A startup is a company that spends most of its time searching
An interview I did with Hakin9 Magazine on startups, agility, security, and more: A startup is a company that spends most of its time searching
Self-driving cars don't need to be perfect
I can print mostly. My wifi works often. The Xbox usually recognises me. Siri sometimes works. But my self driving car will be *perfect*.
A Look Back at 2015
To paraphrase Bill Gates, most people overestimate what they can do in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. I definitely underestimated my 2015 and...
Shit Google Voice Says
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post called Shit Recruiters Say, where I shared some of the funniest and most ridiculous recruiter messages I had seen. Today, I’m...
Running Docker on AWS from the ground up
Docker is an awesome tool. In a previous post, I showed how you can use it to package your code so that it runs exactly the same way in development and in product...
Should I start a company or work for one?
My blog post on O’Reilly Radar: Should I start a company or work for one?
A Crash Course on Design for Developers
This is a talk I gave at TechHub Riga that introduces the basic tools of user-centered and visual design. It’s targeted at developers and any other design newbies...
Introducing Atomic Squirrel and The Startup Checklist
Update: Atomic Squirrel has merged with Phoenix DevOps into a new company called Gruntwork! Check out the Introducing Gruntwork blog post for more info!
From California to Italy
In one week, my girlfriend and I will be leaving California. We’ve sold just about everything we own. Our remaining earthly possessions fit into the back of my Co...
Ping-Play: Big Pipe Streaming for the Play Framework
I’ve just open sourced a library called ping-play which brings BigPipe streaming to the Play Framework. It includes tools for a) splitting your pages up into sma...