One year ago I decided to stop self-promoting this blog. Previously I would spend a lot of time submitting my links to Social Media sites such as Hacker News and Reddit. It was taking up a lot of my time and attention. I even got a warning from Hacker News admin for repeatedly submitting links […]
Yelp Forces Mobile App Download to Get Full Experience
In this episode of tech companies behaving badly, I would like to call out Yelp for forcing users to download their mobile app. I am 90% certain that I was able to get full experience on mobile Yelp in the past. Now it forces me to download a mobile app if I want to view […]
YouTube should Stream Audio for Free
I should be able to lock my phone while using YouTube and still hear the sound in the background. Currently this functionally is only available to YouTube Premium subscribers for $12 a month. This is a bad business practice for YouTube and a bad thing for the world. Bad for Youtube Why is it bad […]
Bitcoin Energy Waste in 2017 is Estimated to Equal 1.5 Million Cars
Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index is an attempt to estimates total energy cost of mining Bitcoin. Their methodology is based on the fact that energy needed to mine Bitcoin will increase in response to oversupply of mining resources. To quote the Bitcoin Wikipedia article: Every 2,016 blocks (approximately 14 days at roughly 10 min per block), […]
Death by Redesign
What does 1 + 2 + 3 equal to? It was 6, not anymore. Apple released its new operating system (iOS 11) for iPhone on September 19, 2017. One of the updates was a redesigned calculator app. Mid October, a post titled “Try quickly typing 1 + 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator. […]
I decided to disable AMP on my site
I have a long history with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project, but yesterday I drew the final straw. I was on Twitter (in Safari on iPhone 6) and I noticed that somebody linked to my site using an AMP link. I replied with a real link, but when I clicked on it, I was […]
AMP Link Button and Speaking Up
Four month ago I noticed something weird with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project and wrote a blog post outlining my concerns. I first submitted the post to Reddit where it was not received well. People told me to “Read the Fucking Manual”. I remember telling my wife that I didn’t understand why people on […]
Why Uber May Win After All
Introduction Three days ago I wrote about my interview at Uber. I did not think of Uber as a great place to work. People that I’ve met seemed young, smart and overworked to the point of exhaustion. From my conversation with recruiter I took away that Uber had no problem being the lowest bidder and […]
My Interview at Uber
A little less than a year ago I had the “pleasure” to interview at Uber. I didn’t know much about the company at the time, other than that they were big. I was looking for work already and Uber’s recruiter reached out to me, so I figured to give it a shot. Up to this […]
AMP Toolbar Now Has a Button to View and Copy the Original URL
This is another follow up to my 4 Month old blog post – how you may be loosing your mobile traffic to Google AMP pages. Note: AMP stands for Accelerate Mobile Pages – and it’s a roughly year old project from Google that aims to optimize mobile browsing experience by providing a free cache/CDN layer, […]