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I’m Back WordPress, I missed you! So Long Hugo, Hello JAMStack!
My career, and development as an engineer, can be followed through the evolution, redesign, and rebuilding of this site — www.jackreichert.com. Initially I launched on shared WordPress hosting, and built on top starter themes. It was rudimentary, but it worked, and I got my first full-time tech job with those skills. As I learned systems…
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Please Unfollow Me
If you followed me during the election because we share values, but you don’t “believe” my people have a right to self determination in their homeland, you can go ahead and unfollow me now. Please let the door hit your backside on the way out. I’m American and Jewish. I was brought to Israel as…
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Rules for a “Smart” Home
The Promise Chips are smaller and cheaper than they’ve ever been. That means that we can measure and control things, affordably, more than we ever could. However, in a race to see what we can possibly create, there are many companies that haven’t thought if they really should be creating what they are. Steve Jobs…
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Two Fundamental Things Wrong with Social Networks
There are many things wrong with social networks and I won’t cover all of them here. But I’d like to address two. Productivity Tech really shines when it comes to making tasks more efficient. But I don’t want my relationships to be more efficient! There was a time before social networks where I had lists…
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Developers Are Lazy, And That’s A Good Thing
Originally published on forbes.com. I’m lazy, and most great developers I know are lazy too. I would much rather spend a day developing an import script to import 2,000-3,000 pieces of content than spend that day manually importing that content. Sure, I could put on a podcast or book in the background while I manually…
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Some Thoughts on Cryptocurrencies
Update, March 16, 2018 Currently the bitcoin energy consumption is ridiculous, and so much more so the entire cryptocurrency space. This is a know issue, that is being dealt with. But here’s the thing. I won’t buy a gas-guzzling car, I won’t invest in oil stocks, I turn my lights out when I’m not using…
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Technological Evolution, Microsoft vs Apple
I’m writing this from my iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard. It’s a beautiful experience. It’s also a natural evolution of where technology has been going. This past week Microsoft has displayed that it understands this. Apple has not. Writing here is not a perfect experience: I still think multitasking on iOS could benefit by…
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The Privacy / Convenience Polarity is a Myth
There is a myth, that if you want to have privacy, it will be at the expense of convenience; and if you want convenience, it will be at the expense of privacy. They say that is the way things have to be, but it really doesn’t have to be this way. Open up your iPhone…
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Say: “Alexa, turn on the living room lights”
Update: It’s creepy, don’t do it. Say it. No, really. Say it aloud. You might feel silly the first time. But the second time it feels great. Especially because Amazon Echo actually works. We were sold the hype of Siri. Sadly, Siri just doesn’t have the knowledge to understand conversational requests, nor the power to…
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Pondering Sam Harris’ thoughts on digital backdoors
Since my last post about encryption vs. security the public debate has exploded due to Tim Cook’s response to the request by the FBI to create a back door in an Apple device. In his most recent podcast Sam Harris weighed in as well. I always look forward to Harris’ perspective on a topic. He…
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