Software startups often talk about iterative improvement.  It’s a development model where by you focus on an easy to reach but minimally sustainable business model and then iteratively improve things and add features over time. The process of getting to that first product release is perhaps the hardest thing to do.  It requires having a…

After reading a reddit thread about interesting scripts people have written to automate things I was inspired to put together a quick web scraping script to check the sales at the LCBO and send me a message (on Telegram) if there is anything interesting. Back in the day I would have done something like this…

This past week I had a chance to work on a conversational UI.  It’s a neat way to interact with software and presents an interesting set of problems to implement. Before even starting to build something I needed to decide on some tools to help with managing the conversations. There are a small number of…