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The One Place to Hang Out

I've been making my way through this presentation by Maciej Cegłowski

Some kinds of services are just crying out for decentralization. Fifty years from now, people will be shocked that we had one social network that all seven billion people on the planet were expected to join.

Imagine if there was only one bar in Düsseldorf, or all of Germany, and if you wanted to hang out with your friends, you had to go there. And when you did, there were came…

Our Two Visions

I've been doing a lot of outward thinking* lately about Wizard Development's vision. "Vision" means a lot of things to a lot of people, so I should specify. To me it means the general principles and goals by which everyone in our company should guide their actions. I believe that, in general, everyone is a nice person and will try to act accordingly. However, having specific and clear goals will help everyone work together. Here are Wizard's:**

Multiple Domain Tracking with Segment.IO and Mixpanel

This post was written in 2014 and it's advice is absolutely less relevant today, nevertheless it's one of the top search results for this problem.

At One Month, we've chosen to operate our app across several domains depending on what course you're taking. (OneMonthRails.com, OneMonthHTML.com, or the primary domain OneMonth.com)

As a result we broke a lot of our tracking that we do to figure out how people are using our site. We use a services c…

Wild West Mail Delivery in the Age of Bitcoin

If you saw me talk at ManhattanJS you know I have a dream about a decentralized mesh network that supports decentralized applications that cater to our decentralized behaviors.

There are a lot of parts to this dream, the hardware, the network, the software, the apps, the critical mass. All sorts of things. A ton of things. So I have to start somewhere. hackerchat should be the app with some plugable network backends. The two backends I have are o…

NPM Wishlist

I don't write a ton of nodejs modules. I work on a few*, and I don't even work on them as much as I like. However I do end up using a ton of them. Here are some cool things I'd like to see that would make my life easier as a node developer.

Historical Versions

We see the latest readme, and the latest version number, but no info on the old versions. You'd have to go download them and check their readme's and and docs.

More support for docs

The rea…

The internet is fucked?

On the NY Hack and Tell mailing list we've been discussing the recent news of Netflix paying Comcast for bandwidth. The two sides of the debate seem to be such;

Netflix had a cheaper inadequate backbone provider who doesn't have fast enough uplinks to major providers. Deals between providers can be anything they want, and Netflix just sidestepped the issue and got their own connection to Comcast.

Comcast is pushing smaller backbone providers o…

30 Years and Donors Choose

Today is my birthday. Last year you, my friends, helped me donate almost $4000 to both the Brooklyn Free School and Room To Read. It was amazing. I've never been so proud of everyone.

This year I turn 30. The gravity of this event has yet to dawn on me. However, more importantly I know what I want for my birthday.

DonorsChoose.org is a charity site that gives to teachers. The teachers express a need for equipment, DonorsChoose gets them a good pr…

Static Vanity Domains

I gave a quick lightening talk last night atBrooklyn Internets. In fact I sponsored the event. It's the first event I've sponsored and I couldn't have picked a cooler group.

There were a ton of great talks that night. And there was mine. I spoke on how to get a site up and running on AWS using Route53 and S3. I also go to show off my new websiteBlakeIsBeautiful.com.

You can find my slides from the night here.DNS and You (pdf)

I wish I could ha…

She looks like a good engineer

A while back I was hiring for a junior spot on my team at a largish company. I had been at it for over two months. There had been lots of recruiters, tons of resumes, many phone screens, a lot of failed code challenges and a few in person interviews. By the time they reached the end of my funnel I had 3 basic types of candidates in the following ratio.

  • 45% OK
  • 45% Good
  • 10% Great

I find graphs help get the point across.
chart_1

I found a candidate, a yo…

Getting Started with Electronics (hardware)

I've been asked a few times what to buy when starting with electronics, especially when it comes to micro-controllers and sensors. You're going to end up buying a ton of parts while exploring. You'll have a hard time using a lot of these components until you're comfortable with their conventions. It's also important to make sure your everything works together.

For starters, lets go with a kit - the SparkFun Inventors Kit.
SIK_LCD

It comes with a wonderf…

EEE - Presentation at RobotsConf 2013

Yesterday I gave a talk at Robots Conference called "Electrical Engineering Excitement" or EEE!.

You can download my talk in PDF or Keynote (for fancy animations!).

I feel I should also point you towards some better Electrical Engineering resources.

The wonderful Getting Started in Electronics is an old book but amazing. The physics haven't changed in 25 years and this book shows you how it works. Let me quote a review from Amazon.

I cannot over…

Talk: Networking in Ruby @GA

Tonight I gave a talk at General Assembly on making a decentralized chat server in Ruby. I wanted to talk on something that wasn't web development as we webdevs tend to get caught up in making everything an http request. GA was a wonderful host (Thank you Mercedes!) and afterwards everyone at the talk was awesome to talk to.

Thanks to one helpful audience member for digging up RFC1. It's a cool read if you're into history of computers and network…

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