Co-founder and CTO at Workvivo. Likes to code with React, React Native and Laravel.
May 18, 2020 • 12 minute read
I was immensely proud last week as we announced that Workvivo had raised a $16.2 million (€15m) Series A investment round, led by Tiger Global in New York, with participation from Frontline Ventures and Enterprise Ireland. This week we also marked 3 years since John and I made th...
May 1, 2020 • 5 minute read
Back in November 2015, I wrote a Medium post about using Laravel's subdomain routing feature with custom domain names, something that is important for many multi-tenant applications. There was always one thing about this solution that bugged me however, and recently I decided to...
February 21, 2018 • 2 minute read
To post large (>15 MB, >30 second) videos using the Twitter API, you need to use their chunked media upload API rather than the basic media upload API. This is a little more complicated, but thankfully it's still pretty straightforward. In this post I'll be using the Codebi...
September 25, 2017 • 1 minute read
I ran into a problem this morning when I tried to launch a React Native app I've been working on in the iOS Simulator using the command: $ react-native run-ios The build would fail completely and return the error message Could not parse the simulator list output. That's not good!...
September 20, 2017 • 2 minute read
Today DigitalOcean announced a great new product called Spaces that is essentially a much cheaper version of Amazon's S3 object storage product. For $5 per month, you get 250GB of storage and 1TB of bandwidth included. This would cost over $95 per month with S3. Additional storag...