Empower the Nature Explorer in you

By Husain Khambaty – Cape Schanck

One of the brilliant gifts this world gives us is the ability to explore the land. In today’s fast-paced and digitally dominated world, where screens have become our constant companions, it’s more important than ever to reconnect with the great outdoors. Hiking in nature is not just a leisurely activity; it’s a powerful tool for nurturing both mental and physical health, especially for today’s youth. I use this blog to capture and explore the myriad benefits of hiking in nature and why it should be at the top of every person’s to-do list.

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Internet is Changing and Fast – Hello Web 3.0!

All this while I wasn’t really aware we were on v2.0 of the Internet or the WWW (World Wide Web) until v3.0 came around. And while I really thought its just some protocol and/or a few standards that will have been put into place to pave the way for the new tech i.e faster transmission, better security; Web 3.0 is more than that. It’s all to do with Decentralisation of the Internet.

Up until now it’s always been a Facebook (Meta), Google (Alphabet) or Microsoft behind most of the social, work or communication apps that we use on a daily basis. However by now most of us would be aware of how these applications and companies (mis)use our data and have been selling them to third party organisations or use their ad features and content recommendation algorithms to show us and push us in a specific direction based on the sponsors requirements.

This topic is in itself a blog of its own and I will write one soon however to summarise this has also been a long standing reason to refactor, distribute and decentralise the internet.

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Using Blockchain to achieve Medical Data Integrity


The healthcare industry is witnessing a monumental shift, thanks to the transformative power of blockchain technology. In recent years, blockchain has emerged as a game-changer, enabling secure, transparent, and decentralized data management. By harnessing the potential of blockchain, the medical field is experiencing revolutionary advancements that promise to enhance patient care, data security, and overall efficiency. In this blog, we shall delve into how the implementation of blockchain in the medical field is revolutionizing healthcare as we know it.

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Digital Identity solved using Blockchain

In our rapidly digitizing world, the proliferation of online services and transactions has made digital identity an integral part of our daily lives. However, digital identity management faces several challenges, including security breaches, data manipulation, and lack of user control. Blockchain technology offers a transformative solution to these problems, revolutionizing digital identity management. This blog explores how blockchain technology is evolving to tackle the problems with digital identity.

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Crypto-economics and the Future of Blockchain Economy

Today’s society is on its way to embrace decentralised solutions for human interaction. As we can observe there is a need to develop complex models and frameworks to evaluate the issues facing contemporary societies. The study and application of crypto-economic principles will help in building and preparing the new world to adopt decentralised solutions and evolve the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

The birth of Bitcoin over a decade ago sparked a revolution in the digital world and as of 2019 the jump in the number of cryptocurrencies has been about 2x (jumping from 1,600 to 3,000 worldwide). As of late 2020, countries such as Ukraine, Venezuela and Columbia are among the few that are starting to accept crypto as legal digital currency for daily trade by introducing regulations and enabling businesses and people – it’s happening.

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Blockchain – Evolution of Trust in Cryptoeconomies

Trust is one of the most fundamental concepts of any economy. With the world moving towards the use of Blockchains across multiple sectors including digital money, it is imperative that we redefine our understanding of Trust.

Here is a link to my academic whitepaper on “Evolution of Trust in Cryptoeconomies” where I discuss Blockchain, and how trust plays an important role in traditional economics and how trust can be and should be replaced with Mathematical evidences.

Link to whitepaper.

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Blockchain: What’s all the hype?

By this time I’m sure most of you all must have heard of the buzzword “Blockchain” and “Cryptos” and some random advice on how someone’s friend of a friend made like thousands or millions of dollars. “Crypto” or “Cryptocurrency” deserves another blog and hence I’ll leave it out of this one and introduce you to all the might and glory being brought by Blockchain.

I’m very excited about this subject only because I am currently (as of Oct 2021) pursuing a Masters program in Blockchain strategy at RMIT University in Melbourne. Its a relatively new and developing field (although been around for more than a decade) and as it touches technology, finance, economics, law and broadly several other areas, it leads me to believe that this is a technology is worth learning and applying based on viability in areas of interest.

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Observability is your Best Friend

With the rapid pace at which apps and services are being built in 2021, observability has become a non-negotiable must-have for your systems or services that are the backbone for your business. Along with key business metrics that help feed and drive business requirements and decisions, observability and key performance and availability metrics help make technical decisions to ensure maximum uptime, excellent performance and problem areas of focus.

Let’s start with what is observability and how do you get it implemented across your organisation and what are the considerations.

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In the World of CHAOS

As businesses continue to go digital and with evolution of devices and high-speed internet, the end-user expectations are continuing to increase. With several critical digital infrastructure now moving on to the internet, ensuring these systems remain highly available and resilient to failure is a given for every new system and application design.

If you belong to the world of Performance Engineering or are part of any digital technology delivery, you will have heard of the new terminology called “Chaos Engineering” being thrown around. Let’s get ourselves introduced to this new term and what to expect.

Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production.

https://principlesofchaos.org/
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Home Temperature and Humidity Tracking

GEEK POST ALERT

I live in Melbourne (Australia) and if you do know we are known to be the city of all weathers …. in one day. Yeah it can be quite good and bad at times (bad most of the times) because you are either freezing or burning.

Two words : C.L.I.M.A.T.E C.H.A.N.G.E

Anyway that is a topic in itself for another day.

So its the end of September, Spring is here and in theory we should expect good sunny days however the South-East of Australia is being hammered by a “COLD FRONT” and Victoria was experiencing “Spring-time snow”. WOW!

We have gas heating at home but at times like these (especially after the Covid-19 home-arrest started), the bills have been rising.

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