Growing up in the '90s, comic books were my jam. I wasn’t a dedicated fan of Marvel or DC - hell, I didn’t even know those things existed - I just devoured anything I could get my hands on, from Archie to Elf Quest, from Duck Tales to Indiana Jones, from Bamse to Tom & Jerry. Yet, standing tall among them all were the Teenage Mutant Ni...

Born between two cultures, I've often felt like an outsider in both. As a child, I devoured sci-fi books and identified simply as a "human". After all, there are no countries or borders visible on the Pale Blue Dot photograph. Last year I had to leave my home because a malevolent dictator lost his last marbles and decided to wage war o...

I joined Twitter in April 2009, and it's been my favourite "social network" since then. Over the years, I've followed smart people, meticulously curated my feed, and was quite happy with it. That is until Twitter started fiddling with my chronological feed, adding ads, and turning itself into a walled garden. In addition, they killed o...

When I was around 10 years old, my father bought us our first computer. It was hard to imagine how it would affect my life then. The computer itself could have impressed me more. I wasn't inspired by all the possibilities of the MS-DOS and didn't want to learn any programming languages. There was another thing that came later that cons...