Aral Balkan

I’m a cyborg rights activist, designer and developer at Ind.ie. Drop me a line for public speaking or media inquiries.

2019

January

15

• Tue 21:34 Hypha Spike: Diceware

14

• Mon 22:42 Hypha Spike: DAT 1

11

• Fri 12:17 I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all)

10

• Thu 12:27 Hypha Spike: Aspect Setup 1

09

• Wed 12:38 The post-Web is single tenant
• Wed 12:23 Success criteria for the PC 2.0 era
• Wed 11:59 Deployment-first development

05

• Sat 23:40 Hypha Spike: Deployment 1

01

• Tue 20:17 Getting Green Recorder running on Wayland under Gnome on Ubuntu 18.10-based systems
• Tue 16:55 Al Jazeera News interview: French “tech tax”

2018

December

31

• Mon 12:38 Sometimes you have to stick a screwdriver in it (or how to liberate a Chromebook in ten easy steps)

29

• Sat 10:10 Tilingnome

23

• Sun 19:22 What does a private communicator look like?

20

• Thu 12:54 A simple Node transform stream with the new Node 10 pipeline() function

16

• Sun 16:00 Boogie Board: a beautiful, modern, portable take on the blackboard

15

• Sat 18:04 Kappa Architecture workshop
• Sat 17:46 Remember directory from last session in Tilix with zsh

10

• Mon 18:41 Surveillance Capitalism at the BBC

07

• Fri 12:14 Baby steps

November

29

• Thu 11:18 GDMR: this one simple regulation could end surveillance capitalism in the EU

08

• Thu 16:23 Gnomit 1.0.6

05

• Mon 15:34 Better Blocker 2018.2 release for macOS and iOS

October

26

• Fri 19:29 Gnomit 1.0.5
• Fri 16:27 With this amazing trick, you can stay an extra night in Paris but only if you use Linux!
• Fri 12:55 version: display Linux version information

19

• Fri 21:43 Gnomit 1.0.4

16

• Tue 22:59 Updating firmware on Dell XPS 13 With Pop!_OS 18.04

04

• Thu 17:09 Setting up Hiawatha web server on Ubuntu 16.04

September

25

• Tue 10:03 Better Blocker: thank you for our best week yet!

24

• Mon 12:02 Better Blocker for macOS Mojave

17

• Mon 17:58 Better Blocker for iOS 12
• Mon 11:08 Workaround for unclickable app menu bug with window.makeKeyAndOrderFront and NSApp.activate on macOS

16

• Sun 13:52 Responsive design got my app rejected

14

• Fri 19:34 Better, simpler, and more affordable

August

29

• Wed 23:29 Extended Codice Interview With Rai 1

27

• Mon 11:33 Better Blocker: two year review and thoughts on the future

26

• Sun 21:10 Get Unicode-aware length of string in JavaScript

20

• Mon 16:06 Gnomit Flatpak bundle

15

• Wed 17:16 Introducing Gnomit: a simple Git commit message editor for Gnome

13

• Mon 10:59 How to install the Vala Reference Manual into Devhelp using the apt package manager

07

• Tue 10:24 New Philosopher: How power corrupts
• Tue 05:14 Off to Denmark for Smukfest

05

• Sun 22:43 Getting your iCloud contacts on GNU/Linux
• Sun 19:25 Using iCloud calendars on GNU/Linux

04

• Sat 23:18 Multi-writer Dat could power the next Web

03

• Fri 15:47 How to enable the Browse Files setting in GSConnect

02

• Thu 23:57 Crafting a continuous-client desktop/mobile experience on Linux with GSConnect

July

31

• Tue 17:21 How to install DAT on mobile under Termux

30

• Mon 21:46 Workaround for npm install error on Lineageos 15.1
• Mon 20:44 Web development on a phone with Hugo and Termux
• Mon 16:33 Out of the frying pan and into the fire

29

• Sun 17:58 Broadcasting your phone’s screen to web browsers using Screen Stream
• Sun 16:05 Fix for “No Bluetooth Found” error after wake from sleep

27

• Fri 11:05 Getting started with WireGuard on Linux using AzireVPN

26

• Thu 12:02 Pop!_OS 18.04: the state of the art in GNU/Linux on desktop

22

• Sun 13:30 Camera fix for Samsung S9 (LineageOS 15.1)

21

• Sat 08:40 Upgrade Little Snitch Before Upgrading to Mojave Beta

19

• Thu 22:49 iOTA 360

18

• Wed 20:02 Typographical typing habits for Linux

17

• Tue 22:38 Open from terminal in Linux
• Tue 17:40 Enabling Better Blocker in Gnome Web

16

• Mon 16:42 Changes
• Mon 12:49 Adding “command not found” apt package suggestions to zsh

15

• Sun 20:06 Flashing stock firmware onto a Samsung Galaxy S9+ (SM-G965F) on Ubuntu 18.04 using Heimdall

13

• Fri 20:00 Initial git configuration

06

• Fri 12:31 Casino Data
• Fri 06:49 Whither ethics, New Scientist?

05

• Thu 18:08 Rsync Permissions and Termux
• Thu 12:47 Web+ on a Phone
• Thu 11:12 Spellcheck With Emacs on Termux
• Thu 08:10 Nginx: Remember to remove the default site

03

• Tue 11:18 Phones LineageOS 15.1 is officially supported on

01

• Sun 01:37 Refining the RSS

June

29

• Fri 11:33 Reclaiming RSS

28

• Thu 18:04 Are You Logging IPs Without Even Knowing?

27

• Wed 19:13 The Real News: Turkish Elections
• Wed 11:21 Kyriarchy

26

• Tue 16:59 Web+

25

• Mon 21:29 Demonstrating Web + Dat

21

• Thu 10:11 We Make the City: Next Generation Cities
• Thu 08:15 We Make the City: Opening Night

20

• Wed 17:10 Digital Masquerade
• Wed 16:42 Working From De Waag
• Wed 15:33 Override BaseURL in Hugo Server
• Wed 13:20 Little Saigon

19

• Tue 10:38 Public Stack Summit

17

• Sun 10:26 Giddy about CSS grid
• Sun 09:14 Formatting an ISO 8601 date stamp in Hugo

16

• Sat 17:04 Refining the blog

15

• Fri 15:44 Revision history
• Fri 15:00 Hello Peer-to-Peer Web