Category Techy
Looking back to the mid-90s, knowing Visual Basic and building GUI apps was suddenly insufficient. Developers like me had to quickly learn HTML, CSS, and other technologies. Soon, the proliferation of PHP and JavaScript (Ajax!) necessitated yet another round of… Continue Reading →
I used ChatGPT to explain the impact of AI to 1st year students.
Here’s an excerpt of a talk I gave at CMR Institute Of Technology last month
I was reading Fred Wilson‘s (of Union Square Ventures) most recent blog post about FTX and felt it was valuable enough to share my summary here: •The recent FTX incident has called into question the reliability of many crypto exchanges, and has left people… Continue Reading →
My kid wanted to know “Papa, what is this all about?” and showed me the cover page of the ET. If I wasn’t the curious nerd that I am, I wouldn’t have known about Nyan Nyan Cat or about NFTs…. Continue Reading →
With over a billion people armed with decent mobiles and internet speeds enabling live-streaming, mobile gaming is finally fulfilling the promise of games for all. Console/PC gaming (mostly US/Korea/Japan) never scaled up. It needed expensive hardware (Xbox/Playstation/PC), a large screen… Continue Reading →
So I finally decided to make use of some old laptops around office and see if we could make them into “browser machines” Things should be easy. But I found some issues during install and hope to document my solutions… Continue Reading →
Here is a recent post on a survey of potential employees and if they would join a startup in India … Q1: Are you willing to join a startup? Insights: Response to this question was a big surprise as more… Continue Reading →
So I’m a Kindle person. Actually an eBook person. But given amazon’s quality device, it’s become to mean the same thing. (Aside, my first one was the Sony Reader PRS505!) And today, this article on the history of the Kindle’s… Continue Reading →
So I’ve recently had to put in a bid for a Govt. tender for one of the projects we are bidding for and found out that the potential-customer company is using the bidding platform designed by mjunction (buyjunction.in) They expect… Continue Reading →
Every tech blog worth it’s digital bytes seems to talk ad nauseum about how the iTunes Store has locked in users with the app purchases and hence it will be difficult for people to move from iPhones/iPads to competing devices…. Continue Reading →