2020/02/18
We live in an era of scale. Most things in software have to be large to be interesting. We’ve seen the explosion of microservices, pipelines, and all sorts of other things. Those things can be great. But I cannot help but feel that growth in the number and complexity of the tools we use lead to many of us being too separated from the problems we’re trying to solve.
Software, especially cloud-native software, has gotten to an amazing point where we can quickly build things in a weekend that would have taken months not too long ago. We have amazing web frameworks like Phoenix that are simple to use, scale well, and keep piling on incredibly functionality like LiveView every release. We have tools like SaltStack that let us manage and configure hordes of systems easily. But with these tools at our fingertips those often become the ones we reach for without thinking.
2018/01/19
Earlier this month Luma was acquired by Newell (Fortune #208). Our team will be joining First Alert, Newell’s security and safety division, to build connected products under the OneLink brand. I’m excited that all of the engineers and product managers on my team will be coming along to Newell to make sure that our fleet of Lumas continue to be well taken care of.
We announced the first OneLink device that will include Luma’s software at CES last week, and I cannot wait to get it launched later this year.
2016/02/01
This was the first time I was able to go to the Consumer Electronics Show, and it was an experience. Being able to see all the new products up close as they’re being announced to the world was awesome. There are some neat things out there, and the partnership conversations that happen inside of a single week are unbelievable.
We’re on the right track with Luma. The connected home is exploding and people are going to need a way to secure and control their IoT devices, and their kids devices, more than ever.
2015/11/05
Wow. Today we unveiled Luma, the project I’ve been working on for most of the last year. We’re going to completely change the way that people feel about their WiFi. We’re building on the mesh concepts that have been used in some enterprise and industrial uses, and bringing them into homes. And since our founding team all have a long history in cybersecurity they’ll be no shortage of security and control features.
2013/09/10
While many of my colleagues were away at Blackhat, Defcon, and Bsides Las Vegas I decided to spend a day exploring through an Android app. I became interested in this particular app due to it being the “official” app of a popular web service that included some functionality not exposed to end users through the API that they’ve provided and this annoyed me, as I was reasonably sure that some spammers on this web service were using this functionality and I was interested to see just how difficult it was to do. Fun began.
