Randall Degges

Entries

• I'm Writing Again
  August 03, 2024

  I can’t believe it’s been over two years since I last published an article here! Time really flies. The crazy part is...

• Does Music Help You Focus?
  April 04, 2022

  I’ve always been the sort of person who works with music in the background. Ever since I was a little kid writing cod...

• Real Estate vs Stocks
  April 04, 2022

  As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a bit of a personal finance nerd. I’ve been carefully tracking my spending and investin...

• Journaling: The Best Habit I Picked Up in 2021
  February 28, 2022

  2021 was a challenging year in many ways. Other than the global pandemic, many things changed in my life (some good, ...

• How to Calculate the Energy Consumption of a Mac
  January 30, 2022

  I’m a bit of a sustainability nerd. I love the idea of living a life where your carbon footprint is neutral (or negat...

• How I Converted a REST API I Don't Control to GraphQL
  October 03, 2021

  I’ve been building and working with REST APIs for many years now. Recently, however, I’ve been spending more and more...

• The Feature Snowball
  May 03, 2020

  The “feature snowball”, as I like to call it, is a product and time management technique I’ve been successfully imple...

• Defensive Finance in a Downturn
  April 07, 2020

  I live in the bay area of the United States in a suburb of San Francisco. At the time of writing, I’ve been in isolat...

• Don't Waste Time Getting Feedback
  April 05, 2020

  Time is valuable. In fact, time is the single most valuable thing any of us have. That’s why I think it’s so importan...

• The Only Type of API Services I'll Use
  February 17, 2020

  I love API services. It still feels magical each time I query an endpoint and get back some interesting data or cause...

• My Personal Financial Strategy
  January 17, 2020

  I’ve always been fascinated by money: how people earn it, spend it, and invest it. What fascinates me most about pers...

• Please Stop Using Local Storage
  January 26, 2018

  Seriously. Just stop it already. I don’t know what it is, exactly, that drives so many developers to store session in...

• How EU Cookie Law Myths Affect Web Security
  January 21, 2018

  Over the last few years you might have noticed banners like this one popping up on a lot of web pages: These banners ...

• To 30 Billion and Beyond
  January 03, 2018

  Several years ago I created a free web service, ipify. ipify is a freely available, highly scalable ip address lookup...

• How to Monetize Your Website with Cryptocurrency Mining
  December 10, 2017

  I’m a big fan of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. They have a number of interesting applications, one of...

• Authentication Still Sucks
  August 29, 2017

  I currently own 47 domain names. I know it sounds like a lot, but that’s down quite a bit from my all-time high of 78...

• Too Busy
  March 31, 2017

  For the last handful of years I’ve been too busy to do a lot of things. Too busy to launch new products on my free ti...

• I Don't Give a Shit About Licensing
  July 14, 2016

  Every now and then I’m reminded of just how much I hate software licensing. Instead of doing what I normally do and s...

• Obsessing Over Availability is Dumb
  December 29, 2015

  Over the past handful of years, as I’ve been building and working on several very large and very public API services,...

• Two Years of Evangelism
  December 18, 2015

  In a couple short months, I’ll have been at Stormpath for two full years. It’s pretty insane how fast the time has fl...