Tag: technology

  • APIs – The Litmus Test for Evaluating Vendors

    APIs – The Litmus Test for Evaluating Vendors

    Evaluating a vendor can be exhausting, and regretting a partnership can be heart-breaking. Here are some quick ways to evaluate if a SaaS provider is as good as their sales staff says.

  • What your company website’s source code is saying about your business

    What your company website’s source code is saying about your business

    We can apply Conway’s Law to learn about a company’s structure and values, and the lessons are insightful to insiders & outsiders Catapulted into most developer’s set of oft-quoted computer laws by The Mythical Man Month, Conway’s Law says: Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations…

  • Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned to solder

    Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned to solder

    tl;dr; Stop trying to hack the Amazon Dash button. Just buy a cheap doorbell, a Raspberry Pi, and solder them together. You’ll get more flexibility and keep some heavy metals out of our landfills. Now the actual story