Author: E S

Every year, I do a retrospective in which I review the past year. Up until this year, I've kept those retrospectives private, for many reasons: I'm a fairly private person (though this year I've tried to change that a bit). I've been afraid I didn't measure up. I've been afraid that things I think might… Continue reading 2018 Retrospective

As someone who's worked from home for years, I've been asked about this a lot. How do I concentrate when I'm at home? How do I get things done? What keeps me from playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time all day? I think people ask me this because they think about how they behave at home… Continue reading Staying motivated while working from home

Ugh, Facebook, amiright? You've probably seen the news about how awful FB is about privacy, and how they've been sucking up all the info they can squeeze out of you and giving it to advertisers and other billion dollar companies. How can you mitigate this? You may be thinking it's too late, or that what… Continue reading Protecting yourself from Facebook

I hate waking up. A lot. Conversely, I love staying up late. This does not for a happy morning make. As I have struggled with this for most of my life, I thought I'd enumerate some of the coping mechanisms I've developed to deal with getting up in the morning. But first, a quick story… Continue reading Waking up when you’re NOT a morning person

As a mobile app developer, I work with APIs a lot. The vast majority of them use JSON. Due to a refactor of the MBTA's API for the Boston T (and on past projects) I had the extreme misfortune to work under the JSON API format. The reason it's so awful for mobile devs is… Continue reading Why I hate “JSON API 1.0” – a Mobile Dev’s perspective

I used to work at Mobiquity, Inc. as their head of mobile security, and a lot of what I did was make sure their iOS apps were as secure as possible. The thing is, a determined attacker will always succeed – our job as a developers is to make their life hard, so that less-than-determined attackers… Continue reading iOS Security 101

One hundred and forty one. Close as I can guess, that's how many planes I've been on. Between travel for work, vacations, digital nomading, school, and my family living far from where I do, I travel a lot. So, with all that experience, there are some things I've picked up over the years that I'd… Continue reading Air travel tips

I've written before about the tech that I think has a future and the tech that doesn't. This is an update to that post, with recent developments and some new technologies added to the list. The Next Big Things Mixed Reality (aka MR) Here's a quick review, stolen from my previous post, about some of the… Continue reading The Future of Tech II