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My home has radiators that are 70ish years old.

I was expressing frustration with moving money around the other day and was asked to share what I knew.

Lately most of my writing has been over at Wizard Development's blog.

Earlier this week we had this year's first NodeBots NYC event!

In 2014 our plan was twofold; Help small business's dreams come true and to be a model for how we'd like our industry to operate.

Rick was driving north on I-95, he had to find an uplink or this whole trip had been for nothing.

I was recently helping Sara debug an issue with a project for an upcoming book she's writing a chapter in.

I have a video of my talk at RobotsConf 2013!

There are lots of ways to host, deploy and maintain applications.

I've been reviewing a lot of projects lately and I thought I should share what I look for when evaluating the code quality and maturity of a project.

Any sufficiently mature development team eventually has someone who makes a build status indicator.

I had the absolute pleasure to join the people at Ghostalk the other day for their last episode of the season.

I got into a conversation with someone about their development team.

We're Wizard Development.

I've been making my way through this presentation by Maciej Cegłowski > Some kinds of services are just crying out for decentralization.

Yesterday at JSConf 2014 we had a nodebots event.

I've been doing a lot of outward thinking\* lately about Wizard Development's vision.

> This post was written in 2014 and it's advice is absolutely less relevant today, nevertheless it's one of the top search results for this problem.

If you saw me talk at ManhattanJS you know I have a dream about a decentralized mesh network that supports decentralized applications that cater to our decentra...

I don't write a ton of nodejs modules.

On the NY Hack and Tell mailing list we've been discussing the recent news of Netflix paying Comcast for bandwidth.

Protip: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing headers are sent slightly different between Firefox and Chrome when hosts have a non standard port.

Today is my birthday.

I gave a quick lightening talk last night at Brooklyn Internets.

A while back I was hiring for a junior spot on my team at a largish company.

I gave a talk at BrooklynJS last night on making a decentralized chat server in JS.

I've been asked a few times what to buy when starting with electronics, especially when it comes to micro-controllers and sensors.

Yesterday I gave a talk at Robots Conference called "Electrical Engineering Excitement" or EEE!.

Tonight I gave a talk at General Assembly on making a decentralized chat server in Ruby.

Yesterday marked the end of a several week sprint to improve tests around Johnny-Five.

For some reason tonight all I want to do is figure out how to answer the question "Where is my power coming from?"

I was part of a hack weekend recently that Levo League hosted.

Meraki is a "100 Percent Cloud Managed" switch, this means you have less control in the long run but possibly more options and everything should be easier use. ...

My favorite "exclusive nine-part dialogue with an imaginary eBay Architect" on REST architectures.

Recently I won a trip to NodeConf (a conference about nodeJS) by making a cool little game called "You Laugh You Lose".

"Technology breaks, it aint good, we don't look forward to it, but technology breaks.

This post has been a long time coming.

This is really cool.

I can't imagine that the big screens are that helpful, but they are cool.

"Design is about supplying Intent."

> Freelancers Blues: The thought that at any given moment, at any given day, you could be working.\ > \-Francis Gulotta

Recently I discovered Room to Read.

I'm going to be cross posting my tech related posts over at rbrt.com.

> I split my week into 3 kinds of days - intention, attention and ascension - purpose, focus and the climb.\ > \-John Jantsch

> The value of a piece of information is proportional to the chance that you will act on it times the benefit of acting on it.\ > \-ejames

A friend of mine recently made some really nice personal business cards on moo.com.

From my few years of working in a NOC I've seen a lot of stupid behaviors from devices in regards to monitoring and notifications.

As you may know I work in a Network Operation Center or as my business card says "THE NOC".

Go watch Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" based off the book "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick.