Hi, I'm Alfian.

I build software in Singapore. Here, I write about what I'm learning and keep photographs of places that catch my eye.

Writing

Personal Finance Without Trust

I stopped giving my bank credentials to apps. Then I built the thing I actually wanted — a net worth tracker that lives on my device and never phones home.

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More writing

Seeing What Claude Builds
April 2026
How I fixed the one thing keeping me tethered to my desk — and finally started getting my money's worth out of a Claude Code Max subscription.
Gracefully Shutdown your Go Application
March 2021
A walkthrough on implementing graceful shutdown for Go applications — from signal handling to concurrent cleanup with timeouts. Originally published on Tokopedia Engineering.

Photography

All photos

Singapore skyline and Marina Bay beneath a blue evening sky

A yellow chapel with green doors beside a white building at Objectifs

White Gothic arches and a quiet courtyard at CHIJMES after dark

The illuminated Fullerton Hotel and lights reflected in the Singapore River

A little about me

My work, over the years

I live in Singapore and build software for a living, currently on the messaging team at TikTok. This is my personal corner of the internet: a place for the things I make, learn, and keep coming back to.