Startups and Technology

Fun with Assembly 4: Breaking canaries, boomerangs and stacks

Fun with Assembly 3: Deeper into the Assembly Beast

Fun with Assembly 2: Backdoors and Master Passwords

Fun with Assembly 1: How your Computer Actually Works

This article is about what is actually going on inside your computer when you’re running software. It’s part of a series about how much fun assembly can be, designed to be readable by anyone trying to improve their coding and computer science skills. It covers the CPU, RAM, registers and assembly language.

The Internet of Things will Blow up your House and Trap You in Your Car

Everyone I speak to at the moment seems excited about the Internet of Things. Everything in your home could be online, communicating and being controlled. Your fridge could Snapchat you when you run out of milk! Your shower could turn on the toaster when you stop running the water!

Rails at 10: DHH Digested

Video: Getting MVPs Right

Here’s a talk I gave back in April on the many misunderstandings people have about Minimum Viable Products.

Dense Bitpacking

Premature optimisation (optimising things when you don’t know that they need optimising) is the root of much terrible C++ code. This technique is an example of immature optimisation, which means optimising things when they definitely don’t need optimising but doing it anyway because it’s kind of fun.

Filtering your startup ideas

This post is for people who are just starting out. When you’re just beginning your startup, you’re not looking for PR, investment, growth hacking, finance / tax / accounting / legal help.

You're thinking about MVPs all wrong

Or more accurately: you’re thinking about MVPs all wrong, probably.