A reminder, make sure you add value on the Internet, or at least try to.

Does my 2 cents really worth 2 cents? I just added a Zap button to every post on

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J.Shamsul is a staff software engineer, aspiring writer, and digital wanderer sharing essays, ideas, and reflections on technology, culture, and mo...

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Digital Sufism The soul, encoded in flesh and logic.

Digital Sufism

The soul, encoded in flesh and logic.

The Internet use to have a “Door”.

Click Here to Enter

The Internet Used to be a Place We Go To

Big Tech can't be fixed. There is no taming Big Tech. Big Tech has to be dismantled. These Spiders, and their web, must burn.

Spiders And Their Web

Digital online web — sticky, addictive, inescapable

AI is the UI. From “command prompt” to the “prompt”

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AI is the UI

Breaking Free from the Desktop - or Just Switching Cells?

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Second part of “Riding a Unicorn” - Recollecting my Days at MyTeksi / Grab.

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Riding a Unicorn (Part 2) - Jaya One

Recollecting My Days at Grab

Has there ever been a time where U.S. does not have an enemy? China was yesterday's news, today it is Iran. New "enemy" conveniently emerges whenever the current one fades. Desperately needed to be perceived as the "good guy" they keep inventing "bad guys".

An unexciting truth will always be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

When OSes come with built-in local LLMs and expose them via internal APIs, things are going to get interesting. Devs won’t need to ship entire AI models or rely on cloud APIs. Apps just need to be “AI-aware”. Invoking LLMs could just be a system call. Imagine a game where NPC dialogue is generated on the fly, tailored to the story and your personal quirks. Or the help menu for your app is a chatbot that helps you figure out how to solve the problem you have for the app. Apps in the future just need to be “AI aware”. wdyt?

There are two rules for success, 1) Never reveal everything you know.

Always there is a random bot that immediately comments on my note that just jumbled up my words,… why tho? What the hell for?

New term learned. “That’s AI AF” Examples of usage: Someone shows you a hyper-realistic AI-generated image → “Whoa, that’s AI AF.” You read a robotic-sounding email that lacks human warmth → “That’s AI AF.” Chat WDYT?

Don’t look up

A while back I wrote a long piece about the mysterious 500ETH transactions by Hu Lezhi

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The Hu Lezhi Transmission

A Cryptic Message on the Blockchain

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue, or higher political wisdom.

“(Bitcoin style) encryption” Does that mean that your chats messages will be cryptographically signed, but are available for everyone to see, just like Bitcoin transactions? 🤔

From writing e-zines to writing newsletter.

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From e-Zine to Newsletter

My Online Writing Journey