Rarely has a post on LinkedIn made me this mad. It was an Israeli company proudly announcing the opening of a Dubai office. NOTE: This is not a hit piece and I have no intention of picking on this company specifically. They are the unlucky ones who pushed me too…

Often it’s useful to be able to provide others with a quick upload link to your video host (i.e., Vimeo, YouTube, api.video 😉). Customer service reps who would like the customer to record and upload the issue with their phone. Schools that want to provide teachers with a way to…

Having a reliable way to filter videos based on specific criteria is a must for most video apps. For example: An e-learning site may want to display different videos to each user, depending on their class list. An animal adoption center may choose to display only videos of cats to…

Having a reliable way to filter videos based on specific criteria is a must for most video apps. For example: An e-learning site may want to display different videos to each user, depending on their class list. An animal adoption center may choose to display only videos of cats to…

This post is an abridged version of a previous post. This version is mostly devoid of humor and contains only the steps needed to do the thing. The full text is available here. …

It must have been over a hundred degrees inside the panda suit, but I wasn’t complaining. I felt a sense of fulfillment, unlike anything I had ever felt before. It would be totally fair for you to ask what I was doing in the said panda suit and why I’m…

Developers are human (usually) — To understand how to “encourage” developer adoption of an SDK, API, or any other developer-focused product, we need to understand what attracts them and what pushes them away. The only assumption you can make regarding your developer audience is that they are human beings, even that is just a heuristic. …

I couldn’t believe it. My new app, “Virtree,” was doing amazingly well on the play store. It had been at the top of both “Product Hunt” and “Show HN” for weeks. In under one month since launch, people had downloaded it more than 100,000 times. At six months with more…

A tribute/attribute, get it? — I want to walk you through the experience I had integrating the AppsFlyer mobile attribution SDK into my app. To get a picture of what might motivate a developer to attempt to integrate this SDK into their app, have a look at this article that I wrote as a warm-up…