Passion in Email Stuffs

— Posted inPersonal — 2 min read

I remember I made my first email address at around 2001 when I graduated from high school. Tried several email providers like Yahoo! and some local ones which half of them aren’t survived to this date.

I became obsessed with email and its technology. I registered to many email providers just to see their competing features. I learned how to send mail using telnet, wrote scripts to send mass-mail, build a tool to search keywords on google and send the result back by email, and many more.

Push mail on cellphone was also a hype, Blackberry provided email services, everyone created account on Gmail: a killer to a lot of email services. Perhaps any of you remember Hotpop or Bonbon?

I remember back then when Opera acquired Fastmail. As a (free) Fastmail user, I was excited and secure my handle at @operamail.com account in no time and just recently closed the account because they no longer provide the domain name.

Another story; I also build OneWayMail out of my curiosity. It’s a free disposable email service which has been running for nine years. It helps thousand of people using trivial services without the need to provide their real email account.

I believe email technology will bring us many benefit. End to end communication using email is irreplaceable because of its humble protocols. I also thinking about implementing email communication into IoT instead of using web services.

 

Starting my weather station project

— Posted inDIY — 1 min read

A friend asked me to build a weather station for his company, a company where weather is very crucial to their business. I didn’t give a nod but I want to see if I can build what he needs.

Long story short, he helped me purchasing a weather sensor which is quite pricey for me. The sensor alone cost about $250 including taxes.

The sensor will be located in a remote area and will be powered by a solar cell and battery. I will also need to build the brain using either Raspberry Pi/Orange Pi or Arduino and attached a GSM module used to send data to server.

Let’s see how long the project will be completed 😀

 

Change Is A Must

— Posted inPersonal — 1 min read

It was a heartbreaking moment when the old Scandinavian browser dumped its own crafted engine called Presto and switched to Chromium: They used to made “the standard” and now they’re following “the standard”.

Change Is A Must

At its Wroclaw headquarter I asked about this and Christian said that the change is a must, for the greater good. I crossed my fingers.

Long story short, the great Scandinavian browser went to another direction. Many people were upset about this, hoping that it wasn’t true.

Until one day, a light of hope shined again from the north. Another Scandinavian browser is born!

Those who love old Scandinavian browser must know him. The one and only, the browser maker, Jon von Tetzchner hit the road again with the same spirit.

From that day, I believe that the spirit of fully customizable browser will be found on the browser named after Italian Baroque composer: Vivaldi.