This a bit old already, but came to my attention only today. Every Product Manager, Designer and Front End Engineer should read and repeat this every day. Every corporate marketing guy should print and frame this and have it hanging somewhere in sight from his desk.
The older I get, the more I realize the biggest problem to solve in tech is to get people to stop making things harder than they have to be.
— chad fowler (@chadfowler) September 23, 2015
Box-256 is a browser game 
where you need to solve
small tasks, e.g. let a program draw a square, in your browser. Through writing assebly. Since I wrote quite a bit assembly throughout my career, I thought this is interesting. Still, I failed at level one. Mostly because of impatience.
Source: BOX-256 – Tiny game about writing assembly to pass the graphics tests.
nomorecubes.net now (finally) leverages https!
It has a certificate from letsencrypt, automatically verified by the service, maintained and deployed by docker-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion.
The deployment has been considerably easy through docker-compose, adding the container to the existing nginx-proxy like this:
version: '2' services:nginx-proxy: image: jwilder/nginx-proxy container_name: nginx-proxy ports: - "80:80" - "443:443" volumes: - "./certs:/etc/nginx/certs:ro" - "/etc/nginx/vhost.d" - "/etc/nginx/conf.d" - "/usr/share/nginx/html" - "/var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro" letsencrypt: image: jrcs/letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion volumes: - "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro" - "./certs:/etc/nginx/certs:rw" volumes_from: - nginx-proxy
A few links I came across this week I believe are relevant for the Internet of Things. This is neither complete nor conclusive, but maybe helpful for somebody else.
The “Internationale Funk-Ausstellung” 2016 opened it’s doors in Berlin, for the 53rd time since 1923, making it one of the oldest trade fairs for consumer technology.
EEBus, a European lead initiative for interoperability in the Internet of Things, announced a liaison agreement with the Thread Group.
Wired Germany has an commentary.
Claiming to behave like a startup in specific areas is a common theme in enterprises, and so did GE adopt the phrase to claim innovation, too. The NYtimes has an article.
https://twitter.com/samkottler/status/751104712259297280
Heise.de, a german IT news site, reports Loxone, an Austrian vendor, works with default passwords in it’s Home Automation products.
As exciting the #SYP2016 in Regensburg has been, it has been volunteers that made it happen. That means, just like all the other IEEE volunteers, the organizing team has not been paid to do it and they did it in their spare time.
Therefore, a huge applause to those sacrificing their spare time from work and family to make the events happen and contribute to the profession.
Fortune has an article on how Amazon Web Service and Microsoft dominate the cloud market. No surprise there, though. Also, that Google comes in third is no huge surprise.
http://fortune.com/2016/08/04/amazon-microsoft-cloud-race/
A few weeks into the new role, I’m busy with all the new and exciting responsibilities. Being in charge for a product is fantastic, all along with the rising technology in the Internet of Things makes it a really unique experience. Also the approach to the market broadens my horizon and there are so many things I should be writing about, but cannot find the time. Also, a new article for the TEMS Leader is in the making, which keeps me off nomorecubes.
The project is not abondoned yet, though, just like it had ups and downs over the years.
Peter Bourgon has some experience with go, and he shares this on his website. Go is a language developed at Google 2007 and released to the public in 2009. In first place, this is fairly unrelated, but we’re currently evaluating go as a language for an IoT project, which makes it fit the topic of this blog.
Even though go does a great job providing a newbie with an environment to get started, there are experiences you can avoid making, listening to somebody that did it before.
Googles approach to the smart home gateway on their OnHub Router.
This router wants to be more than a router—but Echo is still more robust for talking to your home.
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