Author: harishpillay
father, husband, son, hacker, friend, human
ERP2.0 and the Sunken Cost Fallacy
And the Fediverse link is UP
Why was the commentary removed?
Open source codebases are the bedrock of today’s enterprise systems
My very first computer lesson/usage – 1976!
Let’s Encrypt and self hosting at home
The vibrancy of open source projects/products
My ESP8266-01 Adventure
Being part of a tradition
“You need Internet banking?”
Holding up half the sky
The reality of standing up for my country – part 1
Hiding in plain sight
Of trust and obfuscation
Seriously? NRIC for TraceTogether?
Looking forward to a recyclable, open sourced, wearable, contact tracing device
A flawed idea. Zoom does not get it (or maybe they are pretending).
Curated playlist of videos
Working Remotely with FOSS tools
Jit.si if you care and Zoom if you don’t.
A tip to play audio (and video) in a browser
Mailed in ballots
No. Internet voting is still a No Go.
BuildTogether – data, code, people for the world
Goodbye Prep Chet and Nimi Chech
Of NUCs and Bastions
xrandr – note to self
The sale of PIR.org (and with it .ORG)
Handwaving. No surprises.
Two statements that I live by
Fa(r)cial Recognition + Parliament = Smart Parliament?
And Election Kakis gets underway
Majulah Singapura
Democracy is a participatory sport, not a spectator sport!
Standard C150 handheld – manual and schematic
The Enormous Empowering of Free and Open Source Software Ecosystem
Good bye and On on!
Start-ups and patents
Railway Records
Congratulations to the new SCS president and council
Why am I running for the presidency of the SCS?
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal
2019 – Here we come
Electronic voting and trust
Defending my country
Simple life hack
Working around censorship
NASA Space Apps Challenge 2018 – Singapore
Not allowed to code? Really?
Happy 35th Birthday GNU!
A healthcare IT foundation built on gooey clay
What I’ve learned in 15 years at Red Hat
Why is 10 million people the target for Singapore?
You gotta love the UNIX way of doing things
The value of independence
My updated GPG keys: 0x61AFA27B
SingHealth, PDPA, Smart Nation, sigh!
About that data breach at SingHealth
ssh tunnel via userspace systemd service
So, you want to do computer science, huh?
And, they are online now
You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep**
Seeking a board seat at OpenSource.org
Of open source, security and collaboration
Wireless@SGx for Fedora and Linux users
My submission to the proposed changes to the Films Act
This is very interesting! (it is proprietary though)
Phenomenal!
It takes time to apologise. I get it. But …
Transparency is good. Really.
Is this a failure of leadership?
The ongoing spinning
No, Halimah, You Are Mistaken
What if no one came?
Three must haves in Fedora 26
The next president and Singapore at 200
Some updates on “who’s my MP”
On being an engaged and responsible citizen
Thank you, Uncle Sar, and Rest In Peace!
A better model to work with citizens
Quarter Century of Innovation – aka Happy Birthday Linux!
Joseph Schooling should not be the last
Congratulations NUS Engineers Class of 2016!
This is quite a nice tool – magic-wormhole
Lots of rescued data
Remember, Remember The Eleventh of September. Majulah Singapura.
Ensuring that this gets as wide a read as possible before September 11, Polling Day
As the silly season starts
He probably is indeed telling the truth! (info graphic updated on Aug 29)
The need for a independent Electoral Commission
And the games have begun
What I want for the future of Singapore starting today.
To keep things in context
A special moment in time
Completely missing the point about silly mobile “data plans”
Secure E7y Nomadic Toolkit
