How an Indian eCommerce ran out of cash

IndiaPlaza.com started eCommerce in India in 1999. It survived even the dot com bubble. But it couldn't stay float. Here is a detailed story.

Inside an Elephant Capture

Another amazing piece by Kalyan Varma for the Peepli

The days of world domniation by Skynet is near

Astonishing Time-Lapse Captures the Development of Baby Honeybees

The result is justs a minute long video, but imagine the weeks long effort would have gone into it

Hacking Starbucks for unlimited coffee

What an effort!
On the other hand, me too wanted unlimited coffee, but I simply switched from WFH to a regular IT office. Serves the purpose ;-)

Firefox’s optional Tracking Protection reduces load time for top news sites by 44%

Monica @ Mozilla explains that if we opt in for Tracking Protection in FireFox, many of the sites load lot faster. Documentation for opting in: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-firefox

40 Key Computer Science Concepts Explained In Layman’s Terms

Nice explanations of Computer Science Concepts. Eg: "For online shopping, the number of purchased item (input) doesn’t affect the delivery time. The output is constant. We call this O(1).
For online downloading, the download time is directly proportional to the movie file sizes (input). We call this O(n)."