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GAWD (Global Access Wireless Database)

Anil Dash

Aug 16, 2001 • 1 min read

GAWD (Global Access Wireless Database) is a search engine that allows you to find your nearest wireless access point.

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Verifiably True

After a pause of a few years, Twitter announced today that they're going to resume allowing any user to request the blue verification checkmark for their account. The social and technical dynamics around Twitter verification remain as fraught and fascinating as they were in the earliest days of the service,

Anil Dash May 20, 2021 • 4 min read

Not For Tourists: Attribution, Provenance and Harm Reduction

Anytime a big new market pops up, people rush in to stake their claims and make their fortunes. Our culture loves creation myths, especially in technology. Fables about lone geniuses are ubiquitous in the tech industry, with their fundamental falsity doing nothing to undermine their utility for most people in

Anil Dash Apr 5, 2021 • 5 min read

Design Choices of Breath of the Wild

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one of the greatest games ever made, and one of the breakout hits of the Nintendo Switch platform, which is on its way to becoming one of the 10 most popular video game consoles of all time. But now, years after

Anil Dash Feb 25, 2021 • 3 min read

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