Archive - Pea Bee

Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your phone without your permission.

Mar 27

March 2024

#20: Finding a forgotten flavour of chips

Lays India used to do a lot of experimental limited-edition flavours back in the day.

Mar 3, 2024

October 2023

#19 This is a clone of Nykaa's website

The clickbait title is explained later, trust me

Oct 5, 2023

May 2023

#18: The little Indian internet corner of database sellers

When I googled the name “Inspirewebz”, their website was still active, but it’s no longer available. However, according to the web archive of their…

May 28, 2023

August 2022

#17: One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants

There are a few cloud kitchen restaurants that deliver food that is so shit that I want to know which other brands are being run from the same kitchen…

Aug 27, 2022

#16: The case of fake IMDb credits

I was casually browsing IMDb when I landed on the page for an upcoming Ranbir Kapoor starrer movie “Animal”.

Aug 7, 2022

July 2022

#15: The early Indian internet

I don’t quite know how I landed on the website “mafatlal.co.in” on the Internet Archive. But it led me into a rabbit hole of the early days of the…

Jul 20, 2022

#14: Extreme ironing

A couple of months back, I made a search engine to look for half loaves of bread in stores. I was tired of wasting leftover bread and made this because…

Jul 3, 2022

March 2022

#13: GoogleWhacking

It has blocked a total of 2.337 Million network requests in the last 3 years for me. That is an astonishing no. of ads and trackers. The 21% here means…

Mar 5, 2022

February 2022

#12: Thirteen links and one picture

I don’t usually share many links so I thought for this issue, I’d share thirteen of them and one picture.

Feb 18, 2022

#11: Searchable list of all the mistakes

I have more than a decade old google account that I am no longer able to access even though I know the correct password.

Feb 13, 2022

January 2022

Pea Bee #10: not young people anymore

I read an article some time back that young people of today do not know how to use the filesystem.

Jan 31, 2022

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