Will Hackett
Will Hackett

Will Hackett

I’m a senior software engineer at seek.com.au and the founder of openclub.com.au and openclub.uk. I write here about business, software development and app sec!

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Will Hackett
Nov 21, 2017 · 3 min read

Using Web Workers to run JavaScript in parallel

March 15, 2017

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Will Hackett
Jun 26, 2018 · 7 min read

I’m polling Spotify because they have no WebSockets—WS, Scaling, Battery Drain and Event Streams

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Will Hackett
Jun 3, 2018 · 6 min read

Roll your own Platform as a Service • Will Hackett

August 15, 2016

About three weeks ago, I decided it was time for my static GitHub Page website to become an actual Ghost blog running on good ol’ Heroku!

Will Hackett
Nov 21, 2017 · 5 min read

Imagining software in a mesh-networked, potentially-disconnected future.

July 13, 2017

Will Hackett
Nov 21, 2017 · 4 min read

Encrypting user credentials, session & recovery data for better application security • Will Hackett

July 17, 2017

Log-ons used to be simple — type in a username and password, match it against a database and generate a session.