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Short Interview: By me with me
Can you tell us how often will you write?
Well, there is no fixed schedule now; I am still experimenting with this medium, and also I don't know which topics I can cover the best, and also what depth the audience wants them covered. Eventually, I plan for a delivery at least once a week.
What is your focus?
My focus changes, evolves, in time you know. There are some constants, like looking where the web is going, Internet culture or freedom of speech and censorship. But there are seasonal hits such as last year's Libra or this year's ClubHouse.
So, expect posts on topics such as:
How safe ClubHouse, WhatsApp truly are, what encryption is
How to spot a fake news item
Cryptocurrencies beyond BitCoin and beyond the hype -- their social and environmental impact, how they can they create clever money and fight censorship
How big tech ousted Parler (why it's good and why it's bad)
What are and why are Node, Deno, Typescript, Functional Programming or <name your technology here> important.
Why everybody talks about "Python", what a Jupyter Notebook is, and why it's a useful tool for anybody with a computer.
What Google changes in May and how web developers and it affects companies. Also, how we all benefit from this change.
What are the main issues when working with developers and how to mitigate them.
If you had to write an "About Cristian" section, how would it be?
This one would be the hardest section to write. It would feel just like when I am in a circle of people who have to present themselves, and now it's my turn. It's silence, everybody is looking at me. I stand up, nervous, and my mouth speaks on itsown:
"Hi, my name is Cristian Dinu... most people call me Dinu..."
Meanwhile, the brain's shouting in the background: 'Oh, come on, Pick something cool. Not what you planned, something new. Stammer now! Say something about computers.'
"Ahem... I... I.... started with computers very early in life. It was early nineties, and I learned how to program from a book, a paper book, without access to a computer.", I carry on
The inside noise continues: 'Oh, man, not those computers, the Internet.'
"It was 1996 when I first connected to the Internet, using a very slow dial-up modem. That was a life-changing event for me. I felt the universe opened and all the limits vanished... Internet, humanity's greatest invention. It was then when I felt completely free, and I wanted to be one of those who make this tool better, while helping the others use it."
"I combined programming with education, mine and others'. I went to poor villages, where I showed people how to send e-mails and farmers how to use spreadsheets to manage their cattle, I went to rich companies headquarters where I showed executives how to work better using good project management companies. The internet start-ups I co-founded launched digital textbooks accessible to anybody on cheap devices and add new dimensions to the PowerPoint presentations using real-time internet communications. For the last three years I have been working as a Teaching Assistant with University College London, too."
"Last year I failed an initiative to make computer science using Twitch, because I didn't really understand who my public is. Yet, I learned so much out of it..."
And then I would stop, and sit down, because I spoke too much. Then regret that I forgot to say something... such as me living in London, my love for cycling, my not being able to cook aubergines…
Find me on Twitter at @cdinu (but don’t click the link, just yet, carry on reading)
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