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16 October 2021

The Javascript "ecosystem" is a hot mess and so is software development in general

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. Of course, blindly upgrading all dependencies is never a good idea, but this a tiny WIP project with just one dependency that I added, and there is a constant stream of GitHub dependabot alerts every month forcing to upgrade some dependency or other, so what is the worst that could happen? At least that is what I thought.

30 January 2021

The "Atmanirbharta" of open source software

Indian startups need to stop pandering and talking and start acknowledging and contributing to FOSS
18 March 2019

The absurdity of clubbing AI with 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.