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February 3, 2023 harishpillay

Why was the commentary removed?

January 9, 2023January 16, 2023 harishpillay

Open source codebases are the bedrock of today’s enterprise systems

January 2, 2023January 3, 2023 harishpillay

My very first computer lesson/usage – 1976!

December 15, 2020 harishpillay

Let’s Encrypt and self hosting at home

December 13, 2020December 14, 2020 harishpillay

The vibrancy of open source projects/products

December 1, 2020December 2, 2020 harishpillay

My ESP8266-01 Adventure

November 16, 2020 harishpillay

Being part of a tradition

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 harishpillay

“You need Internet banking?”

September 10, 2020 harishpillay

Holding up half the sky

July 27, 2020 harishpillay

The reality of standing up for my country – part 1

July 20, 2020July 20, 2020 harishpillay

Hiding in plain sight

June 21, 2020June 23, 2020 harishpillay

Of trust and obfuscation

June 7, 2020June 7, 2020 harishpillay

Seriously? NRIC for TraceTogether?

June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 harishpillay

Looking forward to a recyclable, open sourced, wearable, contact tracing device

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 harishpillay

A flawed idea. Zoom does not get it (or maybe they are pretending).

May 29, 2020 harishpillay

Curated playlist of videos

May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 harishpillay

Working Remotely with FOSS tools

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 harishpillay

Jit.si if you care and Zoom if you don’t.

April 12, 2020April 12, 2020 harishpillay

A tip to play audio (and video) in a browser

April 6, 2020April 6, 2020 harishpillay

Mailed in ballots

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 harishpillay

No. Internet voting is still a No Go.

March 23, 2020April 4, 2020 harishpillay

BuildTogether – data, code, people for the world

January 1, 2020January 2, 2020 harishpillay

Goodbye Prep Chet and Nimi Chech

December 29, 2019 harishpillay

Of NUCs and Bastions

December 4, 2019December 5, 2019 harishpillay

xrandr – note to self

November 28, 2019November 29, 2019 harishpillay

The sale of PIR.org (and with it .ORG)

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019 harishpillay

Handwaving. No surprises.

November 19, 2019 harishpillay

Two statements that I live by

November 15, 2019 harishpillay

Fa(r)cial Recognition + Parliament = Smart Parliament?

October 17, 2019October 18, 2019 harishpillay

And Election Kakis gets underway

August 11, 2019August 11, 2019 harishpillay

Majulah Singapura

June 22, 2019August 29, 2019 harishpillay

Democracy is a participatory sport, not a spectator sport!

June 2, 2019 harishpillay

Standard C150 handheld – manual and schematic

May 20, 2019May 21, 2019 harishpillay

The Enormous Empowering of Free and Open Source Software Ecosystem

April 15, 2019 harishpillay

Good bye and On on!

April 10, 2019 harishpillay

Start-ups and patents

March 31, 2019March 31, 2019 harishpillay

Railway Records

March 28, 2019 harishpillay

Congratulations to the new SCS president and council

March 25, 2019March 25, 2019 harishpillay

Why am I running for the presidency of the SCS?

January 9, 2019 harishpillay

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal

January 1, 2019January 1, 2019 harishpillay

2019 – Here we come

December 13, 2018 harishpillay

Electronic voting and trust

December 10, 2018December 12, 2018 harishpillay

Defending my country

November 28, 2018 harishpillay

Simple life hack

November 10, 2018 harishpillay

Working around censorship

October 21, 2018October 22, 2018 harishpillay

NASA Space Apps Challenge 2018 – Singapore

September 29, 2018September 29, 2018 harishpillay

Not allowed to code? Really?

September 28, 2018September 28, 2018 harishpillay

Happy 35th Birthday GNU!

September 21, 2018 harishpillay

A healthcare IT foundation built on gooey clay

September 8, 2018September 9, 2018 harishpillay

What I’ve learned in 15 years at Red Hat

August 19, 2018August 19, 2018 harishpillay

Why is 10 million people the target for Singapore?

August 14, 2018August 14, 2018 harishpillay

You gotta love the UNIX way of doing things

July 29, 2018July 29, 2018 harishpillay

The value of independence

July 23, 2018 harishpillay

My updated GPG keys: 0x61AFA27B

July 22, 2018July 24, 2018 harishpillay

SingHealth, PDPA, Smart Nation, sigh!

July 21, 2018 harishpillay

About that data breach at SingHealth

July 19, 2018July 19, 2018 harishpillay

ssh tunnel via userspace systemd service

June 25, 2018June 25, 2018 harishpillay

So, you want to do computer science, huh?

June 3, 2018June 20, 2022 harishpillay

And, they are online now

April 8, 2018April 8, 2018 harishpillay

You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep**

March 11, 2018March 11, 2018 harishpillay

Seeking a board seat at OpenSource.org

February 20, 2018 harishpillay

Of open source, security and collaboration

February 14, 2018July 16, 2018 harishpillay

Wireless@SGx for Fedora and Linux users

December 30, 2017 harishpillay

My submission to the proposed changes to the Films Act

October 30, 2017October 30, 2017 harishpillay

This is very interesting! (it is proprietary though)

October 17, 2017October 17, 2017 harishpillay

Phenomenal!

October 16, 2017October 17, 2017 harishpillay

It takes time to apologise. I get it. But …

October 12, 2017October 12, 2017 harishpillay

Transparency is good. Really.

October 9, 2017October 9, 2017 harishpillay

Is this a failure of leadership?

September 9, 2017September 10, 2017 harishpillay

The ongoing spinning

August 12, 2017 harishpillay

No, Halimah, You Are Mistaken

July 21, 2017 harishpillay

What if no one came?

July 20, 2017 harishpillay

Three must haves in Fedora 26

July 19, 2017July 19, 2017 harishpillay

The next president and Singapore at 200

July 19, 2017July 19, 2017 harishpillay

Some updates on “who’s my MP”

July 8, 2017July 8, 2017 harishpillay

On being an engaged and responsible citizen

June 16, 2017June 16, 2017 harishpillay

Thank you, Uncle Sar, and Rest In Peace!

April 7, 2017 harishpillay

A better model to work with citizens

August 25, 2016August 25, 2016 harishpillay

Quarter Century of Innovation – aka Happy Birthday Linux!

August 14, 2016August 16, 2016 harishpillay

Joseph Schooling should not be the last

July 12, 2016July 20, 2016 harishpillay

Congratulations NUS Engineers Class of 2016!

July 11, 2016July 11, 2016 harishpillay

This is quite a nice tool – magic-wormhole

February 1, 2016 harishpillay

Lots of rescued data

September 11, 2015 harishpillay

Remember, Remember The Eleventh of September. Majulah Singapura.

September 9, 2015 harishpillay

Ensuring that this gets as wide a read as possible before September 11, Polling Day

August 31, 2015 harishpillay

As the silly season starts

August 28, 2015August 29, 2015 harishpillay

He probably is indeed telling the truth! (info graphic updated on Aug 29)

August 27, 2015August 27, 2015 harishpillay

The need for a independent Electoral Commission

August 27, 2015August 27, 2015 harishpillay

And the games have begun

August 23, 2015January 5, 2021 harishpillay

What I want for the future of Singapore starting today.

August 10, 2015August 10, 2015 harishpillay

To keep things in context

August 10, 2015August 10, 2015 harishpillay

A special moment in time

April 30, 2015April 30, 2015 harishpillay

Completely missing the point about silly mobile “data plans”

April 27, 2015April 29, 2015 harishpillay

Secure E7y Nomadic Toolkit

March 29, 2015March 29, 2015 harishpillay

The rain on the parade made it meaningful

March 27, 2015March 27, 2015 harishpillay

Congratulations, Howie!

March 24, 2015March 24, 2015 harishpillay

homage

March 22, 2015March 24, 2015 harishpillay

Charting the future of the Singapore Computer Society

May 19, 2014 harishpillay

Congratulations Class of 2014 Republic Polytechnic

May 12, 2014 harishpillay

UEFI and Fedora/RHEL – trivially working.

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