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• Now or never: harnessing growth opportunities in retail

  Tuesday, April 16th 2024

  Amidst a wave of layoffs in the tech sector, retail and consumer businesses have a unique chance to leverage cutting-edge technology and talent, creating an opportunity for growth and innovation.

  A 10 minute read (2.5k words).

• ChatGPT and Generative AI in the enterprise

  Sunday, February 12th 2023

  There is a lot of opportunity for Generative AI from a business technology perspective. Talking with other technology leaders, we discuss what risks and rewards may exist.

  A 1 minute read (207 words).

• Building embodied bots with JavaScript

  Saturday, August 12th 2017

  Explorations of how to build bots with JavaScript that blend virtual and physical worlds, using chat interfaces like Slack to create embodied agents.

  A 1 minute read (184 words).

• Making the move to metalsmith

  Saturday, February 13th 2016

  I moved this site from WP to metalsmith.io in order to get a more pure authoring experience. The result is good, though there were a few gotchas along the way.

  A 7 minute read (1.5k words).

• The meandering journey of NodeBots Interchange

  Tuesday, January 26th 2016

  What started as a plan to simply make components work a bit better with NodeBots turned into a way of managing any firmware using JavaScript.

  A 9 minute read (2.1k words).

• Datatium - data as material for contextually responsive design

  Wednesday, September 9th 2015

  Responsive design is still very screen size focussed where as we should be considering context much more than we do. This talk explains how Datatium helps resolve this.

  A 1 minute read (204 words).

• JavaScript: not just the language of the web

  Monday, September 7th 2015

  JS is moving out of the browser and into all manner of places. My notes and slides from my talk on this topic at JSFoo 15.

  A 1 minute read (337 words).

• Applying the lessons of mobile dev to IoT

  Wednesday, September 2nd 2015

  IoT product development has the opportunity to draw on some of the lessons hard won over the years of developing for mobile.

  A 1 minute read (136 words).

• DDD JavaScript IoT workshop

  Saturday, August 8th 2015

  A summary of the various projects completed as part of the JS IoT workshop given at DDD Melbourne 2015.

  A 1 minute read (119 words).

• Building a portable minecraft server

  Monday, June 1st 2015

  Using a raspberry pi and some batteries to create a portable minecraft server that can be put in a lunch box and taken to the park.

  A 1 minute read (257 words).