You may have guessed (if you read the rest of this blog) that I'm all-in on the web. I believe native apps are useful for some things, but not all things. So I'm all-in on the Jamstack approach.

I've long been a fan of Atlassian, and their approach to building a developer economy. I love that Mike Cannon-Bookes and Scott Farquhar bootstrapped Atlassian into existence.

The phrase "you make your own luck" entered through my years many times during my life, and exited my mouth even more times than that. I'm a big believer in it.

Back in the earlier days of the internet - before cryptocurrencies - "e-currencies" were all the rage. Beenz.com was one of them.

Before my soon-to-be three year old offspring arrived into the world, I didn't really think much about sleep. Weekend lie-ins were frequent, jetlag was a semi-normal byproduct of my day job, and late nights in bars and restaurants were a reasonably frequent occurrence.

I've lived through enough unfinished software projects to know why they end up that way. Too much time spent debating, scoping, and scribing. Not enough time building. Not enough time creating.

I've written in the past about Dieter Rams, and my favourite of his 10 principles for good design - Less, But Better. Yet, practical examples of these principles in practice are tough to track down.

I just finished reading Super Pumped, by Mike Isaac, for the second time (my first pass at it was in late 2019).

Before Facebook was a "thing" here in Ireland, we were all addicted to Bebo. Today, Bebo is still dead in the water and Facebook is... still Facebook.

I've long been a believer that true Platforms don't magically appear by integrating products together.

Public companies share revenue updates on a quarterly basis, and share year-over-year growth metrics with their audiences. Solo entrepreneurs should follow the same path.

I've written before about the earlier days of Facebook's Ads Products. "Ship it, see if it sticks" wasn't a mantra, but it well could have been. Every day was a test and learn day. Fun, but scary.

AI has clearly "arrived" but how can we use it — rather than fear it — to harness its full potential?

Since its launch in June 2020, it now seems GPT-3 is eating the world. gpt3demo.com, by Apideck makes that new reality a visual, tangible one.

Yesterday Shopify released Q4 2020 earnings. Once again, the numbers were eye-wateringly good.