Technical projects, experiments, travel stories and practical lessons from building things.
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Why I left WhatsApp for Signal, what five years without it did for my privacy and focus, and the trade-offs when friends and family stay behind.
In today’s world, it’s almost impossible to imagine life without WhatsApp. The popular messaging app has become an integral part of our daily lives, allowing us to stay connected with friends, family, and colleagues no matter where we are. But what...
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How I reverse-engineered incomplete Chinese BLE specs and built a cross-platform medical temperature monitoring app in six weeks.
A client of mine has a product in the form of a sensor that monitors the temperature of medical critical infrastructures, such as medicine refrigerators or organ transports. For the configuration, analysis and alerting of the sensor, he had licensed an app...
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How an NFT ticketing proof of concept uses IOTA Shimmer, OrbitDB, NestJS and Angular to create, buy and securely redeem tickets.
Ever been annoyed by high fees and restrictive conditions from ticket monopolists like Ticketmaster? Worry no more! This blog post outlines a project that proposes a new, decentralised approach to ticketing, designed to create a fairer experience and offer an...
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How a browser-based, censorship-resistant app could use IPFS, OrbitDB, Tor and decentralized identity to work without central servers.
Imagine an application that could do it all… Something between reddit, instagram, telegram and eBay. Now imagine everyone on this platform can be anonymous - no IP log, no nothing. The application would not be served from a single server,...
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A collection of quotes from Shoshana Zuboff, Jeremy Rifkin, Edward Snowden and Sacha Baron Cohen on surveillance, democracy and social media.
So, famously, industrial capitalism claimed nature. Innocent rivers, and meadows, and forests, and so forth, for the market dynamic to be reborn as real estate, as land that could be sold and purchased. Industrial capitalism...
