https://nadh.in/blog/ Recent content in Blog on Kailash Nadh / Personal homepage Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 26 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://nadh.in/blog/this-time-it-feels-different/ Sat, 13 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://nadh.in/blog/this-time-it-feels-different/ In an earlier post (2021) , I argued that much of the “powered by AI / ML” labelling and marketing out there was bogus and disingenuous. That AI / ML technologies were getting commoditised to the point of being as simple as pip install, where most organisations would not need to do any serious R&D to be able to use these technologies, enough to warrant the claim “Powered by AI / ML”. https://nadh.in/blog/web2-web3/ Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://nadh.in/blog/web2-web3/ It took me several seconds to parse the casual quip “But, aren’t you folks web2?”. I probed further and they continued—“Isn’t Zerodha[1] web2? Why don’t you convert it to web3?”. For the next few minutes, I struggled to explain how technologies, processes, people, regulations, laws, industry, and the entire legal and societal foundation that underlie an organisation, no matter how imperfect, aren’t “web2”, and that they can’t just be converted to “web3”, whatever that meant. https://nadh.in/blog/triangle-of-fulfilment/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://nadh.in/blog/triangle-of-fulfilment/ “It’s 2022. Why hasn’t someone done it already!?”, I find exclaiming frequently when stumbling upon things and ideas that are relatively simple and so obvious that they should exist, but for some reason, don’t. https://nadh.in/blog/reflections-on-indiafoss-2022/ Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://nadh.in/blog/reflections-on-indiafoss-2022/ IndiaFOSS 2.0[1], the second edition of the conference organised by the FOSS United Foundation, of which I am a part of, was held in Bengaluru on the 23rd and 24th of July. https://nadh.in/blog/fomo-yamo/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://nadh.in/blog/fomo-yamo/ A whole new way of seamlessly “hydrating” and building “reactive” webpages, proclaim the dozen new Javascript frameworks that offer slightly different ways of manipulating DOM; new stacks for generating static webpages from templates; new ways of deploying “no-code” apps to “serverless edges”; memory-safe languages that enable error-free programs; NoSQL databases that offer unlimited scalability; CSS frameworks that forever change how webpages are styled; new paradigms of visualizing programs as containers and not processes, container orchestration and not process management; functional programming over imperative over object oriented; “AI/ML” for whatever one pleases … magic bullets for everything. https://nadh.in/blog/open-source-is-not-broken/ Sun, 12 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://nadh.in/blog/open-source-is-not-broken/ I read this article (“Open Source” is Broken by Xe) written in the aftermath of the unfortunate log4j2 fiasco. The author discusses a pertinent problem that has plagued the FOSS (Free and Open Source) world ever since large for-profit corporations started their widespread consumption of FOSS, ever since countless “unicorns” raised infinite amounts of funding on valuations built pretty much entirely on FOSS, ever since FOSS got co-opted into corporatisation and capitalisation. https://nadh.in/blog/on-powered-by-ai-marketing/ Fri, 26 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://nadh.in/blog/on-powered-by-ai-marketing/ An email I had sent in response to a survey on the use of “AI / ML” and the “AI-first mindset” in our organisation and in the industry was shared on social media[1] [2] sparking surprising amounts of interest. https://nadh.in/blog/javascript-ecosystem-software-development-are-a-hot-mess/ Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://nadh.in/blog/javascript-ecosystem-software-development-are-a-hot-mess/ I have a small Vue 2 project (an admin UI for dictmaker) that I created with vue cli six months ago. Today, I picked it up again to finish it, and started out by doing a yarn upgrade. https://nadh.in/blog/the-atmanirbhartha-of-open-source-software/ Sat, 30 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://nadh.in/blog/the-atmanirbhartha-of-open-source-software/ In the Indian startup circles, Atmanirbhar (self-reliance) is the word of the year. Technology startups of all shapes and sizes, “unicorns” and non-unicorns have incorporated the tri colour and the Made in India label into their brand messaging and advertising campaigns—marketing prowess and valuations built on top of rapid innovation enabled by Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) created all over the world by countless programmers volunteering their time and effort writing code for everyone to solve problems and build enterprises. https://nadh.in/blog/the-absurdity-of-clubbing-ai-blockchain/ Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://nadh.in/blog/the-absurdity-of-clubbing-ai-blockchain/ AI is a contentious term whose mainstream interpretation refers to not one particular thing, but to a broad category encompassing a wide variety of concepts, techniques, and technologies—all eventually working towards the common goal of eliciting “intelligent" behaviour in computers. https://nadh.in/blog/fear-of-success-grounds-failure/ Sat, 26 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://nadh.in/blog/fear-of-success-grounds-failure/ The Indian startup ecosystem has taken shape and exploded in the last few years, and so have the countless stories surrounding them. Unsurprisingly, lessons of unsuccessful ideas and attempts haven’t gotten as much precedence as successful counterparts. https://nadh.in/blog/parallels/ Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://nadh.in/blog/parallels/ A sci-fi short story inspired by Isaac Asimov’s “The Last Question”. Munic hurried along the dimly lit corridors of the C-wing of the Neutrino lab. It was past midnight, and he had received an alert on his phone sent by one of the monitoring terminals. https://nadh.in/blog/%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A3%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A3%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%8D/ Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://nadh.in/blog/%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A3%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A3%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%8D/ കഴിഞ്ഞ മൂന്നു വര്‍ഷങ്ങളില്‍ എണ്ണം 80-ശതമാനത്തിലധികം കുറഞ്ഞ അണ്ണാരക്കണ്ണന്‍മാര്‍ ഇപ്പോള്‍ വംശനാശ ഭീഷണി നേരിടുകയാണ് (മാതൃഭൂമി, 15 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്). കേരളത്തിലെമ്പാടും ഒരു കാലത്ത് പതിവ് കാഴ്ച്ചയായിരുന്ന അണ്ണാന്‍ ഇല്ലാതാകുന്നു എന്ന് കേള്‍ക്കുമ്പോള്‍ ആദ്യം നടുക്കം, പിന്നെ സങ്കടം :(