Aboobacker M K
Aditya Athalye
Arya K.
Divya Mohan
Hariharan Umapathi
Kailash Nadh
Karan Sharma
KC Sivaramakrishnan
Mujeeb Rahman K
Nemo
Pranay Kotasthane
Prashanth N Udupa
Ravi Dwivedi
Saket Choudhary
Shrirang Kahale
Shubham Kumar
Sonal Goyal
Technology is—and ought to be—the /byproduct/ of far more important, powerful, and deep-rooted aspects of organisations — including wholesale societies. The pandemic of technology-solutionism gleefully embraced and amplified by all and sundry makes me believe that people seem to…
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Every so often, I want to avoid opening a website in a browser, for ... reasons.
I’ve often been asked how to expose public and private services running on DigitalOcean droplets/RPis when self hosting apps. Most people don’t have access to a static IP for their RPis. I felt I’d summarize my approach to this in this blog post and hope it’ll be useful for othe…
A few days ago, I was contacted by IT for Change to make a video presentation on importance of Free Software in education to teachers in Hindi. When I was making slides in LibreOffice Impress, I saw some problems with Hindi typing. First, I was not able to set the input language…
Spurred by a conversation with a whip-smart friend and fellow gentlenerd, who unreasonably believed (believes?) they have nothing worth speaking about at the software conferences we like (IN/Clojure, FunctionalConf, local meetups etc).
I've long struggled with the *Technical* Debt metaphor. It was immediately useful when I first heard it. I still think it is useful, albeit as a starting point. The more I worked with software, the more infuriatingly incomplete it started to feel. So I've reframed it as *Softwar…
Not a weighty meandering 300 page Zen dialogue on Motorcycle Maintenance. Merely a meandering blog post in which one contemplates /Quality/ of software products.
What is Snikket? Snikket is a software that can be installed on a server to self-host an xmpp server. Snikket makes some choices for the person installing it on the server and therefore, makes it easy to get the features any XMPP server would usually like to have– audio/video ca…
Before I forget my journey, I hastily record it here. It is a long series of triggers and questions raised in my mind after I met Richard Stallman in 2016 which were responsible for this. I thought on the issues that he raised but didn’t act for years. Occasionally, thoughts abo…
What is Quicksy? Quicksy app logo Quicksy is a chatting app for Android which is available on Google Play Store and F-Droid. Quicksy offers the same convenience, i.e., signup using phone number, as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal. Signal respects users freedom and privacy, but Qui…
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