September 13, 2018
Last year, I wrote a small rant called "[When did software go off the rails?](https://blog.jasonhanley.com/2017/08/when-did-software-go-off-rails.html)" which, quite surprisingly, ended up on the [front page of Hacker...
June 10, 2018
As I continue to go through my old blog drafts, this is another one from 2010 where I took down some rough notes and never quite put something together.
August 16, 2017
As CTO of The Rumie Initiative , I spend a decent amount of time trying to find tech solutions that offer "the most for the least" in terms of computing power vs. cost.
December 1, 2015
Kanban, or かんばん in Japanese literally means "signboard". The term comes from the manufacturing world. Implemented first in 1953, it was the precursor to the JIT (just-in-time) manufacturing process used throughout the...
July 11, 2015
A recently published article, " The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America " details some of the problems with the Healthcare.gov launch fiasco that "so bad it nearly broke the Affordable Care...
November 4, 2014
A million dollars isn't cool , but do you know what would be cool? If you could target posts to your friends the same way you with Facebook ads.
March 6, 2014
Developing software is all about writing code and making changes. Unfortunately, sometimes: 1) the changes affect/break other things in unforeseeable ways 2) the changes are misunderstood and implemented incorrectly 3)...
August 25, 2012
As a technologist, the recent Apple vs. Samsung lawsuit is extremely concerning . I was hoping all of this software patent nonsense would go away, but Apple just proved that the new business model is more about...
May 24, 2011
For the longest time, I've been searching for a quick, easy way to take quick meeting notes. I used to use a text editor called SciTE, the same editor I use for quick code editing, but I find managing files in a file...
July 17, 2010
Lots of milestones lately. Almost missed this one! It's been about a year since I unveiled my georeferenced online classified site, BuyMyStuff.com . It's funny.