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Taking control back

26 Jan 2020

What is the purpose of technology? I think it’s purpose to serve us, people, to improve our lives, not the other way around. Computer Image Recent decades of technological progress made a lot of things possible, for example connecting us to friends and family regardless of where we are in the world.

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Attention span among software developers

11 Nov 2019

Our attention is one of the most important resources today and attention merchants are fighting to get a piece of it. Computer image There is entire industry designed to get a slice of your time. Which makes it feels like continuous amount of time which we spend on each individual activity diminishes as volume of information we are exposed to on a daily basis increases. Let’s have a look at historical development in that area.

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Care does not scale!

23 Sep 2019

I have been thinking about life cycle of a typical software startup, and what startups facing as they are trying to scale. So I stumbled upon a very controversial statement which I think might be the answer for many companies as they grow. “Care does not scale”. So let me explain myself.

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Taking Yubikey beyond 2FA

28 Mar 2019

Security usually associated with a lot of restrictions and a lot of hurdles that you have to jump through, but does it have to be that way? Is there a something which will help us to keep that balance of sanity and still provide strong security? Fortunately there is one thing, it’s called Yubikey. Company that sells it started with attempts to take hassle out of the two-factor authentication and in my opinion they successfully achieved that. However Yubikey is capable of many more things, not just 2FA, it can carry your PGP keys, certificates and so on. Keys picture

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Ethics in software development

18 Feb 2019

In today’s world software is deeply integrated into our lives. It’s not avoidable, it’s everywhere. It’s not just apps, that you run on your smartphone, but all essential services on your smartphone are nothing more than software functions. We use software managed cellular networks. Ethics Image It’s in our appliance, even in our car regardless how old it is (unless of course you are roaming in car from 50th). Those systems called embedded and usually well hidden from a regular people.

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