dengan mudah menggunakan Excel. Berikut penampakannya:

Setelah kemarin utak-atik Pokemon GO, saya kembali melanjutkan perjalanan di dunia Pokemon dengan mencari bot untuk Pokemon GO.

Kenapa bot?
Sebagai manusia normal, saya dikaruniai sifat yang sangat malas. Saya ingin mendapatkan hasil yang kurang lebih sama tanpa harus berjibaku berlarian ke sana ke mari  di hari yang panas dan hujan deras demi menangkap makhluk-makhluk halus dari dunia Pokemon itu.

HASILNYA?

Saya berhasil menjalankan bot tersebut di PC saya.

Pokemon Go.
Sudah tidak perlu lagi rasanya berpanjang lebar menjelaskan tentang game yang sedang menjadi primadona dunia game saat ini. Saking populernya, game berjenis location-based augmented reality besutan Niantic ini, berhasil mengangkat saham Nintendo naik hingga 120%.

Seiring terus meningkatnya ketenaran Pokemon Go, reaksi positif dan negatif pun berdatangan dari berbagai kalangan. Menkopolhukam kita, Bang Luhut sempat berujar bahwa permainan ini bisa membahayakan keamanan Indonesia. Pihak kepolisian juga turut berpendapat bahwa data dari permainan ini bisa digunakan untuk spionase pihak asing. Untungnya, Wakil Presiden Jusuf Kalla sedikit berbeda pendapat, menurut dia, kekhawatiran beberapa pihak tentang Pokemon Go adalah berlebihan.

Saya sendiri sependapat dengan Pak JK. Bahkan, menurut kakak saya, Handoko Wiyanto, jika Pokemon Go bisa digunakan untuk memata-matai kita, maka sebaliknya, kita juga bisa menggunakan data-data tersebut untuk memata-matai Pokemon Go.

Dari pendapat tersebut, akhirnya dia meluangkan sedikit waktu untuk bersemedi dan akhirnya menemukan bukti yang memperkuat pendapatnya. Ya, kita bisa memata-matai Pokemon Go.

Bagaimana caranya?
Adalah @waishda, seorang programmer bertempat tinggal di Bahrain yang memulai project untuk menganalisa packet data yang diterima dan dikirimkan melalui Pokemon Go. Hasil dari analisa tersebut, dia membuat script untuk memetakan lokasi berbagai pokemon dari suatu titik yang ditentukan.

Project yang diberi nama Pokemon-Go Map ini pun mendapat respon yang amat fantastis dari para programmer lainnya.

Karena penasaran, saya pun turut mencoba Pokemon-Go Map ini, dan inilah hasilnya:

have you ever feel like you are losing yourself, like you don't know where to go, what you want to do, and have no idea about your future?

Well I did.  

In fact, for a several times.

I always think life is just a journey, the decisions we take are the turns along our way.
We all have destinations for this journey, our own dreams, our goals, or our own life purposes, you name it. Some decisions will make us closer to our goal, and some will make us further from it. But truth be told, most of the times, we don't know which one is which.

Same as a normal journey, sometimes we also get lost in life. We are just too confused to move on. We have no idea whether we have to keep going, turn left, turn right, make a u turn, or just to stay where we are. This confusion only gets worse when we know (or we assume that) we are lost, we start to panic and overthink everything.

Most of the people will start to ask people around when they are lost. Hoping the people they meet on their way know the right direction to go. 
Chances are :
A. If they are lucky, they meet those people who know exactly where to go and give them a good guidance. 
B. Or they can meet those people who don't know the direction but being honest and telling them that they don't know.
C. Worst case, if they are unlucky, there are always some people who don't know the direction, but telling guidance like they know everything.

Life is also like that. 
When you ask people around you, what to do in your life, you can get either A, B, or C. 
And obviously, you can't tell the difference between A, B, or C until you actually go to that direction and see the result for yourself.
Unfortunately, in this journey of life, nobody actually knows for sure which direction to go to reach your goal. Unlike a normal journey, there is no map to reach your goal. Simply because the journey has never been done, not by you, not by anyone else.
So the odds to get A is nearly ZERO.

And now you are probably wondering what is my point.
The point is, don't listen to anybody for the important decisions in your life!
You can ask around for opinion, but always believe in yourself. The choices are yours!!
You are the one living with the consequences, not them!!

If, by any chances, you feel like you are losing yourself, the best thing to do is just to stop for a while, and enjoy the scenery while it lasts. 
Most of the time, you are not actually lost, you are in the right track but just unsure that you are. And to make things sound better, our destination seems to change a lot during our journey. :)

Last but not least, whether you are lost or not, since it is a journey, it is always nice to have a good company. =)
And lucky for me, I've got the best company in this chapter of life! =D
I call her "tacan".

cheeeeeeeeeeerz~


"Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination"