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Talks & Ramblings

by Anant Narayanan

All my blog posts, in reverse chronological order.

2022

20 Mar Migrating a G Suite Legacy Account

2020

24 May Project Assemble Redux

2018

29 Dec Introducing ThinMusic

2016

04 Aug Teaching Ozlo about Pokémon GO
12 May Meet Ozlo

2015

26 Apr Amazon Echo

2013

2012

25 Nov A new beginning
13 Nov My last week at Mozilla
17 Sep MozCamp EU 2012: Mobilize Mozilla
26 Aug Mozilla at CampusParty '12 and Berlin
06 Mar Mozilla at Mobile World Congress 2012
18 Jan PIPA/SOPA: Not good for anybody's health

2011

15 Dec Behind the Mozilla Apps Developer Preview
11 Nov 11/11/11
02 Aug Why should you encrypt user data?
04 Mar Apps
02 Feb Project Assemble

2010

2009

15 Dec Figuring out the Goo.gl API
11 Nov Go: Why I ♥ Google
03 Nov Identity on the web is broken
01 Nov GSoC Mentor Summit '09 Roundup
15 Oct Google Search and Culture
11 Oct How does Weave use Cryptography?
01 Oct Heading to Prague...
23 Sep To PhD or not to PhD?
01 Sep Another summer at Mozilla passes by
23 Jul The Golden Ratio
18 Jul THIS IS MOZILLAAAAAA
17 Jul Audio Recording in the Browser
28 Jun Labs Night: Openness and Competition
25 Jun Back for more Labs action
23 Apr Miscellaneous
23 Mar The Summer of Code is here again!
05 Feb 2009 already?

2008

17 Dec My first meal!
17 Dec SSH-HTTP Multiplexer
10 Dec Ghosts I-IV (and the best music of 08)
30 Nov FOSS.IN/08: Summary
27 Nov Glendix on the Web!
24 Nov FOSS.IN 08: Mozilla Labs, Beacon and Glendix
21 Nov Typealyzer
10 Nov 41 Questions
07 Nov Museumnacht & iPhone Tech Talk
04 Nov IWP9 2008
04 Nov EU MozCamp and Friends
15 Oct Good times at 9fans
14 Oct Exciting Happenings at Mozilla
02 Oct The FOSS.IN/08 Omelette
29 Sep Life in the Netherlands
06 Sep When innovation doesn't reach the people...
31 Aug Why I like to act dumb
23 Aug Hallo uit Amsterdam!
09 Aug Why do all good things come to an end?
03 Aug Of bears, landslides, powercuts and cancelled flights
28 Jul The week before the Summit
26 Jul Microsoft joins Apache
22 Jul AES-256 using PHP-mcrypt
17 Jul Weeks 8 & 9: Load balancing, OAuth
04 Jul WFC
01 Jul Weave 0.2!
26 Jun Labs night
23 Jun Week 5: FF3 Release, Canoeing and more!
20 Jun Week 4: pwned by nature
19 Jun An alternative to shared libraries
07 Jun Week 3: Web client for Weave
04 Jun Help set a world record
01 Jun Week 2: Crypto
22 May First Day
19 May 30-hour day
19 May New York in 5 hours
10 May Going retro
08 May Turning Point
04 May The joy of combination
15 Apr Command History
29 Feb Adventuring with a.out
23 Feb My new virtual private server: Gandi
02 Jan Hello, 2008

2007

30 Dec The Trampoline
24 Dec Back from Goa
11 Dec Leopard: A first look
09 Dec FOSS.IN 07: Day 5
08 Dec FOSS.IN 07: Day 4
07 Dec FOSS.IN 07: Day 3
06 Dec FOSS.IN 07: Day 2
05 Dec FOSS.IN 07: Day 1
04 Dec FOSS.IN 07: Day 0
15 Nov Community Pooling
18 Oct Freed!
31 Aug Angled and More
22 Aug Say Hello to Angled 0.1!
18 Aug Implementing a Protocol in Mozilla
16 Aug To block or not to block (Sockets & JavaScript)
13 Aug Fiddling with Binary in JavaScript
09 Aug Swapping Endian-ness in JavaScript
26 Jul Mapping 9P to REST
09 Jul Herald the PHP 9P Client
07 Jul More on Object Oriented PHP extensions
10 Jun KDE 4, Umbrello et. al. on Mac OS X!
06 Jun Object Oriented PHP Extensions
01 Jun Experience Plan 9 on Linux!
31 May And so it begins
25 May Unlimited Humor
24 May D in Gentoo
01 May Web9 for Bell Labs
27 Apr Another great summer ahead!
23 Mar Thoughts on Writing Good SoC Applications
16 Mar Summer of Code, 2007 Edition
12 Mar XKCD: Open Source
12 Feb Compiling SystemC with GCC 4 (and Mac OS X)
07 Feb Unholy Union of the Big Three
05 Feb Swollen Batteries
02 Feb Microsoft loves FOSS!
31 Jan Gnunify 07
19 Jan Macnix

2006

23 Dec VMWare for the Mac
21 Dec Random Thoughts
06 Nov FOSS Workshop at MNIT
01 Nov FOSS and Education in India
01 Oct FSF vs. Linux - The GPLv3 Debate
30 Sep Beacon 0.2
22 Sep XGL/Compiz Rules!
09 Sep Freedel 2006
22 Aug What a Summer!
19 Aug Say Hello to Beacon v0.1!
25 Jul Home Sweet Home!
23 Jul JavaScript, MochiKit, PHP, X, TinyMCE et. al.
01 Jul AJAX Toolkit Shootout
28 Jun An ebuild for repodoc-web
28 Jun Choosing the right AJAX toolkit
27 Jun Every service needs a client!
17 Jun Quick Update
10 Jun Busy Bee
06 Jun Building a REST Web Service in PHP
01 Jun REST it is!
31 May REST vs. SOAP
25 May Hello SoC!
23 May Using your iPod on Linux
17 May Good times ahead!
19 Apr Google Summer of Code
10 Apr Google Analytics
30 Mar Desperate Measures
27 Mar The SCOSTA Experience
10 Mar World's first Ethical Hacker?
03 Mar The Great Indian Internet Backbone
03 Mar IE Sucks!
23 Feb Another day at an Indian College
16 Feb Gentoo Vs. Debian
09 Feb Free Thought, Free World
04 Feb Hello world!