Kontroversial Keith

Category: technology

  • HBONow Goes Down; Game of Thrones Fanbase Rages

    HBONow had a highly embarrassing outage right on the night of the most highly anticipated Game of Thrones episode of the season. It’s the dread that every developer faces who has to deal with capacity issues but it also demonstrates the possible lack of knowledge the non-technical people have in understanding their audience at the…

  • Why Your Ad Systems Suck Ass

    I’ve been reading more articles on why advertisers want to start changing the rules on their systems as a result of the rise of ad blockers. While most people get the idea from a high level, the real issue is that the advertisements themselves suck, the way they display suck and most are fucking irrelevant.…

  • Twitter Authentication/Connect Useless?

    I had to do a project using both Facebook and Twitter authentication for single sign-on. While Facebook had some traction, I found that Twitter was barely in use. Perhaps, less than 0.03% of the users used that feature. After reading some forums early on, I learned that many companies opt not to use Twitter for…

  • The Voyage of Pluto, New Horizons and A Lifetime Goal

    When I was in the 5th grade, I became immensely interested in astronomy. I saw some recorded program on PBS which featured our solar system. The images of all the planets and mysteries of these worlds intrigued me into wanting more knowledge on the subject. I would find books at home that covered the subject…

  • Why Too Many External Dependencies Is Detrimental to Your Website

    People love the whole idea of mashups with technology in terms of consuming APIs, using plugins or 3rd party widgets. However, as websites scale and grow more complex, depending on these 3rd party dependencies is actually problematic. This blog discusses the issues surrounding the situation.

  • How to Properly Use An Ad Blocker

    One of my biggest pet peeves is the return of the popup subscription box. Unlike the old popup/pop-under style Javascript boxes, you cannot easily prevent these from showing up. Usually, they are the incarnation of some desperate content site who will sell your email address to a hundred other soulless spam bots to keep their…

  • Twitch TV: Determining When and Why You Should Get A Subscription Button

    Many streamers have the goal of getting a subscription button as it represents a sort of holy grail as a status symbol on Twitch. However, one thing I’ve noticed is that there seems to be this underlying desire that by getting a subscription button, people can just sit at home and play games all day,…

  • Why Developers Need to Start Rejecting New Languages, Tools and Frameworks

    The title of this blog post might seem a bit misleading at first but the crux of my argument centers around a huge problem in the development world: the proliferation and sheer abundance of too many languages, tools and frameworks. Part of my frustration as a developer is that the number of these tools (in…

  • Postgresql on Windows 7 and Rails Installation Nightmares

    So recently, I decided to give Heroku a shot along with Ruby on Rails for my backend development. Heroku though uses Postgres as their default database whereas Rails uses sqlite3. To get everything synch’d up, I finally decided to switch my local environment to use Postgres. Instead, this thing turned out to be a pretty…

  • AngularJS 2.0: Did They Shoot Themselves in the Foot?

    Right now, AngularJS seems to be one of the hottest emerging front end technologies for developers. Virtually, every recruiter has been calling me up and asking me about my AngularJS background (despite only possessing a year of it). However, there was a blog post talking about the major changes for the 2.0 version. And it’s…