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#26 Dropping a Mac has consequences
The one where I bash Apple
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Abhishek Anand
#25 What prevents a truly decentralized digital world
This week was about incidents related to platforms blocking access or abusing their distribution powers. GitHub (rather Microsoft) took down Youtube-dl…
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Abhishek Anand

October 2020

#24 On forcing kids to learn to code
Teaching kids to write code has been a topic of intense debate for the past decade or so. So much so, that some countries have made it a part of the…
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Abhishek Anand
#23 Connected everything, hacked everything.
If you have not yet seen the infamous GE ‘Smart’ bulb resetting process video guide, just go and watch this video right now - There is one more video…
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Abhishek Anand
#22 Mobile phone launches are not exciting anymore
It is that time of the year again. Apple is going to announce its new line of iPhones this week. And for the first time, it would probably be four…
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Abhishek Anand
#21 On 21 weeks of writing
This is going to be short. This weekend is about reflection and being grateful for reading my posts. I have tried to create and maintain a blog almost…
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Abhishek Anand

September 2020

#20 Some notes on tech hiring
Tech hiring is still full of problems. Reluctant employees who do not want to interview. Senior applicants who hate Leetcode style questions and…
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Abhishek Anand
#19 The live streaming economy
Twitch and Youtube Live battle it out.
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Abhishek Anand
#18 The beauty of BitTorrent
Eleven years before Travis Kalanick co-founded Uber, he started a company called Scour that did peer-to-peer file sharing. It was just before the…
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Abhishek Anand
#17 Multi-factor authentication in practice
and why SMS is a terrible two-factor choice
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Abhishek Anand

August 2020

#16 The rot on the Internet
Politics destroys everything.
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Abhishek Anand
Issue #16 is delayed
A neighbor (also the owner of the property I rent) passed away suddenly on the way to the hospital late night yesterday. She used to live a floor below…
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Abhishek Anand
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