Matt G

How Shortcuts Keyboard has saved me time

I built a little iPhone keyboard called Shortcuts Keyboard. My goal was simple: to create a custom keyboard for the iPhone that would save me time by efficiently using shortcuts.Here's how I've used it so far. 1. Making money. I've been able to

The Future of Live Events

It's been about 6 months since I've joined Sidestep and I wanted to share with you a bit about where we see live events going in the future. I spotted this medium post about the future of live events being in your pocket. It's

Switching to Github Issues from Asana

We really like Asana. It's powerful and incredibly flexible. You can use it however you'd like. However, it doesn't work well for us and our engineering team because it's too far from the code. Asana makes things easy because it doesn'

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How I use Shortcuts on the iPhone

Recently, I had to go out of town. I had a pair of tickets to an event (go sharks!) and I was going to miss it. I wanted to get something for the tickets so they didn't go to waste. I sent out a group email and then

"G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring"

In a New York Times piece Laszlo Bock interviews Google's head of PR. One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless — no correlation at all except

Diamond Curiosity

How do you know that DeBeers isn’t fabricating diamonds in a lab and then emblazoning them with a serial number as if they were found in some mine in Africa? Then, they sell them for insane margins and remain a huge controller of diamonds. Lab made diamonds are the

Why Education Should be Creative and Free

Logan is my hero. He is 13. Skiing to me is freedom and so is my education. It's about doing things differently. It's about community and helping each other. What's amazing, is that he's figured out what took me 18 years to

Who is the man in pink shaking things up?

Wearing a pink t-mobile t-shirt under his blazer and his tennis shoes, John Legere is the man shaking up the cellular network industry. He's a rebel, former AT&T employee, and not shy to saying that the industry blows and that the biggest carriers offer horseshit. He&

2013 Year in Review

A lot happened to me in 2013. I moved out of the Toy Room and up 280 where I secured a place of my own in one of the most expensive cities in the country, joined and contributed greatly to two companies and started a few projects of my own.

Bill Gates Funds A Smartphone Battery That Runs On Human Urine

The scientists have demonstrated their wee-powered battery charging a smartphone. They've been awarded a grant from Bill Gates' foundation to develop the tech further. via Business Insider. Just a wee bit of energy.

This badass wears a pink tutu

And he does it for his wife who is fighting breast cancer. Six months after the move, Linda, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She beat it, only to have it recur in 2006. During these past nine years, I’ve been in awe of her power, her beauty, and her

Passion is Bullshit

Boom - That's the sound of people's heads exploding across Silicon Valley and wherever else (even my own). If you talk to a billionaire and you ask him, what was the secret to your success, he will often say, “passion.” But what else could he say

A dollar an hour

I wanted to spend some time givng back this holiday season and here's how I'm doing it. I'm making myself available for $1 for the first hour, $2 for the second, $3 for the third, etc. Each time someone uses my services for an

4 Ways to get more work from Freelance Job Boards

Job boards.. yuck, right? Filled with people wanting to be the next Mark Zuckerberg by shelling out $500 for a Facebook clone, crazies, and the unrealistic. However, there are some diamonds in the rough – here's how to find them. 1. Search for buzzwords/phrases and avoid them like

The Third Star

If you watched last night's game between the Washington Captials and the Philadelphia Flyers, you saw the brawl in the third period. If you have any sense of decency, you'll know that Ray Emery does not deserve a third star. A goalie's job is

Using Puma with NGINX

I want my Ruby on Rails applications to be fast, really fast. Typically, during the prototyping stage, I tend to use Heroku for quick deployment (I still think that's a great solution during prototyping), but it can quickly become expensive when adding things like memcached, workers, multiple processes,

This is Ghost and I'm giving it a try

I've built my own blogging platform 3-4 times (I can't exactly remember) such as Smple: http://blog.mattg.me However, I think I've found my match (and probably something far better that's actively developed). It's called Ghost and I suggest

Taco Copter: one-click taco delivery

Flying Robots Deliver Tacos To Your Location Taco Copter Sign me up.

PayPal Introduces PayPal Here

They can accept payments by swiping cards with a fully encrypted thumb-sized card reader, or use a phone camera to scan and process cards and checks. It also allows them to invoice directly from the mobile app and, of course, accept PayPal in a brand new way. [PayPal Here] It’

Oink Shuts Down

We started Milk Inc. (the company behind Oink) to rapidly build and test out new ideas. Oink was our first test and, in preparing to move onto the next project, we’ve decided to shut it down to help focus our efforts. At first it seemed like a great idea,

this is an experiment to use voice dictation to write a blog post

Okay here we go. I wonder what happens when I say the word. If you can write the word. And out the punctuation mark. Apparently I don’t know how to say the word. There’s no editing in this post is completely done by voice dictation. There is as

How to get Rich Quick

1. Work very hard. 2. Redefine the definition of Quick.

Yay Codes!

Managing app promo codes on iOS is painful and time consuming. This is a pretty nice solution and they even have a demo of what  you’re customers will see.

How to sync up iMessages on the Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Today Apple introduced a beta version of Messages – the desktop counterpart to messages on iOS devices. It’s a preview of what’s to come in Mountain Lion and exactly what I’ve wanted for quite some time. My iMessages are now everywhere: on my iPhone, my Mac, and my

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