Fun with Toshi: Building a Simple Ethereum Faucet Dapp

MongoDB Gotchas & How To Avoid Them

A lot of people hate on MongoDB. In my opinion they’re misguided — the main reason so many people think like this is a lack of understanding. Everyone should be able to benefit from MongoDB’s power and simplicity, and so as a follow up to David’s article I have…

The (actual) art of over-engineering your side projects

This morning I read this post — “The art of over-engineering your side projects” — and I think it’s missing a few things. Liam’s post covers (imho) what it takes to have a successful side project that-might-be-a-actual-thing-one-day…

What are the top challenges as a QA tester in software or web development?

From what I’ve seen at Rainforest QA and before these are the top 5 most common challenges:

1. Getting good, solid requirements from product or engineering — this is never easy…

Bad vs Good metrics

This is part of a series of posts taken from me moderating a group for Y Combinator Startup School. If you’d like more…

What to do when your AWS access key is compromised

Dear AWS Customer,

We have discovered your AWS access key ending with FLFQ along with your secret key available on a public web site. This…

Docker Language Stacks

n.b. this is an old post that I forgot to publish — still, might be useful to someone

Using Docker for containerization has now become easier with the recently released Language Stacks.

Bring a trailer…map.

If you’ve not heard of BringATrailer.com, then you’ll likely not be into cars too heavily. It’s a pretty simple concept —…

Startup School 2018

For the second time running, I’m giving time to moderate a group for Y Combinator’s Startup School. If you’re unfamiliar, it’s a 10-week online course starting on the 28th of August. This time my group will be Group 58.

What is accidental complexity?

If you’ve ever heard this phrase, it’s from “No Silver Bullet”. It proposes two types of complexity, accidental and essential complexity. The author states that;

• Essential complexity is the problem to be solved — the user must be able to do X things