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You can browse the full archive of Yak Shaves by Sudhanshu by month. en-us https://sudhanshuraheja.com/licenses-and-regulatory-approvals-issued-by-bank-indonesia.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/licenses-and-regulatory-approvals-issued-by-bank-indonesia.html Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Every financial license issued by BI, OJK, and Bappebti in Indonesia: banking, payments, insurance, capital markets, lending, gold, crypto, and more. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/qris-payments-in-indonesia-how-it-works-challenges-and-the-future.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/qris-payments-in-indonesia-how-it-works-challenges-and-the-future.html Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT How QRIS actually routes an OFF-US payment across issuers, acquirers, and switches, plus its MDR economics, cross-border rollout, and refund pain points. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/the-eternal-cycle-of-static-site-generators-and-yak-shaving.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/the-eternal-cycle-of-static-site-generators-and-yak-shaving.html Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Why I dropped Hugo and Astro to write my own static site generator in a weekend, again, and what actually made this one stick. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/is-design-an-art-or-science.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/is-design-an-art-or-science.html Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT On Gojek's GoFigure podcast, I argued that owning a product's outcome, not just its interface, changes what design has to mean, drawing on real GoFood decisions. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/a-chance-to-build-startups-within-a-startup.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/a-chance-to-build-startups-within-a-startup.html Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT Why staying in Jakarta instead of chasing the valley made the impact bigger: a lean 20-person team, a $300-to-$100,000 GoFood vendor, and a family move. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/gojek-acquires-leftshift.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/gojek-acquires-leftshift.html Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT How a year of building products together with Gojek, including GoCar in three weeks flat, turned into Leftshift's acquisition and a move from Pune to Bengaluru. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/5-killer-facts-fortune-500.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/5-killer-facts-fortune-500.html Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT The original 2011 post analyzing the Fortune 500's profit and loss figures, restored from the Wayback Machine. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/how-to-decide-which-clients-to-work-with.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/how-to-decide-which-clients-to-work-with.html Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT When client demand outstripped capacity, we built a scoring framework: how important the project was to them, whether it would scale, how ready they were. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/the-start-and-end-of-mbakarma.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/the-start-and-end-of-mbakarma.html Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT Bootstrapped MBAKarma to 8,000 students taking 50,000 tests in six months, then shut it down when seasonal demand and a locked payment gateway ran out the money. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/slicehost-postfix-google-apps.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/slicehost-postfix-google-apps.html Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT The original 2009 fix for outgoing mail on Slicehost with Google Apps, replacing sendmail with postfix, restored from the Wayback Machine. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/20-steps-install-ubuntu-from-usb.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/20-steps-install-ubuntu-from-usb.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT The original 2008 twenty-step guide to a bootable Ubuntu USB drive with syslinux, restored from the Wayback Machine. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/remove-nginx-from-ubuntu-fiesty-fawn.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/remove-nginx-from-ubuntu-fiesty-fawn.html Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT The original 2007 fix for an aptitude bug that broke removing nginx on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, restored from the Wayback Machine. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/customizing-thunderbird-on-linux.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/customizing-thunderbird-on-linux.html Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT The original 2007 Thunderbird config editor tutorial covering reply position, JavaScript in mail, and more, restored from the Wayback Machine. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/india-jumping-over-to-4g.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/india-jumping-over-to-4g.html Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT The original 2007 post on India's telecom lag as NTT DoCoMo ran early 4G field trials, restored from the Wayback Machine. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/ploterati.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/ploterati.html Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT The original 2007 post on Ploterati, a tool that automated ranking Indian blogs by Technorati rank, restored from the Wayback Machine. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/4-simple-steps-atom-feed.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/4-simple-steps-atom-feed.html Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT The original 2007 walkthrough for building a valid ATOM 1.0 feed by hand, restored from the Wayback Machine. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/complete-a-list-of-the-indian-blogosphere.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/complete-a-list-of-the-indian-blogosphere.html Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT The original 2007 A-list of the Indian blogosphere, an Alexa-rank based list of Indian blogs, restored from the Wayback Machine. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/ndtv-streaming-and-indian-news-history.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/ndtv-streaming-and-indian-news-history.html Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT The original 2007 post on NDTV's free streaming video move against rival CNN-IBN, restored from the Wayback Machine. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/booting-linux-off-an-ipod-shuffle.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/booting-linux-off-an-ipod-shuffle.html Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT The original 2007 tutorial on booting Damn Small Linux off an iPod Shuffle, restored from the Wayback Machine. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/pandora-downloader.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/pandora-downloader.html Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT The original 2007 Pandora Downloader post, restored from the Wayback Machine, on building a small C# tool to save Pandora songs before the exploit got patched. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/the-first-step.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/the-first-step.html Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT Quitting a comfortable job, backing it with a GMAT score as a safety net, and pitching a first client the same week Steve Jobs' Stanford speech changed my mind. https://sudhanshuraheja.com/about.html https://sudhanshuraheja.com/about.html Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT COO of GoTo, President of GoTo Financial, Director at GoTo: 20 years building products across payments, food delivery, and financial services in Indonesia.