https://ar.al/ 2018-05-24T10:09:31Z Aral Balkan mail@ar.al https://ar.al Human Rights ★ Social Justice ★ Ethical Design https://ar.al/images/aral-432.jpg Copyright © 2001-2016 Aral Balkan. All content released under Creative Commons Attribution England and Wales. Feed for Node.js https://ar.al/scribbles/analogy-101 2014-03-04T09:30:00Z

https://ar.al/scribbles/fork-me-on-github-retina-ribbons 2013-03-25T21:30:00Z

https://ar.al/scribbles/nodemon 2013-02-16T14:30:00Z

https://ar.al/scribbles/open-iterm-tab-in-same-directory 2013-03-21T11:30:00Z

https://ar.al/scribbles/npm-install-g-please-try-running-this-command-again-as-root-administrator 2013-02-11T14:52:00Z

https://ar.al/scribbles/setting-up-ssl-with-nginx-using-a-namecheap-essentialssl-wildcard-certificate-on-digitalocean 2014-08-11T22:08:00Z

https://ar.al/scribbles/the-male-gaze-part-ii 2013-02-25T19:30:00Z

PHP UK 2013.]]>

https://ar.al/scribbles/responsive-typography-with-css-feature-queries 2013-04-09T15:51:00Z

https://ar.al/scribbles/upcoming-events-september-and-october-2013 2013-09-03T12:30:00Z

Prometheus with a residency at Lighthouse, and talks at various international conferences on Indie Data and Exprience‐driven Open Technology.]]>

https://ar.al/scribbles/vector-diagonal-stripe-patterns 2013-03-02T16:00:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/a-letter-from-lindsay 2013-04-21T16:30:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/2012-year-in-review 2012-12-31T22:00:00Z

iPhone workshops, lots of talks at conferences, a magical hack, TED@London, Young Rewired State, an award for Voice of the Year, a chapter on mobile design considerations in a new book, lots of travel, my first standing ovation for a talk ever, a personal reboot, and more. If this is , just read This Is All There Is and Design is Not Veneer, and watch my talk A Happy Grain of Sand to get a good idea about who I am, what I do, and where I stand at the end of 2012.]]>

https://ar.al/notes/2014-the-rise-of-indie-tech 2013-12-31T20:00:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/a-nancy-writes-back-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-digital-imperialism 2014-10-17T12:10:41Z

https://ar.al/notes/accessibility-for-everyone 2017-09-26T13:00:52Z

Laura Kalbag has been writing a book on accessibility. It’s called Accessibility for Everyone. You should read it.]]>

https://ar.al/notes/aanmoediging-van-individuele-onafhankelijkheid-en-een-gezond-algemeen-goed 2017-02-18T15:45:14Z

1); een maatschappij waarin de omgeving die iedereen toebehoort ook daadwerkelijk publiek is en wordt gedeeld door en met iedereen.]]>

https://ar.al/notes/alternatives 2014-11-19T11:20:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/apple-vs-google-on-privacy-a-tale-of-absolute-competitive-advantage 2015-01-15T10:01:30Z

https://ar.al/notes/be-democracy 2014-06-16T00:30:00Z

@BeDemocracy.]]>

https://ar.al/notes/beware-of-geeks-bearing-gifts 2013-08-21T09:45:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/constructive-disobedience 2017-07-02T19:07:58Z

https://ar.al/notes/codename-prometheus 2013-07-02T08:30:00Z

the Snowden leaks about the NSA and GCHQ spying programmes on ordinary citizens. Our aim is to create products that are great experiences out of the box. Oh, and by the way, they just happen to be open. They just happen to protect your privacy and respect your human rights. We will need all the support we can get. Follow us on Twitter, subscribe to our mailing list, and join us as we embark on the long road to realising this mammoth task.]]>

https://ar.al/notes/design-the-d-is-for-diversity 2014-08-28T17:32:15Z

https://ar.al/notes/diem25-internet-of-people-launch-in-berlin 2017-05-28T17:05:33Z

https://ar.al/notes/ello-goodbye 2014-09-26T07:09:10Z

https://ar.al/notes/diversity-equality-toxicity-etc 2013-01-29T22:59:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/europe-we-need-to-talk-about-institutional-corruption 2015-02-24T17:30:03Z

https://ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons 2017-02-18T15:45:14Z

https://ar.al/notes/how-web-2-0-killed-the-internet 2014-06-02T13:30:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/farewell-not-goodbye 2017-12-12T14:12:52Z

https://ar.al/notes/ind.ie-is-independent-technology 2014-12-09T19:12:24Z

https://ar.al/notes/indie-data 2013-08-30T16:30:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/learning-to-think-before-i-tweet 2012-12-18T09:00:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/islam-is-privilege 2015-01-09T13:01:24Z

https://ar.al/notes/my-question-to-vint-cerf-on-network-neutrality 2014-09-02T09:09:07Z

https://ar.al/notes/lets-build-a-care.data-that-actually-cares-about-your-data 2014-02-22T20:00:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/off-to-istanbul-for-the-internet-governance-and-ungovernance-forums 2014-08-30T13:08:42Z

https://ar.al/notes/my-speech-at-general-assembly-in-berlin-november-2017 2018-05-23T18:05:13Z

https://ar.al/notes/on-design-and-diversity 2014-08-29T12:34:41Z

ind.ie/summit.]]>

https://ar.al/notes/on-false-dichotomies-and-diversity 2013-01-08T04:30:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/on-evolving-indieauth 2013-08-31T21:15:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/on-iteration 2015-01-13T12:01:21Z

https://ar.al/notes/pixel-parity-rems 2013-05-05T21:30:00Z

Responsive Pixels.]]>

https://ar.al/notes/on-owning-your-own-data 2013-07-06T10:15:00Z

Prometheus aims to change it.]]>

https://ar.al/notes/privacy-as-innovation 2014-09-09T12:09:17Z

https://ar.al/notes/responsive-pixels 2013-05-05T19:00:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/save-lindsay-sandiford 2013-04-08T18:30:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/rightscon-or-a-right-con 2014-03-04T09:30:00Z

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https://ar.al/notes/schnail-mail-free-real-mail-for-life 2013-08-09T08:45:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/showing-off-the-engine-to-al. 2014-09-07T13:09:21Z

https://ar.al/notes/shakespeare-and-the-apple-pen-or-why-we-are-setting-swift-free-with-phoenix 2014-10-22T10:10:46Z

https://ar.al/notes/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish 2015-05-11T16:15:32Z

https://ar.al/notes/spyware-2.0 2014-08-22T11:30:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/stop-staring-at-my-willy-please 2013-01-28T21:30:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/spyware-vs-spyware 2014-10-25T10:10:41Z

https://ar.al/notes/the-camera-panopticon 2014-12-04T21:12:59Z

https://ar.al/notes/the-documents-to-applications-continuum 2013-05-15T18:15:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/the-missing-quadrant-of-consumer-technology 2013-08-31T16:15:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/the-nature-of-the-self-in-the-digital-age 2016-03-07T21:00:00Z

an op-ed I wrote for Zeit Online. It is the first in a new series to take a critical look at technology as part of their 20th-year celebrations. This piece is based on a talk I gave at Bucerius Lab in Hamburg last month titled Digital Emancipation: Ownership of the Self in the Digital Age.]]>

https://ar.al/notes/the-orwellian-doublethink-of-open-data-when-closed-is-open 2015-03-28T15:15:21Z

https://ar.al/notes/towards-an-indie-tech-manifesto 2014-03-12T18:30:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/towards-an-internet-of-people-with-diem25 2017-05-22T12:05:11Z

https://ar.al/notes/trickle-down-technology 2013-08-31T10:30:00Z

https://ar.al/notes/we-didnt-lose-control-it-was-stolen 2017-03-12T18:30:29Z

https://ar.al/notes/what-is-the-ind.ie-manifesto 2014-09-20T09:09:16Z

ind.ie/manifesto as a series of questions and answers.]]>

https://ar.al/notes/why 2014-11-08T12:11:24Z

https://ar.al/notes/why-im-not-speaking-at-cpdp 2016-01-13T07:15:00Z