Your ultimate relationship is with yourself. You will be the only one there from start to finish; when that finish comes, it will be the end of you. It’s good to have a good relationship with yourself. Ultimately, all of your relationships are viewed and interpreted by you; in a…

COVID19 has destroyed many in-person jobs, but has created many others. At nowcast.co we have built a system that lets you make money online by giving live classes and courses on whatever it is that you are passionate and knowledgeable about. Here are some reasons why you should consider teaching…

Many software projects have a .env or similar file which includes the “secret” keys to a project. In this file, keys and values are often stored in a manner like: MY_SECRET_KEY=nowcast_rocks123 These keys are later read by your application — for example a Ruby app might look at ENV["MY_SECRET_KEY"] in…

TLDR: Our San Francisco Landlord company told us out of the blue “no water in the kitchen sink for two days, deal with it”, I researched the legalities and discovered that — as far fas I can tell, and I am not a lawyer — we are legally allowed to…

The latest NPM issue should make CTOs reconsider whether NodeJS is the optimal choice for your backend. While NodeJS has been the politically ‘safe’ and ‘cool’ choice for the last few years, perhaps it is time to revisit this assumption. The pros and cons for Node have been well-written and…

“God” is a metaphor for life. It’s the short-hand way to refer to nature, to existence, consciousness, to “the human experience”, to what it’s like ‘to be’. It’s the name for whatever it is that science governs, for ‘the Universe and everything’, for reality. You know when they say “life…

In March 2020 the world entered the Coronavirus crisis and ‘social distancing’ became a thing. Economically, we are now beginning what can be described as the shut-in economy, where social-distancing consumers are expected to stay home and thus value must be accessible from a user’s home. This will be a…

It’s 2016, your site/app should not require a password. Use a third party to authenticate your users and make the web a simpler, safer, better place. — It’s 2016; your app should most likely not require a username nor a password. You really should use a third party (email, phone, social) to authenticate your user, and skip the antiquated habit of forcing/allowing users to choose a username & password.

‘Join’ across Mongo collections using simple Ruby. — MongoDB is sweet, flexible and (when used correctly) enables insane productivity. Sadly, it does not support DB-side joins for standard calls. …