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April, 2014

Looking forward to #IIW

I've been planning on heading to the Internet Identity Workshop for years; although I did once make it to a one-day London version, I've never managed to get down to Mountain View for the full three-day length. From the website: Do you care about privacy in Age of Surveillance? (You should.) Do ...
April 30, 2014

I'm thinking about adding comments. What do you like? #indieweb

Right now I don't have comments on my site. Despite this, I think discussion is one of the most important parts of the web. I'm definitely not anti-comment, and I love feedback. My intention is that you'll write a reply on your own site and link over here. Using a back-end ...
April 27, 2014

To support the #indieweb, we need better web hosting.

I'm finding it fascinating to hear about the ways people host their websites. We're living in a world where professional hosting has been eaten by "the cloud": virtualized servers arguably rule, supported by tools like Docker and platforms like Amazon Web Services. Yet personal hosting has not kept pace. Here, hosts ...
April 26, 2014

Cyclists of the Bay Area: heed my call!

I grew up in Oxford: a city where everyone cycles. Its roads predate cars, often by a thousand years, so pedal power is a much more sensible way to get around. I say that because I want you to know that this doesn't come from a place of cycle-hatred. I ...
April 22, 2014

The awesome, web-powered future of television

Note: I'm currently CTO at latakoo, an enterprise video company that heavily works with broadcast television. This post is my own opinion and nobody else at latakoo was involved in any way. Last month, Benedict Evans wrote a really interesting post about the future of television which you should read. This in ...
April 18, 2014

Turbulence reports

I'm a nervous flyer. I've been trying to get better over the years, and I'd never let it stop me from actually going anywhere, but I jump at turbulence, and I certainly can't ever get relaxed enough to do anything like sleep. I avoid red eye flights if at all ...
April 13, 2014