I know many of us haven’t been in a theater for a while, so I wanted to write this short missive about the underappreciated world of theater sound before my next product design post drops. If this sort of technical nerdery isn’t your thing, I get it. Expect the next post on product development in your inbox next week. In the early…
It was 2013. We were watching videos of the Harlem Shake, Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories just came out (and signalled when I was OK admitting EDM was my preferred style of music), and I was in a startup incubator in Fredericton, New Brunswick. I was part of the founding team for a parking app that was going to be the best…
Welcome to the third one of these, I’m excited to keep sharing cool things I’m finding that help with my work and hobbies. Let’s go! TinaCMS is a cool NodeJS-powered Markdown visual editor for websites, that also powers forestry.io. Canada crossed 3.5% vaccinated today (Feb 28), and the speed does seem to be accelerating, but it’s still got a long way to go if…
Earlier last year I wrote an in-depth review of Fonus Mobile, after having been given early access to the new mobile service reseller. I figured it was time to check back in on how the experience has been, and what’s changed since I first reviewed it last year. A New SIM Not long after I wrote my previous review, my SIM card…
Welcome back to the second time I’m doing this (you should subscribe)! Here’s the cool stuff I encountered last week, starting with some shameless self-promotion! As you might know, I like weird tech, and one amazing source of that is Cold War-era technology. I started a new site called ColdWar.tech, along with social accounts on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter. In doing so, I realized just how…
Why? Because I can, and you should subscribe. I’ll share some technical tricks and cool things I’ve discovered from across my online travels every Sunday. Someone on TikTok showed off how to make an automatic license plate reader for the highway beside his house and shows off how to do it in 60 seconds. Stoic is trying to become the Betterment or…
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been researching and collecting information on Cold War technology (a topic of personal interest for me). I’ve been gathering information on how technology advanced and infrastructure was built in the shadow of a fear of nuclear war. As I’ve been doing this research, I find a lot of sources for this information are brittle at…
My experiences with Fonus began at the end of last year, on November 21st when I heard about a disruptive mobile provider that wanted to provide global, unlimited service for a low fixed fee (presently listed at $30USD/Month). I need to disclose that I was part of an initial promotion where the first 500 people to purchase a SIM card on the…