In my last post I wrote about Johann Hari’s book Stolen Focus. The article sparked a really nice discussion over at Hacker News, where a user had this to say: Ideas should be judged on their merits, but based on previous behavior I wouldn’t necessarily trust Johann Hari’s writing out of hand - ie other things in the...

This article is part of my notes from Chapter 8 of Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. You can read other chapter notes as well. Chapter 1: Reliability, Scalability, and Maintainability in Distributed Applications Chapter 2: Data Models and Query Languages Chapter 3: Data Storage and Retrieval...

After a long time It's time for me to get rid of Gmail and transition to a new, more secure e-mail provider. I started using Gmail in 2004, the year of its release. Though it didn't become my primary e-mail application until two years later. You see, in those days, e-mail software was still the main way to process...

After over a month off, I am back at it. I had a lot of life events over the month, namely the birth of my daughter and subsequent stay in the NICU as she got stronger and ready to come home. She is doing phenomenally well and keeping us on our toes as we transition into becoming ‘real’ parents (I could ‘turn off’...

NB: This is the first in a series of posts where I will share my notes on my readings of the minutes of the Social Web Working Group. Future posts to come.