This article is technical deep dive into aspects of the QuirkLocal architecture. I’ll give a brief overview of how we used to build application infrastructure, and then talk about containers and how QuirkLocal uses them to provide a modern, highly automated, and efficient application platform. Pre-history: Bare Metal There’s been a revolution in systems architecture …
Building a modern application is a complex business. You can build a native phone app, but sadly if you do this, you will usually have to code two versions of it, one for iOS and one for Android. There are cross platform app development toolkits, which allow you to use one codebase for both of …
I’m not the only one with the crazy idea of making a hyper-local platform for news and social media. You might think that’s a bad thing, competition! But I see it more as a validation of the basic idea, and I don’t think anybody’s figured it all out quite yet. There’s a lot of space …
One of the most common traps a software company can fall into is ‘feature-itis’, the notion that all your product needs for success is just one more feature. I know from experience developing very successful products that sometimes even simple software can have significant value for the right customer. At Yes Energy, a company I …
I started QuirkLocal a little over a year ago with the idea that we could make news and social media better. We could do better than newsprint, while at the same time creating a tamer, more civil place for local discussions. The history of the last 15 years of Internet media has been one of …