I hear a lot of people complaining about having to make up and remember passwords all the time. I came up with what I think is a foolproof technique. Instead of just explaining it to my friends and family as I lecture them about using a password manager and how much easier they their lives…

I attended my first Webstock this year and I was blown away. I wasn’t aware going into the conference that it usually has a political element to it but apparently this year was step up. Interspersed with more traditional technical or interest driven talks were honest people getting up and saying what they felt about…

After my first day at the brand new Intergen offices in Wellington I’m reflecting on how much I’ve changed over the years both professionally and personally. The most important change is how much more connected I feel to Aotearoa, to our people and to my home city of Ōtautahi Christchurch. For the longest time I…

Right now there is a lot of buzz around Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) and all the major players are jumping into some form of voice controlled services focussed on reducing the friction between user’s and their devices. Over the years the imagination of science fiction world has inpiring and predicting future technology. I think once…

Unfortunately I feel a lot people looking to get into React get bogged down with all the buzz around Flux or Redux, server rendering, build tools etc… All of which are not actually part of React itself. I thought I’d write a short tutorial to teach you the basics. This is part 1 of 2…

Visual Studio Code(VS Code) is a great text editor that can used to debug Node, C#.NET, TypeScript and thanks to its extensions and marketplace many more! I’ve been using VS Code since it came out for debugging JavaScript and later .NET Core but recently I as I was developing this website (in WordPress) I decided…