Tag: internet

• Let's do more email (14 Dec 2020)
  The privacy advocates have been quite vocally and vehemently discouraging the use of email since almost a decade now but contrary to popular opinion, I strongly believe that despite being old, Email is a wonderful technology and mode of communication with several benefits, and it can optionally be made fully...
• Nobody likes standards anymore, everyone wants to create their own walled gardens (04 Aug 2020)
  Exactly three years ago, Mozilla had made this wonderful blog post in which they solemnly announced a prize of $2 million to whoever comes up with a fully functional decentralized system. And while there have been some entries on the linked award website, none of them can be called fully...
• The gimp, the git and the sacred rules that govern offensive behavior (06 Jul 2019)
  Yesterday, I was reading this heated debate on the GIMP issue tracker which was also perhaps the most discussed topic of the day. Offensive behavior is a very serious and delicate topic, and needs to be handled with care. More importantly, rules should be codified which can objectively determine whether...
• CodeMirror - A simple and efficient code editor component for your web applications (25 Jun 2019)
  I’m a huge fan of simple things in life, things that achieve a lot with minimal efforts or configuration from the user’s end. And whenever I come across such simple things, I like to share it with everyone and that’s what I’m doing now. In my recent flask based web...
• A dark day for consumer rights - Right to repair bill killed in Canada thanks to corporate lobbying (03 May 2019)
  When Linus Torvalds wrote the Linux Kernel in 1991 or Ian Murdock first released the Debian OS in 1993, talking about the “openness” of a PC or the “right to repair it” would have been a laughable affair! 8086 was an open standard then (just as standards should be) and...
• Foxy firefighters and the clash between individual and collective liberalism (02 Feb 2019)
  The biggest speculation in the tech industry these days concern net neutrality and the last week was no different. Whilst I’m happy that TRAI is clear on upholding the net neutrality in my own country, India, the clouds of doom could be clearly seen in USA as the FCC is...