AuthN in Minutes: MFA, EULAs, and Social Auth out of the Box
This was originally published on the Pangea Cyber blog on 16 October 2023. When we think about Authentication, every developer…
My Books to Love & Hate from 2022
After college, I resolved to read one book a month. It can be fiction, non-fiction, technical, business-oriented, or whatever as the…
12 days of ngrok
I originally wrote and published this via the ngrok X account back in 2022. I’m posting it here so it…
The Painful Truth: Your Version One Sucks
When we first picture our new product, it’s wonderful, looks beautiful, and works perfectly every time. We imagine how people…
API Design Smells
In software development, a “Design Smell” is a signal that something isn’t quite right. Think of it like your car…
Getting Started with Webhooks
From the earliest webhooks at Twilio to every major SaaS platform, webhooks have become a defacto standard in web development.…
The Secret of Developer Pricing
Every startup goes through the debate of “How should we do developer pricing?” The conversation normally goes something like this:…
Website Or Shopify?
In my “Startups Suck” post, I alluded to the excitement of being ready to sell. You finally come up with a…
My Reading List (2021)
After college, I resolved to read one book a month. It can be fiction, non-fiction, technical, business-oriented, or whatever as the…
My Startup is Broken
Whenever I advise (or join!) a startup, one of the first conversations goes something like this: “Oh man. Everything here…