Software builder. Full-stack engineer. Knowledge Seeker. Philosophy writer. AI and Web3 curious.
Breaking the E-Hailing Silos
A thought experiment on decentralisations and interoperability for the e-hailing industry. (This was first published at jshamsul.com on 2024-11-14) Seems like e-hailing apps are popping up in Malaysia. Kummute, Lalamove, Bolt, etc… This is all great, but one industry-disrupting game-changing feature to me would be, “interoperability”. Imagine, a passenger from app A by service A could book a ride from a driver from service B. The passenger pays from his wallet in app A to the driver from serv...
Breaking the E-Hailing Silos
A thought experiment on decentralisations and interoperability for the e-hailing industry. (This was first published at jshamsul.com on 2024-11-14) Seems like e-hailing apps are popping up in Malaysia. Kummute, Lalamove, Bolt, etc… This is all great, but one industry-disrupting game-changing feature to me would be, “interoperability”. Imagine, a passenger from app A by service A could book a ride from a driver from service B. The passenger pays from his wallet in app A to the driver from serv...
Reading Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin Whitepaper
The whitepaper that inspired the cryptocurrency revolution. (This was first published at jshamsul.com on 2024-07-25) Back in 2008, a famous whitepaper titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” was published online. The author mentioned in the paper is one named ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’. As of this writing, no one really knows who ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ is. No one knows if the name refers to a single person or a group of people. There are plenty of theories online about the identity of ‘Sa...
Reading Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin Whitepaper
The whitepaper that inspired the cryptocurrency revolution. (This was first published at jshamsul.com on 2024-07-25) Back in 2008, a famous whitepaper titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” was published online. The author mentioned in the paper is one named ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’. As of this writing, no one really knows who ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ is. No one knows if the name refers to a single person or a group of people. There are plenty of theories online about the identity of ‘Sa...
The Ethos of Web 2.0 and the promise of Web3
A more ideological and less technological view. (This was first published at jshamsul.com on 2024-07-23) The year was 2006. After my final year for a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology at University Tenaga National, several students were given the chance to pitch their final year projects to a panel of tech industry experts and venture capitalists—people who, at that time, I thought were smarter than I was. They were from Cradle, MDEC, and other supposedly industry players.Young me g...
The Ethos of Web 2.0 and the promise of Web3
A more ideological and less technological view. (This was first published at jshamsul.com on 2024-07-23) The year was 2006. After my final year for a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology at University Tenaga National, several students were given the chance to pitch their final year projects to a panel of tech industry experts and venture capitalists—people who, at that time, I thought were smarter than I was. They were from Cradle, MDEC, and other supposedly industry players.Young me g...
Cyberspace and Metaverse
Revisiting cyberpunk novels Neuromancer and Snow Crash in today’s context (This was first published at jshamsul.com on 2024-07-19) I remember reading both William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash when I was still a teenager in the late '90s. Although Neuromancer was published much earlier, it wasn't until the late '90s that I became a fan of cyberpunk and the hacker culture, leading me to discover the novel. Neuromancer is often credited as the novel that c...
Cyberspace and Metaverse
Revisiting cyberpunk novels Neuromancer and Snow Crash in today’s context (This was first published at jshamsul.com on 2024-07-19) I remember reading both William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash when I was still a teenager in the late '90s. Although Neuromancer was published much earlier, it wasn't until the late '90s that I became a fan of cyberpunk and the hacker culture, leading me to discover the novel. Neuromancer is often credited as the novel that c...
