Announcing chef-sbt! I’ve been on vacation for the last week from Elemica. So, naturally, that means I decided to learn something new. That something, this time around, was chef. Posted by Matt Farmer on July 26, 2013 · 2 mins read
Idle Drawings: Scaling Web Applications This is the rare occasion I’ll get to enlighten some of my non-technical friends into the kind of stuff that I do in my idle time for fun. Posted by Matt Farmer on July 18, 2013 · 11 mins read
Security for a computer on your face The following is a quote from a PC Mag article about a security vulnerability that was found in Google Glass. Posted by Matt Farmer on July 18, 2013 · 1 min read
Thoughts on Do Things that Don't Scale There are two reasons founders resist going out and recruiting users individually. One is a combination of shyness and laziness. They’d rather sit at home writing code than go out and talk to a bunch of strangers and probably be rejected by most of them. But for a startup to succeed, at least one founder (usually the CEO) will have to spend a lot of time on sales and marketing. Posted by Matt Farmer on July 14, 2013 · 1 min read
Bootstrap Checkpoint Zero I’m a part-time entrepreneur, and I’ve referenced in the past how I’m particularly interested in bootstrapping businesses. This fascination has actually come from the experience I’ve been having working with Justin, Austin, and Hunter on Anchor Tab. Bootstrapping a business is hard, because you’ve got to make hard choices about what to do and what not to do to get something out the door that people will pay for. From an operational standpoint, we have a very specific advantage over some other businesses out there. Posted by Matt Farmer on May 04, 2013 · 7 mins read