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How I fixed TouchID on My MacBook After 3 Months
March 4, 2025
Pretty much from the day I started using my new M4 Pro MacBook, I wasn’t able to use Apple Pay. I had issues with it before so I chalked it up to a...
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Why I'd Rather Spend 2x As Much On My Package Than Ever Go to DHL Again
March 4, 2025
For christmas, my parents sent me a little package. A box with some christmas-sy stuff in it. Very nice, very demure. Unfortunately the package got...
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Post-Mortem: Hockey Campus App
October 1, 2024
After the Hockey Messenger, I built another product called Hockey. Nicknamed “hyperlocal,” the Hockey Campus App was a modern spin on Yik Yak. I...
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About Subscriptions
September 17, 2024
Everyone loves to hate subscription pricing for software. I did, too, for the longest time. My opinion has changed, though. Now, I’m launching my...
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Post-Mortem: Hockey (Messenger)
September 17, 2024
Image: Our competitor gets a nice pay day. I used the brand name Hockey for three things: a messenger I started building in 2022, the C-Corp that’s...
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Post-Mortem: Späti Guide
September 15, 2024
After all the interpersonal drama, we’ll have something more light-hearted today. Späti Guide is a compass that always points its needle to the...
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Post-Mortem: Pineapple
September 12, 2024
My work on Pineapple started as a contractor writing the iOS app. Over time, we talked more about my becoming a full-on co-founder. Even though my...
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Post-Mortem: Bubble
September 10, 2024
I wish I had more of a break to reflect on the traumatic experience of getting kicked out of my startup before Bubble happened. Julius and Frank were...
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Post-Mortem: School Night
September 10, 2024
After building Dub and Knok together, School Night was the most extensive app my then co-founder and I worked on together. The product idea came...
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Post-Mortem: Knok
September 9, 2024
The second product I worked on in 2019 was Knok. Knok grew out of believing that how we use our phones to talk to the most important people in our...
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Post-Mortem: Dub
September 8, 2024
It is the job of the entrepreneur to build many unsuccessful products. That is until one of them turns out to capture an audience and work out. Work...
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Why strand.spreen.co is Now Offline
June 20, 2024
Thank you for navigating to strand.spreen.co I appreciate everyone who got some use out of this archive for the short time it existed. The TL;DR of...
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Building a Stunning Portfolio Website with AI-Powered Tools
May 6, 2024
As a developer, having a compelling portfolio website is crucial for showcasing your skills and attracting potential clients or employers. In the...
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Introducing JSON.swift
April 21, 2024
TL;DR: Link To GitHub A Streamlined JSON Parsing Library for Swift Developers As a Swift developer, you’ve likely encountered the challenges of...
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@spreen/dynamo-objects: Type-Safe DynamoDB Objects in TypeScript to Write Code Faster and Safer
March 18, 2024
TL;DR: Link To GitHub DynamoDB DynamoDB, an AWS-managed NoSQL database, excels in delivering fast, scalable performance ideal for modern serverless...
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Get started with Fargate on AWS: HTTPS Ingress
August 8, 2022
We recently made the switch from GKE to EKS. While both use Kubernetes under the hood, the experience is vastly different. GKE offers more visual...
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Can Computers Think?
May 10, 2017
1 Introduction The question of whether a machine - specifically a computer - can think is older than computers themselves. Especially in the mid-20th...
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