Hacking SES gotchas AWS' documentation for setting up SES to receive emails at your custom domain (instead of say gmail.com) is pretty self explanatory but there are a few gotchas that tripped me up for
Hacking Can you hear me now? Get on a plane. Arrive in Mumbai or Bangalore or New Delhi or Cochin. Exit the contrived conveniences of the aircraft. Look around you. People. Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people living
Hacking Deep Dive Of late, this blog and its sister publications on Medium have been feeling a little neglected. Where I used to try to write a long form post every day, my output had tapered
growth hacking The #1 Reason Why No One Signs up for Your Mailing List I am going to level with you - if you are hoping to make a living on the internet, without a tribe of loyal fans things are going to be rough. The tribe doesn't have to be massive, even a thousand loyal fans will do.
growth hacking Does Your Website have a Personality? Your website has a certain ethos, certain spirit but it is likely different from what I am used to in unsettling ways. This is probably costing you a conversion. How to overcome that?
Hacking Letsencrypt ipv6 gotcha As per its website, Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority. A certificate authority (CA) verifies that your website exists and runs on the server (IP address) you say
Reflecting How You Too Can Win on the Web When you first start an online business or a presence, it is easy to be seduced by the Internet's immense possibilities and imagine yourself riding a never-ending upsurge of customers towards unimagined wealth
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Hacking OTPC messaging The holy grail of encoding/spycraft is the One Time Pad Cipher [Wikipedia]. A very simple implementation of a One Time Pad Cipher could be as follows: Anand and Bipasha agree to use
Marketing Streamlining Marketing In the spirit of "Sell before you make", I have been testing the market for a few startup ideas I have. If I were testing my ideas in more cohesive countries
Hacking Irritating UX - II Your browser does not support the audio element. Another day, another example of UX that could be so simple to fix that not fixing it shows a deep chasm where user empathy should
Hacking Why traditional Networking is a false mistress Tl;Dr - In this post, I'll try to convince you that when we outsource "networking" to others, we lose our chance of finding a unicorn. Co-working spaces and hacker meetups
Hacking What I found when I dug deep for my WHY Tl; Dr: I answered these questions honesty and the outcome is not what I thought. In response to bullet point number 14 in this post by Thrive Global [Medium Link], I took a
Hacking A 2048 hack I recently again started obsessively playing 2048. It has gotten to a stage where I look up high scores and strategy discussions for the game on Quora. While my own high score is
Hacking Irritating UX I recently subscribed to the Washington Post’s basic digital package. It’s the least I could do to support their journalism. I have to say though that their UX is beyond vexing
Hacking On building a mass movement Venture Capital and Silicon Valley would have us believe that the best, fastest way to build unicorn startups was to "disrupt" everything and "seek forgiveness, not permission". I found
Hacking Simplest life hack My cousin is a dentist in Mumbai. Now that she has moved back home after her wedding - her husband is also a Mumbaikar - she’s starting her practice in the city.
Hacking Need for speed In India, if you ever get on the road to go from point A to point B, you will notice that, on average, we operate at speeds well under 40kmph (25mph). And this
Hacking Super strong passwords Like everyone else on the planet, I have been fretting about setting and using strong passwords for each of the myriad online accounts I own. I tried the xkcd (HorseStapleBattery...) trick but after
Hacking I have just posited a new theory of marketing This New Scientist article is headlined thusly - Half the universe’s missing matter has just been finally found When I first saw this headline on Hacker News, I was immediately drawn in.
Hacking Marketing is hard I am an engineer. I am used to giving an input, waiting a second or so for the _system_ to do its magic, and then seeing an output. Marketing is structurally similar. There
Hacking Gut microbes I love that every few weeks there is news, that microbes in our gut keep us safe from disease X or condition Y. Let the Pfizers and Schering-Ploughs of the world invent blockbuster
Hacking On DNSSEC If you have ever called a customer care number and the operator asks you for the last 4 if your SSN to confirm your identity, you have experienced the human version of DNSSEC.
Hacking Treat stable websites as "REST" services? Now that both Firefox and Chrome can easily be run in headless mode, can we treat stable, never tweaked websites as RESTful services? For example, consider Mozilla's recently launched service Send - a
Hacking You.S.A A few days ago, I wrote about my hack to stay in touch with friends and family in the US without spending a fortune on calling cards. Yesterday, I launched that as a