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Grammar inspired software: naming things

Grammar inspired software: naming things

Writing software is 0.5 art. See, almost anything that allows you to express your creativity is essentially an art form. I personally see software as a canvas for the mind, which makes me an artisan. Since a couple of weeks, an idea has occupied my mind. It’s about grammar inspired software and naming things. I’ll ink in a few thoughts here. Read on. More

ELLO is crap BUT here are a few INVITES anyway

ELLO is crap BUT here are a few INVITES anyway

Ello has clearly marketed their way to 35,000 signups an hour and ‘press love’. I got an invite a few hours ago and I am, as usual, fulfilling my duty of informing the public: move on folks, there’s nothing special here. More

An idea for a lightweight PHP CMS with .txt files and query strings

An idea for a lightweight PHP CMS with .txt files and query strings

Laziness often helps you figure out funny ways to solve problems. Put it this way. I’ve found a hack to create a lightweight CMS in PHP that uses .txt files and query strings. Yes, you publish through a URL, and the persistence happens inside a text file. Not a MySQL database. Crazy! It works. More

A few thoughts on the Whatsapp acquisition

A few thoughts on the Whatsapp acquisition

Two days ago, we witnessed the second largest tech acquisition of all time, valued at $19.0 billion USD. Facebook acquired Whatsapp. What? A stunner, of the sorts that literally shocked the geek-o-sphere in all dimensions. Here are my thoughts about it. More

Why Flappy Bird is strikingly similar to Piou Piou?

Why Flappy Bird is strikingly similar to Piou Piou?

A fan sent in us a link of a site that claimed Flappy Bird to be a ‘carbon’ copy of a 2011 Android game Piou Piou. I set out to investigate this and the results are discussed in this short blog post. The truth is, it is definitely copied, or at least inspired to a large extent. More

What is Bitcoin and Why is it a Bubble?

What is Bitcoin and Why is it a Bubble?

Simply put, Bitcoin is a virtual currency. Through Bitcoin, users are able to transfer Bitcoins anonymously by the use of a main ledger called the Blockchain. With the use of this system, users are able to move Bitcoin from one user to another and remain anonymous. More

5 Cool Applications of Geofencing

5 Cool Applications of Geofencing

Your cell phone starts beeping. You just received a text message. The message says that your child has left school and gives you a link to track his or her current location. More

Will Tumblr’s Adult Content Put Yahoo! In A Tight Spot?

Will Tumblr’s Adult Content Put Yahoo! In A Tight Spot?

A week ago, Yahoo!’s CEO Marissa Mayer confirmed that the rumors were true: Yahoo! had in fact purchased the microblogging site Tumblr for the tidy sum of $1.1 billion. The acquisition is the next strike in the perennial arms race between Google and More

Digital Caveman

Digital Caveman

This article discusses the idea that the ancient human impulse to learn and take risks is still at the core of technological progress as we know it today. More