Software By Miles

Lessons from a startup CTO.

I don’t want your app

There’s no denying that the App Store brought a new wave of innovation, but has that wave crested? Personally, I hope so.

Miles Matthias5 days ago2 min read

Startups & Vacation

I just got back from a five day vacation marking a special occasion for my wife & I. I’m also the CTO of a venture backed…

Miles MatthiasFeb 113 min read

CTO = Engineering + Product

This week Twitter announced their 2015 Q4 earnings and on that call, they briefly mentioned a change in their organizational structure that I think should be mentioned more amongst startup makers like myself. They announced that they moved all of their Engineering, Design, and…

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Miles MatthiasOct 10, 20133 min read

Phonegap sucks.

Our approach to using web content in native apps.

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Miles MatthiasOct 15, 20134 min read

iOS Certificates & Provisioning Profiles

A simple explanation if you’re overwhelmed.

For a new iOS developer, they can be really confusing. You have an app that you simply want other people to be able to test on their device, and you get…

Miles MatthiasNov 11, 20155 min read

Early Stages of a CMS: Custom HTML

Startups, especially, evolve from doing things manually in the beginning to something more complicated, like a full-fledged open source CMS. That process of going from super simple to super complex, from both a business and technical perspective, is really interesting…

Miles MatthiasDec 13, 2015

Remember when the web was damn simple? It still can be. It’s up to us to make it that way.

It’s OK not to use tools

Jonas Downey

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Preach brother preach. Stay simple until you absolutely need to in all things. On the web, CDNs like Netlify and CloudFront are so powerful and simple to use that you always win by staying static if you can.

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