The promise of Spec-Driven Development
Envisioning a future where a small team of 3 maybe 4 people can build something magnificent - in the digital realm. Take a product person, add a few software engineers and someone with social media skills.
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Fighting information overload: FocusUI
No menus. No more "File", "Edit", "View", "Window" and "Help". Yep, you read that right. No overlapping and competing "spaces" called "windows". None.
Circles of defense: your online accounts that really matter
When was the last time you changed your password for your GMail account? Do you know which of your accounts have your credit card details linked to them? Accounts with recurring fees? Let's sort these out.
Managing secrets: an era ending with passkeys
Password hygiene, one password to rule them all, one-time passcodes, 2FA, MFA. Magic links. Hardware tokens. Addressing the same issue: how to restrict access to sections of the digital world.
Digital dossier: connecting the dots
Profile pages you never knew existed. All collected, sorted and listed by a more powerful tool than Sherlock: Maigret.
Traces of your digital existence
Aiming at deleting all traces you made years ago, or simply want to see what's out there about you? Either way, the first step is to assess your online presence.
Robust Digital Footprint or...
Two worlds, two opposing philosophies: complete anonymity or a strong digital footprint. The story you tell online.
Your legacy: a digital vault
A comprehensive digital archive, preserving digital memories, photos, videos, and digitized documents so they can stand the test of time and be passed down as a lasting legacy.
Open source intelligence on yourself
The minimum you should do is to set up Google Alerts listing all your name variants and get notifications regularly, or "as-it-happens". Any mentions will be visible to you.
Control: the choice is yours?
With shadow profiles and digital fingerprinting, some entities - outside of your control - know more about you than you can ever collect online about yourself.
Feeding the machine
Think about it: whatever we do - either making something ready for the digital realm, but also when seemingly simply "consuming", we are feeding the digital machine.
Speed - when fast is too fast
With the rapid advancements of AI assistants convenience and speed sometimes can have an adverse effect. In this post I'm examining 3 use cases: Gemini "sanitising" and cleaning data, Fabric auto-extracting "wisdom" from YouTube videos and finally, how to build and publish a blog within 2 hours.
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How commuting changed my life (for the better)
There was a time before COVID. And there is a time post-COVID. Both contributed to my growth in various ways. This post details the nuances of energy levels and the overall outcome of both scenarios.
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The Digital Alchemist
The term "digital alchemist" is increasingly used in various fields, particularly those involving creativity, technology, and transformation. I let it sink in.
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FocusUI: the end of App Stores
FocusUI is a new user interface concept revolutionising digital information handling. It's a potential solution to information overload offering a focused way of digital content creation.
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CreativeOS is now FocusUI
FocusUI offers a revolutionary way of coping with information overload while managing and creating digital content. A new kind of user interface focusing on the digital content creation process.
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The CreativeOS Manifesto
I wrote this piece of text 12 years ago, on March 24th 2008. I am brave enough to publish it now - without any recent editing. As it is, as it was written. What do you think?
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Personal Projects - Recent years
DevOps. Cloud. Docker. Kubernetes. GitHub. GitLab. The "new" stack. Impossible to list them all... The golden age of software and hardware. Isn't it the era we all dreamt about as nerd/geek kids?
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Personal Projects - The early years
The golden age of the VPS and the LAMP stack. Definitely a pre-GitHub, pre-cloud era for me. This post sums up some of the most interesting projects I worked on between 2004 and 2012.
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The Disney years
A dream job? Yep. A global super brand? Yup. An unbelievable journey? Magical. An awesome team? Bingo. Would reunite with them? Any time!
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The London years
Moving to London was one of the best decisions of my life. Period. It also brought one of my childhood dreams so close that it actually became reality. Read on...
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The Karma Platform years
Turning spreadsheets to business apps? Check. Traveling the world? Check. Entering the world of startups? Check. This was one of the most exciting and super-active-challenging two years of my professional life. From Istanbul to NYC.
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The ShiwaForce years
This period is far from over. I'm wearing many hats here. Perhaps, taking on multiple roles at once is the blueprint of a typical modern, digital, future-proof company. One thing is for sure: with this many roles you'll never have two identical, boring days.
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Touchdown
I believe that if you are not proud of your past and your past achievements no one else will be and no one else will ever bring them up. So I decided to sum up my past few years of professional life in the format of 6 short, 2 minute videos.