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Diko Ko

@dikoko.bsky.social

An engineer and producer. An ex-game dev / An aspiring indie game creator. Blog: https://www.invisiblefriends.net

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Time and Again Our last Salle's book club pick was Time and Again by Jack Finney. We picked it because in the afterword of 11/22/63, Stephen King called it a great time-travel novelโ€”even saying he wanted to dedicate...

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03.11.2025 07:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The End of the 2025 Season Now, officially, the baseball season is over. The result wasnโ€™t what I NEVER wanted โ€” the Dodgers won the World Series two years in a row. As a Giants fan, I was really frustrated watching yesterdayโ€™...

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03.11.2025 06:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fleet Week SF 2025 Fleet Week has always been a yearly ritual for my family โ€” though, honestly, not always a smooth one. In 2022, I learned the name of San Franciscoโ€™s true nemesis: Karl the Fog. 2023 was a little bette...

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26.10.2025 06:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NEW: Seventeen World Tour in U.S. Speaking of LAFC โ€” I actually visited their home, BMO Stadium, last Friday. But this time, it wasnโ€™t for a soccer match. It was for the K-pop boy band Seventeen's concert. My daughter had declared th...

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22.10.2025 06:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Earthquakes vs LAFC On a Saturday last month (precisely September 13, 2025), my family headed to Leviโ€™s Stadium โ€” not for a 49ers game or a concert, but for something completely different: an MLS match featuring the San ...

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20.10.2025 06:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Speaking at K-PAI: A 30,000-Foot View of the Online Advertising Ecosystem I recently had the pleasure of speaking at theย K-PAI event, sharingย an architectural overview of the online advertising ecosystemย โ€” from publishers and SSPs to exchanges, DSPs, and advertisers โ€” and h...

Spoke at K-PAI on the architecture of the online advertising ecosystem โ€” how AI/ML now power every layer, from publishers to advertisers. www.invisiblefriends.net/speaking-at-...

#AdTech

17.10.2025 05:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SF Giants 2025 Today marks the saddest day of the year: the final game of the Giantsโ€™ season. Once again, October baseball slips away, and the journey ends here. Last year, I shared how much I enjoyed the $1,000 Fl...

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29.09.2025 05:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Expedition 33 Let me just say it straight. "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" is the best game Iโ€™ve played since "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild." When the game was first announced, it caught attention not jus...

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28.09.2025 04:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Vintage Computer Festival 2025 As I mentioned in my previous post about Ultima IV, my first personal computer was an Apple II+ (replica). The Apple IIe and II GS were my dream machines growing up โ€” the ones I never got to own. So, ...

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15.09.2025 06:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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LA 2025 Last month, we took a summer family trip to Los Angeles. The highlight was a two-day visit to Universal Studios โ€” but we packed a few other stops along the way too. Right before we headed to the stay...

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30.08.2025 21:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ํ† ์Šค ํ”ผํ”Œ: 50์‚ด, ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด๋กœ ์‚ด์•„๋‚จ๋Š” ๋ฒ• 90๋…„๋Œ€ ๊ฒŒ์ž„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด, ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์™€ ์ฐฝ์—…์„ ๊ฑฐ์ณ Toss USA์— ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•˜์‹  Diko๋‹˜์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ ค๋“œ๋ ค์š”.

My story (sorry, only in Korean) toss.tech/article/toss...

28.08.2025 05:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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11/22/63 I just realized I I realized I forgot to update my last Salleโ€™s Book Club read: โ€œ11/22/63.โ€ Many Americans probably recognize the date right away โ€” itโ€™s the day President Kennedy was assassinated. The...

www.invisiblefriends.net/11-22-63/

04.08.2025 05:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ado Hibana World Tour 2025 While Huntrix and the Saja Boys might rule the world music charts, my personal favorite is Ado โ€” a Japanese singer whoโ€™s built a reputation not just for her songs, but for her mystery. Known as a โ€œfac...

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23.07.2025 05:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Proud Daddy Moment Iโ€™ve got a backlog of posts piling up, but this one couldnโ€™t wait. Last week, I visited Washington D.C. for the first time โ€” not for tech, not for work, but for something far more special: my daughte...

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16.06.2025 07:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New Start Itโ€™s been over a month since my last post, and Iโ€™ve had a busy start at my new role with Viva Republica. You might recognize the company better by its flagship service, Tossโ€”South Koreaโ€™s leading fint...

www.invisiblefriends.net/new-start/

14.06.2025 06:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Proud daddy moment.

12.06.2025 03:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Catch on the field 2025.

08.06.2025 02:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Saturday. Could be my last Korean president election.

24.05.2025 23:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€ฆ

22.05.2025 18:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Yep, Iโ€™m back. This is the Bay Area.

17.05.2025 18:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A family trip with my parents. Happy to see we still have days.

17.05.2025 02:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Saturday.

03.05.2025 05:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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May day. An early morning movie.

01.05.2025 00:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wish a sound and safe flightโ€ฆ but it delays as usual..

29.04.2025 18:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tuesday morning. On a business.

29.04.2025 14:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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8 Years Eight years. To be precise, it was seven years and ten months that I spent at Moloco. Last Friday marked my final day there. It became the longest tenure of my careerโ€”longer even than the time I spent...

www.invisiblefriends.net/8-years/

29.04.2025 03:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Unemployed. Day 1.

29.04.2025 00:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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No.3 / 2025.

27.04.2025 23:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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