Category: op ed

I published an op-ed in the Globe and Mail taking a look at the recent twitter hack and how it relates to the failures in the tech industry culture. The blue checkmark of Twitter’s verified accounts remains one of social media’s most coveted baubles. The symbol, which appears next to a user’s name to signify that a given account genuinely belongs to...

Snacks, time, and the internet. Everything you need to learn to program (Resources at bottom of article) This article is also available on medium. I spent many of my formative years in a small oil camp on the island of Sumatra — the big rocket-shaped island in the Indonesian archipelago. That’s where I first learned to program computers. There wasn’t anyone there my...