Next experiments
I hit the end of another one of my 10 year cycles and my iterative approach to live meant that I needed to start some new experiments.
Zines
10 years of changing the industry
When we started iwantmyname 10 years ago we sat down and defined an impact statement first.
CRA + Phoenix
How to integrate `create-react-app` with `phoenix` in a few simple steps
Hooked on phones
I’ve been working with startups for a long time, and one of the concepts I’ve taught many of them is the “hooked” model.
Community and walled gardens
How can we build a truly open community if we are hiding in walled gardens all the time
My journey discovering my values
How can we move towards welcoming communities long term?
Why values based communities are so important
If we truly want to address issues in our society we need to work towards shared values
How could a post Silicon Valley startup scene look like
a thinking piece about a possible future for the startup scene
founder.chat - growing a community
*TL;DR: Thursday, 14th January 2016, 5:30 at Bridge Street*
Global Entrepreneurship Week
I care about entrepreneurship because I believe in the power of collaboration and the power of people working together for fun and profit, quite literally. I see entrepreneurship as a way to create resilient communities that address problems by worki
Lego for grownups
When I think about building software I try to see where we need to end up in order to help the customer right now and then work backwards from there. Because I am really bad at knowing what customers want I mock up something that is good enough to ge
The developers dilemma
Writing software is an interesting process. It transforms abstract concepts, feature requests, vague ideas into something people can interact with. It is a modern way of making ideas real, tangible, visible and hopefully usable. This process is a str
os//os impressions
Last week I attended an interesting conference called [open source//open society](http://opensourceopensociety.com/) that brought together an interesting cross section of geekdom that I have not seen at a conference before. I had discussions ranging
Does open source contribute to a more open society?
Linking to a post I wrote for the iwantmyname blog a few days ago in the leadup for [OS//OS](http://www.opensourceopensociety.com/) - a conference about open source and open society.
a new view
We are starting a new experiment in our life, it is called "project mountain retreat". The back story to this experiment is that Manu, ever since we first were in St Arnaud and looked at Lake Rotoiti, loved this place and it felt very much at home f
The chilling effect of tech law
The TICSA bill and what happens with NZ tech industry
Subdomain rot and the security implications
Subdomain rot and the security implications
The difference between 4hww and me
4HWW is an interesting movement but somewho I don't quite fit in.
Why ALIAS-type DNS Records Break The Internet
Why ALIAS-type DNS Records Break The Internet
SSH tunnel script(2)
I work quite a bit with daemons on remote hosts that are normally not directly listening to the public internet. I use SSH tunnels a lot and had [previously used a simplistic script][1] to deal with it.
InternetNZ's missed opportunity
Open and uncapturable is the mission of InternetNZ and the promise to push for access to the internet for everyone. This is what we as a incorporated society stand for and what we try to push. We, all the members of InternetNZ.
lean prototyping stack
For my new startup I play with a lean prototyping stack that will enable me to prototype and evaluate ideas really fast and test on the market.
slides from mojolicious talk
The slides from my talk about mojolicious at perlmongers Wellington yesterday.
customer uses proposal as spec
One of the joys of working as a contractor is quoting for projects that possibly become a real project some when
real geeks die early
every once in a while i stumble upon an article from someone pointing out the dangers we geeks live in in terms of unhealthy work hours and our very own unhealthy mind set.
ignite wellington talk
slides and video from my ignite wellington talk are finally online
slides from LCA talk
The slides from my talk at LCA2010 in Wellington about parallel programming and why it matters for internet infrastructures
3 new destination markets in some months
It's been a bit of a busy time lately as we launched three new platforms in the last time and that brought with it a lot of challenges. Fortunately it also pushed me to complete our migration to our new backend which is now entirely message driven and based only on the finest stuff one finds in t...
one system to rule them all
Here are the slides from my talk at erounge Wellington yesterday
RabbitMQ for perl mongers
The slides from my RabbitMQ talk yesterday at perl mongers Wellington.
Django like URL mapping in Catalyst - kind of
Did you ever want to override the way Catalyst builds its path? a bit like Rails or Django? Did you miss the handy config file and did it also take you half a day to finally figure out how to do it and realise that it is straight forward?
simple ssh tunnel script
Ever needed that one script that simply opens up a ssh tunnel and closes it after usage again? In the background? Here it is.
git via HTTP (startup automation 3)
To enable read only repositories via HTTP is pretty straight forward. I'll cover the basic setup based on nginx and our previously discussed gitosis setup here.
RabbitMQ talk at erlounge
A short summary of the talk I gave yesterday at erlounge Wellington about RabbitMQ and messaging in general.
puppet basics (startup automation 2)
In the last part of startup automation I talked you through the basics of configuring gitosis and the puppet config directory to make deployment of the config files really easy. Obviously we need some test clients and a working server now to play. I use parallels for local development and normall...
puppet and gitosis (startup automation 1)
Startup automation became a big buzz currently but I think it has always been key to those who were successful. The speed to market is important and this is not only true for small companies.
many of us know it ...
i guess many of us geeks went through the one or other phase in their life when they felt themselves trapped in the system with no way out. "the system" meaning any kind of mental state that prevented a clear view on the situation.