I make things that run on the web (mostly).
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A brilliant technique to (almost) determine a user's OS by testing whether CSS has OS-specific built-in font families. (331)
TL;DR You aren't, but spam is real, and a good alternative doesn't exist at the moment. (848)
Hijacking blocking notifications and DNS unresolved errors (57)
General issues that have made me, and others like me, host or build my own solutions instead of paying for an existing service. (526)
“Institutional sexism” is an abstract concept for many of us. It’s often difficult to put into words.This post appeared on my LinkedIn feed on 8th of March this year. The poster... (813)
A run through some of the tech used for the pandemic (4031)
I really like the book The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christensen. It talks about how over time companies move into higher revenue segments, effectively abandoning the lower ... (1269)
An overview of Reddit's adversarial and seemingly counter-productive changes. (888)
Elastic changed the licence for ElasticSearch disallowing providing it as a service. A lot of people were upset. My reflex was to join in the outrage but I wanted to better understand the motivation behind this decision. My reflex was to join in the outrage but I wanted to better understand the motivation behind this decision. I also wanted to consider the different arguments against it. I bookmarked the HackerNews threads and came back to them only recently. I tried to strip away the emotion and noise. Following is a summary of the different arguments that helped me form a more nuanced understanding of the situation. (2343)
The Star is a popular newspaper in Malaysia.They published a couple of articles about sexual harrassement. In a country where FGM is swept under the rug as being “part of the cu... (163)
Startup founders tend to be an eccentric bunch. It’s almost a pre-requisite for a founder to be a bit delusional about their chances of success — even though most companies fail... (104)
Update: Feb 2021China-Based Executive at U.S. Telecommunications Company Charged with Disrupting Video Meetings Commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre I wonder who that could b... (674)
At what point are you just renting the device? (478)
Cruise announced Origin, their shared autonomous car product/concept. It’s absolutely the type of vehicle I imagine would be part of the daily commute of nearly everyone, eventu... (623)
New York is apparently proposing the creation of “public Venmo” in order to help the “unbanked”.This seems so misguided to me. It just attempts to fix a symptom.Since they don’t... (296)
Once a person earns a specific amount of money they keep earning not because they need it, but because it becomes a scoreboard. It tells them how much better they are than other... (242)
Tech in Asia recently published an article on ecommerce leaders in the region. It was largely sourced from a report by iPrice and AppAnnie.Since it was one of their “premium” ar... (304)
I’m probably naive and I’m definitely inexperienced but insider trading seems to just be blatant.Here’s an announcement by Genting about settlement of the Fox lawsuit.It’s poste... (79)
Apparently Facebook expects to be fined $5b over ‘privacy issues’ which that got me thinking about those ‘privacy issues’.First off, I’m definitely not a Facebook fan. I do have... (1000)
Two things occured to me regarding autonomous weapons.The size of the force would be directly representative of the money investedThat means that war would be directly and only ... (185)
I don’t like it when larger companies use less than honest means to accomplish something that’s basically irrelevant. Not to say that it’s alright to do unethical or illegal thi... (140)