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Securing Memories, Upgrading Privacy
This is the story of how I ended up building a private, family-first photo sharing system after years of duct-taping existing tools together. When our first child was born, we used a free app – one that had even been celebrated by TechCrunch – to announce the news to our family. Unfortunately, the app glitched…
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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.
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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…
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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