Blog - Mike Cann

Quite some time ago now a good friend and fellow squash player shared an idea he had with me, to create a system that is able to track a squash ball during a game and project realtime information onto the back wall.

This is one of those super annoying things that took me a while to discover and I was unable to find any prior art on it so I thought I would share. ...

Well all good things must come to an end and Post To Tumblr has had 14 excellent years.

I wanted to experiment more with the NFT space.

Ever since I was a baby I have loved the water.

Wow how fast did 2021 go?

Well its been years in the planning and months in the development but the "Big Summer Update" / "Seasons" / V1 update for our game [BattleTabs](https://battletabs.com) is finally out!

3 years ago while [working at Bamboo](/posts/started-at-bamboo) I was introduced to the concept of [Event Sourcing](https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html) for the first time.

My PC is awesome but it has a bit of an addiction to Watts.

Back in in the before-times of May 2020 OpenAI made a [stunning announcement](https://openai.com/blog/tags/announcements/) about the capabilities of their latest project named GPT3.

This post is a little different to my usual but the incident had me thinking so I thought I would share.. ...

Just a small post today sharing with you a really cool project that I have only recently become aware of. ...

When I was sent a replacement for my broken [Versa 1](https://www.fitbit.com/global/us/products/smartwatches) by Fitbit they decided to upgrade me to a Versa 2.

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Im not sure how I first came across [Dfinity](dfinity.org) and the Internet Computer project but when I heard about the technologies they were using (Blockchain, Actors, Motoko) and the goals they were striving for I knew I had to have a tinker. ...

Its no secret that im a bit of a tinker'er and this blog seems to bear the brunt of my experiments. ...

We were suffering from slow integration tests on our server when I discovered something that sped up performance by 15 times!

We were having serious memory issues on the Heroku hosted NodeJS backend for our game [BattleTabs](https://battletabs.com) when we decided to apply "this one little trick"... ...

After months of hard work we are excited to announce that our latest and largest ever update to [BattleTabs](https://www.battletabs.com/) is finally live!

This is a technique my girlfriend I have have been practicing every day for years now so I thought I would share. ...

Its no secret that im a fan of MobX and have been using it for many years now.

Im proud to announce my latest project: Joshua Christopher Cann :) ...

I have generally steered away from building open-source libraries mainly for selfish reasons (I didn't want to spend the time maintaining them) but I decided that the current work I was doing would benefit from input and improvement from others and so I d…

After months and months its finally done!

This blog has been going for a long time and in the early days it was a mixture of Personal updates and technical updates. ...

Ever since I [built my own smart mirror](/posts/mikes-mirror-the-talk) back in 2018 I have been keen to do another hardware project... ...

Back in August 2019 I have a talk at the local [Front End Web Developers (Fenders)](https://www.meetup.com/Front-End-Web-Developers-Perth/) meetup group here in Perth.

A couple of months ago my [Markd](https://markd.ltd/) co-founder [Brandon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/theBrandonWu) came up with an great idea for a new app, we mulled it over, ran a few experiments and decided to build it, thus [Howdy](https://howdy.pag…

Just a quick post on my recent attendance of the one-day hackathon "Energy Hack". ...

This one has been quite a while in the making but im proud to announce this innovative new game we have been working on. ...

Lately we (Markd Ltd) have been working on a few different projects, today we are announcing another of those projects; [Post To Google Photos](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/post-to-google-photos/lafpnfnchohhamoidohgmljijeafebbf). ...

Lately we (Markd Ltd) have been working on a few different projects, today we are happy to announce one of those new projects, [LinkedIn Notes](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/linkedin-notes/efjjkjipkkciokjblkmmfbihellibile). ...

Todays post is a little different from my usual technical or business related posts, its a tale of search and discovery.. ...

Its been a little while since I have done a pure tech focused blog post but I discovered an issue with React Hooks and Chrome Extensions for which I could find no mention of anywhere on the internet so I thought I would share the issue and my solution. ...

Just a quick update today about a new feature for [Markd](https://markd.co): Import from LinkedIn ...

Its taken us a little while to get this right but we are proud to announce the latest feature for [Markd](https://markd.co): Import from Google Contacts. ...

Thick and fast on the heels of our last new feature [Custom Fields](/markd/markd-custom-fields) today we are happy to announce our latest feature: Notes. ...

Now we have our [new designs](/markd/markd-v3) in place for [Markd](https://markd.co) things can start moving again on new features.

Wow its taken a little longer than we would have liked but finally we have finally released the completely redesigned and rewritten [Markd](https://markd.co) website, extension and server!

Its been almost 2 years since I had to change anything with my blog but unfortunately 2 years is a long time in web development, and my blog needed some love. ...

Its been an adventurous month of travel, activities and hard work on our exciting new venture [Markd](https://markd.co). ...

So Friday marks what could be a very important day for me.

I spent a few hours tinkering with the new (alpha release) version of React which includes the new React Hooks feature.

I totally forgot to post about the various talks I gave this year so I thought I would take a few minutes and post about them. ...

Its been quite some time since my original post on The Sleeping Headphones Saga so I thought it was time I updated with my current situation my my experiments since then. ...

I love the mix-streaming service Mixcloud but its unfriendly user-interface was really starting to bug me so I whipped up this little tool to help. ...

In the [spirit of repeating myself](http://mikecann.blog/tasks-for-trello/tasks-for-trello-a-trello-tasks-rewrite/).

After my many [hard-learnt-lessons](/posts/mikes-mirror-overview) building a Smart Mirror the past few months, I decided it might be a good idea to share some of those lessons with others in the community. ...

Just a quick employment update today. ...