A very historic perspective
This is a tutorial about how basic Internet firewalls work that I wrote over 25-years ago (if you doubt this look at the youthful picture at the bottom of the article). I recently re-discovered it in the long forgotten bowels of…
How polite.ai came into existence.
I started a new project yesterday morning.
The idea is around using machine learning to improve the quality of interaction in online chat systems. If you want to…
If conference titles are anything to go by IoT and WebRTC are both big things at the moment. If you look at Hackathon output, WebRTC and IoT things seem practically coincident (disclaimer: at my day job, we did a drone WebRTC hack at TadHack London this year). Everyone is…
I’ve just upgraded my Mac Book to Yosemite and the only casualty I’ve found so far is the IPSecuritas IPSec VPN wrapper application.
Whilst it seems to work and establishes all of the SAs sucessfully via ISAKMP, it doesn’t then move any protected…
Metcalfe’s law is a perfect fit to explain business phenomena like how WhatsApp built a $19bn valuation for themselves last year, and in doing so removed an estimated $30bn a year of global SMS messaging revenues from carriers in just a few weeks once…
Current Interests
Here are some things I currently enjoy being involved in (no particular order):
Walking up hills and kayaking/canoeing. Have previously done club level paddlesport…
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