
Author: harishpillay
father, husband, son, hacker, friend, human


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
