Aral Balkan

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

An extended cut of a recent interview on cyborg rights, surveillance capitalism, and ethical design on Italian national television channel Rai 1.

2019

June

15

Sat 22:17 Rerun cloud-init on multipass

08

Sat 16:04 Export/import issues with GitLab CE

May

11

Sat 09:19 The Do’s and Don’ts of Tech Regulation

02

Thu 15:09 Slavery 2.0 and how to avoid it: a practical guide for cyborgs

April

30

Tue 13:16 Indie Web Server 9.1.0: Better error handling

29

Mon 19:59 Indie Web Server 9.0.0: Housekeeping

20

Sat 16:52 Indie Web Server 8.2.0: Cascading archives for an evergreen web
Sat 14:05 Fixing the icon regression in Pop!_OS 19.04

18

Thu 15:25 Indie Web Server 8.1.1: Reverse proxy (local mode)

17

Wed 17:38 This site now runs on Indie Web Server

16

Tue 20:20 Set up a live static personal web site in seconds with Indie Web Server 8.0.0

01

Mon 11:10 Indie Web Server 7.1.0: Launch a live secure static site with a single command

March

31

Sun 12:31 Indie Web Server: now with native 404 to 302 support for an evergreen web

30

Sat 20:12 Custom error pages for Indie Web Server

29

Fri 12:22 Upcoming talks: April

16

Sat 14:36 How to trim an MP4 video without re-encoding it
Sat 14:26 Using the Advanced Scene Switcher Plugin with manual overrides in OBS Studio
Sat 12:58 Open Broadcaster Software Studio is amazing!

14

Thu 18:29 Introducing Indie Web Server (video)

12

Tue 01:36 Reclaiming your backtick/tilde key with a UK Macintosh key layout on an ANSI US Keyboard in GNOME

11

Mon 21:44 Setting multiple key bindings for the same action in GNOME

10

Sun 13:15 Indie Web Server

08

Fri 10:19 HTTPS Server: now with seamless Let’s Encrypt support

07

Thu 19:27 Upcoming talks: March
Thu 14:16 HTTPS Server
Thu 14:01 Nodecert

04

Mon 10:19 Small Technology

February

18

Mon 10:05 Hypha: Glossary

14

Thu 12:17 Privacy is not a science, it is a human right

13

Wed 14:30 On the General Architecture of the Peer Web (and the placement of the PC 2.0 era within the timeline of general computing and the greater socioeconomic context)

12

Tue 14:18 Hypha Spike: Persistence 1

01

Fri 15:04 Hypha Spike: Multiwriter 2

January

24

Thu 07:29 Hypercore protocol deep dive

22

Tue 13:00 Hypha Spike: Multiwriter 1

20

Sun 14:08 Hypha Spike: WebRTC 1

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

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

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

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

Pre-June

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