19 Sep 2017 WebRTC with async/await Basic WebRTC connection setup can be confusing to understand, and there really is a lot going on that is black magic. Even so, just getting a single page connection going...
17 Jan 2017 Hacking Alexa to send Arbitrary Texts I finally jumped on the Alexa bandwagon this week, and picked up an Amazon Dot. I got the Dot, because it's a lot cheaper than the Echo, and I already...
09 Jan 2017 WebRTC Phone User Experience Last year, &Yet wrote a great series of blog posts with AT&T about WebRTC UX. We love to see this kind of focus in the WebRTC community,...
01 Jan 2016 Simple Image Lazy Loading with Ghost I recently put up a post that happened to contain a bunch of images, and realized that the initial experience was kind of crappy, due to loading all of them...
17 Dec 2015 Surviving Mandatory HTTPS in Chrome Chrome 47 brought a new change, and one that's caused a lot of confusion and irritation for some WebRTC developers. Despite the warnings and PSAs from the WebRTC team at...
29 Nov 2015 Choosing a mobile platform to target As a mobile developer, I often get questions like "Nice site! When's the mobile app coming?" or "we really need an app for this specific need, which platform should we...
15 May 2015 Improved Chrome Extension UX, again A few months ago, Philipp Hancke from &yet posted Improved Screensharing UX on Talky which specifically addresses the UX for first-time users. The problem being addressed is threefold: In...
30 Apr 2015 Passions and Tools I'm of the (unpopular) opinion that being excited about the framework or platform you're using as the focal point of the work you're doing, you're focused on the wrong thing....
31 Mar 2014 Markdown Preprocessor I recently added a feature to my application to serve arbitrary markdown documents from a directory. This is designed to allow authors to populate a folder full of help documents,...
27 Feb 2014 Get Your Feet Wet Before You Ask "How's the water?" One of the most important things we try to teach our non-tech-savvy family and friends when we're helping them with their computers and devices is this: Experiment. Play. Learn. Teach...
29 Jan 2014 Creating an OpenId Relying Party and Provider In .NET Preamble/Motivation I'm working on an MVC web app that will soon be moving to Azure. The big roadblock to moving the application is that it uses LDAP to communicate...
15 Nov 2013 Calling Open Source Software Unpaid Labor and GitHub a Resume There's currently quite a bit of discussion flying around regarding whether GitHub should be used in place of a resume when considering candidates for a software position. Part of this...
