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May 17, 2020

We don’t need more technology

We need understandable technology. When we first started our technology company many years ago to help companies make documents automatically from their data, we had a lot of assumptions about our clients. We thought they had a structured set of data already. We thought we could just connect to whatever…

Technology Trends

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We don’t need more technology
We don’t need more technology

Apr 27, 2020

How to keep growing your business during COVID-19

We don’t know how long this is going to last, or what the long term implications will be. What we do know is that we have a business on the line, and we have to do everything we can to survive. Unless you’re one of the lucky ones whose business…

Covid 19

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How to keep growing your business during COVID-19
How to keep growing your business during COVID-19

Apr 19, 2020

This is the beginning of the data-driven era

As a tech guy, I almost feel like I get to see a preview of what’s to come in the material world by what’s happening in the world of technology. Over the last several years, how programmers program has drastically changed. We’ve moved from a world of procedure to declaration…

Work

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This is the beginning of the data-driven era
This is the beginning of the data-driven era

Apr 4, 2020

Why your company’s data strategy is broken

I’ve worked in the data and technology space for the last 14 years. In that time, do you know what has changed about the way companies manage their data? Almost nothing. The problem is that companies are still using disparate spreadsheets to keep track of their sensitive business information, but…

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Why your company’s data strategy is broken
Why your company’s data strategy is broken

Nov 22, 2018

Can software be done?

I use a graphics program that was released 12 years ago. It does everything I need. I very rarely need to use any other graphics software. But it’s old enough that the credits of the builders scrolls through its “About” screen like a Star Wars intro. We don’t tend to…

Software Development

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Can software be done?
Can software be done?

Oct 22, 2018

I survived a collapsing building

I came up the elevator from the room downstairs. It was a large freight elevator that went clear to the top floor. I was at least 30 stories high now. The bottom of the elevator was black. The buttons inside gray. Drab on the inside. But when the doors slid…

Short Story

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I survived a collapsing building
I survived a collapsing building

Jun 11, 2018

Lackluster

Somtimes I would get so sick, I would lose grip of reality. Dreams blur into real life and real life would blur into my dreams. I’d frequently have dreams where I’m drowning. Or where I would get into a car crash. I would almost die, and I would have to…

Chronic Illness

2 min read

Lackluster
Lackluster

Apr 7, 2018

Make a live chat app in under 2 hours with Meteor

I very quickly made this app to showcase the power of Meteor and its capabilities. Code here: https://github.com/Pitchlyapp/meteor-live-chat Live Demo: http://chat.pitchly.net/ This app was largely made in just two hours, styling aside, and shows the power of Meteor and its real-time capabilities. This sample app covers a few key principles: …

Meteor

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Make a live chat app in under 2 hours with Meteor
Make a live chat app in under 2 hours with Meteor

Dec 5, 2017

The economic case that net neutrality was always fundamentally good for the internet

A comeback to the similarly named (but opposing) article by Quartz. Net neutrality is up for debate again as Congress is planning to vote on legislation that will allow internet service providers to charge content providers for faster connection to their content. The vote will take place on Dec. …

Net Neutrality

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The economic case that net neutrality was always fundamentally good for the internet
The economic case that net neutrality was always fundamentally good for the internet

Oct 8, 2017

How to get Apollo 2.0 working with GraphQL + subscriptions

(with a bias towards Meteor) — Update (Nov. 28, 2017): The ‘Cache’ keyword from the ‘apollo-cache-inmemory’ NPM package has been replaced with ‘InMemoryCache’. The new code reflects the most current working code. If you have any more issues, please report them as we try to keep up with Apollo’s latest changes. There’s a lot of turmoil…

Graph QL

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How to get Apollo 2.0 working with GraphQL + subscriptions
How to get Apollo 2.0 working with GraphQL + subscriptions
Michael C. Brook

Michael C. Brook

Chief Innovation Officer & Co-Founder at Pitchly

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