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The Y Combinator Experience – Remote Edition
In this post, I share my experience in the W21 batch of the YCombinator accelerator program.
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Open Banking and Payments Competition
Why the banks really hate fintechs that allow businesses to learn your account number easily.
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Azure cracks, AWS strong: Covid-19 stress-tests the cloud
The post analyzes how major cloud platforms are faring under pressure and usage spikes caused by COVID-19 during March 2020.
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Shifting Cyber Norms: Microsoft security POST-ing to you
tl;dr: Microsoft and other email security scanners will visit the links in email you transmit, and run the JavaScript in those links, including calls that lead to POSTs going out. This used to be unacceptable, since POSTs have side effects. Yet here we are. This breaks even somewhat sophisticated single-use sign-on /…
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Invented here syndrome
An explanation of how I use an LLM to help me with Unity, do math quicker, and add Victorian flavour to the text.
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What Kind of Logo Do You Get for $5?
An epic tale of deception, stolen artwork, and crappy logos
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Lessons from Failed DocuSign Integration
Technology should be optimized for humans, and prioritizing less in-app time needed to get the job done is so right now.
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Why Slight Failed: A Slight Post-Mortem
My best guesses as to why our early stage data startup failed. This isn’t a retrospective, but something closer to advice for past me. Or maybe just exorcism.
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Be where your business is
This post previously appeared on the readwrite blog. A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to live in the city where their business is – or else they’ll never scale. I was having breakfast…
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There is no “us” in team
I’ve talked before about the non-team team dynamic that is “one person per task”. Where the management and engineers collude to push the organisation beyond a sustainable pace by making sure that at all times, each individual is kept busy and collaboration is minimised. I talked about the deleterious effect on…
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Instapaper 3.0 is here
Instapaper 3.0 for iPhone and iPad is now available in the App Store, and I’ve updated the Instapaper website to include many of its new features as well. This is the biggest update Instapaper has ever had in one version, and I’m proud to finally show it to you.
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Why I Hate Adobe
Ok…hate is such a strong word. I don’t exactly hate them…I don’t hate anyone actually (not that I can think of ). However, the image below …
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Being on a board as an employee
I recently left my job at Honeycomb. They’re a fantastic company, and I think they will be wildly successful. Still, life circumstances are such that I wanted to explore an opportunity at a much larger technology organization. More on that in another post, perhaps. In this post, I want to reflect on a unique aspect of…
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Martin Fowler on Software Patents
a bliki entry for Software Patent
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Chevron Is Refusing to Pay for the “Amazon Chernobyl”
At a time when so many black Americans, Indigenous peoples, people of color, and white allies are protesting at systemic racism, we'd like to highlight a different story of marginalized people speaking truth to power on behalf of their most basic human rights. It's the story of how "big oil" is now using Harvey…
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Byte Interviews the Apple Lisa Dev Team (1983)
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of Apple's Lisa.
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How To Know Everything
At its simplest, this book deals with the art of asking questions. In reality, it’s about Socratic philosophy. It’s about our willingness to open our minds, close our mouths and listen. The c…
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NimConf 2022 – Nim Online Conference
NimConf 2022 will take place on October 22nd.
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How to write cold emails to investors
Want to get your cold email to investors opened and read? Learn from the tips of some of the top VC investors.
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The State of jQuery 2013
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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