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Nick Plante
Dec 30, 2017

Following the Fake Money

Surveying cryptocurrency portfolio tools: What’s available now and what’s coming next

So you’ve been doing this crypto thing for awhile, right? Based on your most recent Facebook posts, you must be some…

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Nick Plante
Dec 7, 2017

Tell the World About It, Even if the World Doesn’t Care

I migrated my blog last weekend. Over ten years worth of articles! (though I should say that I haven’t blogged regularly since 2013) Goodbye self-hosted static site with CSS from 2009. Hello Medium. It’s possible that I’m a little…

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Nick Plante
Mar 14, 2015

BankLocal: Where You Bank Matters

I’ve been a volunteer and board member for a local-first non-profit for several years now. I’m kind of a hippie do-gooder like that, you know? Most recently I’ve been involved in our community capital / entrepreneurship programs, which is kind of a spiritual cousin to…

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Nick Plante
Jan 16, 2014

Rails + Angular + Jasmine: A Modern Testing Stack

When I started on my first Angular+Rails project around 12 months ago, there wasn’t a lot of guidance around code organization, interop, and testing, and we got a lot of these things wrong. Since then, I’ve worked on several additional projects…

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Nick Plante
Jan 30, 2012

The Wefunder Petition

Kickstarter is awesome for funding creative projects. It’s one of my favorite startups at the moment, and it’s important. I lurves it. But I wish I could use something like it to invest in actual companies — both the tech startup variety that my friends work tirelessly on as well as the…

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Nick Plante
Jul 23, 2011

Building Android Apps with Mirah and Pindah

I gave a talk earlier today at the Beijing Ruby group today about my experiences building native Android applications with Mirah and Pindah.

Although I generally prefer building mobile web apps over native development when…

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Nick Plante
Jul 20, 2011

Geeks on a Train

Geeks on a Train starts today!

This afternoon I’m leaving Dalian, Liaoning, China for a 10-day journey across China’s tech ecosystem with a bunch of awesome startup founders. By train. Because planes and buses are so last year.

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Nick Plante
Jul 1, 2011

Rails Rumble Alumni Archive Project

2011 has been a busy year so far, full of interesting contract work, side projects, research for the next startup biz, upcoming travel plans, and not-so-fun family health issues. It’s also been a busy year for the other Rails Rumble organizers, and as such there’s…

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Nick Plante
Jun 25, 2011

Song Lyrics Without the Suck

Over the past few years I’ve been involved with a number of music-related web projects, including Loudwerkz, DMOD (RIP), and Ink19. Although I make my living on the web and love what I do, I suppose I’ve always been secretly jealous of those snobby record store employees who…

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Nick Plante
May 2, 2011

Startup Workaway — Coworking in Costa Rica

Are you a hacker? Working on a startup? How about coworking and networking with other people who are building inspiring new stuff? Sure you do.

And who doesn’t like the rain forest? See also: howler monkeys.

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