Making Twitter Better
793 words, ~3 min read
I think that twitter is a fantastic service and has a bright future. However, like a lot of new things, the question of …
Hi, and welcome. I’ve been writing here since 2007 - a cross-section of my life and my interests. The most recent thread is kraya , a company I built and ran for 15 years.
There are also posts about triangle , a game I am building on zig .
You can also find poems and short stories if that’s what you’re into.
Making Twitter Faster
578 words, ~2 min read
From my perspective, Twitter has a really really interesting technical problem to solve. How to store and retrieve a …
Accepting Google
429 words, ~1 min read
Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) correctly points out that when we refer to search engines, we are really only referring to …
Customisation
342 words, ~1 min read
Being an avid Linux user for users, I am seriously spoilt in terms of being able to customise everything / anything to …
Bad Google
257 words, ~1 min read
I stumbled across [a post by a Mark Ghosh, an unhappy orkut user]( …
Controversy
770 words, ~3 min read
We have never been shy about voicing our opinions or being controversial. While discussing some PR requirements recently …
On top of Tasktop
1,104 words, ~4 min read
My post about tracking time attracted the attention of Tasktop . While this had been mentioned to me before, I was …
Building A Website
509 words, ~2 min read
Most people would think that building a good website is straightforward and it was. A few years ago, when the web was …
Proprietary FSF
671 words, ~2 min read
I have always a big fan and proponent of the FSF and having recently been interested in researching for a project came …
X11 Remote Applications Responsiveness
230 words, ~0 min read
As a developer, I use eclipse a lot… We have a powerful server that off which eclipse is run which allows us to …