Since New Year’s Eve I’ve been developing a custom Alexa skill as my “weekend project”. It’s a very simple app that keeps track of the list of people in the house.

At the moment I have a very simple list of names stored in DynamoDB, but if I’m…

It was once thought to be the stuff of science fiction. But the ‘internet of things’ (IOT) is already here and growing at a rapid rate. Simply put, IOT refers to the increasing interconnectedness of different smart devices over the internet. These devices feature sensors and…

We all end up with the same question: why do bad things happen to good phone chargers. This is my problem: one old cable used to work and now it doesn’t, one new cable works great, one new cable says it’s charging but it’s flaky and doesn’t turbo charge. Let’s dive in…

Assume you have a clean PC without any developer tools. How quickly can you install all the required testing tools, write and run your first functional test for the web? An hour? Or two?

I was recently checking into Reddit and saw a conversation on r/Oculus about the discussion on HN about Michael Seibel’s post on the YC Blog (I love when the internet gets meta like that). I moseyed on over to read the 500+ comments on HN and I couldn’t help but notice much of the overt…