Reflections on code, the things I read and what I've been up to.
I have a question for the non-programmers reading this: when you use the web, what is your intuition about how the whole thing works?
Read ArticleThe modern web is an amazing piece of technology. It is a platform for connecting people and technology in a way few imagined. This would never have happened by attempting...
Read ArticleHyperCard was a piece of software bundled for free with original Macs in the late 80s and into the 90s. It’s probably my favourite piece of software, but very hard...
Read ArticleI’m deeply disappointed with modern technology. The smartest minds of my generation are inventing surfaces for somewhere to strap ads. A product is successful if it gives a 5.3% increase...
Read ArticleYou have an application. It works with complex data of varying structure. There are many optional parts to each piece of data. The domain lends itself to processing services working...
Read ArticleThere’s a really straight-forward approach to updating the UI in a JavaScript browser app. Use chunk of hidden HTML, duplicate this and then manually update the duplicated elements to show...
Read ArticleA sports broadcasting project I worked on a year ago used XMPP as a performance optimisation and for in-game chat. We used ejabberd (on AWS EC2) for the server, Strophe.js...
Read Articleejabberd is a mature, powerful, high-performance, open-source XMPP server. If you want to use XMPP, I highly recommend it.
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