Strange 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!
Read moreAn Ode to My Work Laptop
I started at Collective Digital Studio (now Studio71) in 2012 as the month of December awoke from it’s yearly slumber. I was handed a computer. A Macbook Pro Retina. That Retina part was new, as was how thin and light it was. Instantly I realized it was the best computer I had ever used.
Read moreSecurity Best Practices for Collective Digital Studio Talent - 2016
With YouTubers becoming larger celebrities every year, 2016 has started off with a hacker group getting access to YouTuber’s social, financial and management account and sharing their data via their Twitter feed. This obviously has some of talent very worried. Theories were flying: “They must have cracked 2-factor authentication!” “No, I bet the MCNs are getting hacked.
Read moreBuilding Lego WALL-E
I got a Lego WALL-E for Christmas and I’m not sure there’s ever been a better use for time lapse than watching me in my basement workshop play with Legos on a Saturday night.
Read moreHow to Deploy Wordpress without Murderous Rage
Wordpress. Ugh. Arrg! The Windows 98 of the internet! The thing that everyone thinks they’re an expert on because they used to run a blog a few years back on it (now they use Medium) and they had this great FTP client they used…they can’t remember the name…but it was great…uploaded a ton of plugins…oh, do you know about the W3 Total Cache?
Read moreThe Orange Dog Thing
I’m fortunate that I get the chance to do some occasional (and not so occasional) traveling for work, mostly to Los Angeles. Recently I had the chance to stay at the Andaz Hotel in West Hollywood, which has a storied history in rock and roll, but now they just include these orange dog-like things in every hotel room.
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