TechLahore

This is not a PG-13 post. If you are offended by bad language, please move on. In Vino Veritas, as it is said in latin, in wine there is truth. And sometimes that truth can be ugly. So ugly, that it might be more comfortable to suppress it and continue on as if the ugliness [...]

This post is the second in a series titled, “Pakistan Emerging”. The first post can be read here. A few weeks ago we looked at Pakistan’s evolving situation as it relates to regional security and in context of its alliances with emerging powers. In other words, how the regional and external situation is propelling Pakistan [...]

The following is a guest post submitted by Hassan Baig of Islamabad-based, White Rabbit. More about the author at the end of the post. Foreword: Social psychologists have long known that any social set-up has a tendency to stifle dissenting voices and bring about conformity. This tendency, seen in the context of the tech industry, [...]

One of the biggest challenges our local technology industry (and truly, all industry!) faces in our country is the lack of attention to quality and a shockingly frequent absence of good design. I don’t want to get into a philosphical debate about what constitutes “good design” and what are the 9 guiding principles and 11 [...]

What a super depressing day it’s been. I take that back. It’s been a depressing few months actually. In the grand scheme of things, losing a T20 final is not the end of the world, but it sort of underscores – in a poetic way perhaps – how things sometimes just don’t seem to work [...]