Mitar's Point

Does lawful access under the Slovenian TDM exceptions also include content that is freely available online?

I made an opinionated init specially for Docker containers: dinit.

I made a simple tool regex2json in Go to convert traditional text-based (and line-based) logs to JSON for programs which do not support JSON logs themselves.

Sometimes it is useful to first define an abstraction.

PeerDoc is a collaborative real-time rich-text editor with undo/redo, cursor tracking, inline comments, permissions/sharing control over documents, a change history.

I made a benchmark comparing how long it takes to decode JSON in node.js and Go.

In 2013, I wrote how crowdsourcing could help break out of the language bubble we all find ourselves in when we search online.

I was curious if MongoDB compression can efficiently store IDs if they are represented as string instead in a more compact binary form.

Gravity seems to be our first and most important teacher.

Database-abstraction APIs where you write a query using the host programming language should not exist.

I recently finished my PhD thesis and is now available online.

Recently I was exploring the use of PostgreSQL as a replacement for MongoDB.

I am a big fan of the application architecture promoted by Meteor.

Proof of work consensus protocol used in modern cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum consumes a lot of energy and requires participants to use their CPUs for mining instead of other useful work.

In May 2011 a EU directive was adopted with the goal of empowering web users with control over their exposure to cookies.

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and blockchain in particular are often claimed as revolutionary as the Internet itself.

Together with popularization of blockchain we can notice revived calls for decentralization of national and international governments, their reboots, or even their dissolution.

In computer security an important type of an attack in a decentralized system like Internet is a Sybil attack.

In the previous blog post I presented one example of a confusion when talking about democracy: we use democracy for both “one person, one vote” and “one dollar, one vote” approaches to voting.

We live in times of a hidden war between “one person, one vote” and “one dollar, one vote” ideologies.

Internet of things (IoT) has some big issues.

Interesting talk by Luis Villa pointing out that freedoms are not enough, but we have to aim for empowering people to have capabilities to exercise those freedoms.

Bruce Sterling’s speech from NEXT Berlin is a blast of cold air on the themes of startup life, disruption, and global collapse.

Learn how to walk.

I do not know much about speech recognition.

A post by Joshua Vial.

A post by Stephen Gowans.

Can somebody create a filter which extracts only clean water from soda and other drinks?

Re-decentralizing web and Internet-based technologies is gaining momentum.

A security bug I discovered in npm has been finally fixed.

Interesting that those who like free market prefer changing existing economies which are build on public spending and public infrastructure, over building their own infrastructure from scratch somewhere in the middle of an ocean, and then having free mark…

Those who claim that taxation is theft, why is it any different from rent?

A paper presenting nodewatcher.

Presentation and release of nodewatcher 3.0 at Battlemesh v8.

A panel on how to build community mesh networks at Open Source Bridge 2014 where we discussed both technical and community aspects of such networks.

When friends ask me how they could improve their programming skills I often reply that they should imagine that they are writing poems.

An interesting idea how to aggregate knowledge for decision making.

Term “sharing economy” was coopted.

I really like how Bitcoin brought up so much new energy into the cryptocurrencies world.

Have you ever looked into laws governing taxes?

Those lazy Greeks.

If I approached you, the most talented person around, you with great knowledge and superior mind, you who can make any concept into a reality, and I told you that I want you to work for me and develop my idea.

Vacations and the 8 hour workday is a great achievement of a human society.

Blaze Components for Meteor are a system for easily developing complex UI elements that need to be reused around your Meteor app.

With recent NSA surveillance revelations many in the tech community started asking again for more decentralization and encryption of our Internet tools and services.

Presenting some ideas of what is missing in open access and open science community at OpenCon 2014 in Washington, DC.

My presentation of PeerLibrary at OpenCon 2014, the student and early career researcher conference on Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data.

My talk about how we can create real digital libraries.

Etage is a data-flow based programming language.

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