Apple Watch Series 2 - A Short Review
Yes, I finally got an Apple Watch as I’m currently using an iPhone 7 Plus for my daily driver phone. Yes, I got the Series 2 mid cycle because I got a good deal and I don’t really care enough about potential new features…and yes, I’m going to review it in an effort to reset the nearly year-long content gap on my blog.
Read moreStrange Loop - Exploring Conversational Interfaces with Amazon Alexa and Go
Nothing hums like the Strange Loop conference machine! I just spoke at the conference yesterday in St. Louis and already the video of my talk is up and has 150+ views on YouTube! Here is the YouTube video: Here are my slides: Thanks, Strange Loop! It was an honor to be included in this year’s roster of speakers at such a great conference.
Read moreThe Nodejs CA Bug From Hell…and Mozilla
Can I tell you about this doozy of a bug we just resolved at Studio71? When I say doozy, I mean a total mess and the path led us down to some questionable npm package decisions and eventually to Mozilla…and thankfully nothing overly stupid that we did! Lets back up though…
Read moreMy Gopherfest Talk on go-alexa
I recently had the opportunity to perform a “lightening talk” at San Francisco’s Gopherfest 2016, a conference about the Go programming language, about my go-alexa library to create Amazon Alexa skills. Still no word on when the video of my talk will be released, but I’ve embedded my slides below:
Read moreThe Studio71 Office Screens
Update: I forgot to mention it in the post, but if there is any interest I could release a generic version to the store and/or the source code to the app. Let me know: @thatmikeflynn I love screens. You love screens. Developers love screens! We have at least two or three on our desk and when that’s not enough we like to hang them all over the place so no matter where we look there’s a screen in there somewhere.
Read moreThis is How You Comedy Hack Day
We can all talk about my Comedy Hack Day 10 / Sketchfest later, but for now lets check out this git log from this weekend. This is how you Comedy Hack Day!
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