Martin Blampied
Software Development · Tech Startups · Finance · Travel · China
From 1 Month to 1 Hour: How AI Transformed my 2019 Project in 2024
A look at how advancements in AI and development tools have dramatically reduced the time needed to create a simple quiz application. [...]
Review of Morgan Housel’s The Psychology of Money
Whilst it contains nothing ground breaking it does provide some wonderful examples and anecdotes on money, saving and investing. The book opens explaining that everyones relationship with money is different. Upbringing, where we live, what time we were born, education, cultures, what we read — all shape how to behave with money. This makes understanding money more of a psychological problem rather then a mathematical problem to be solved by spreadsheets. [...]
Next.js Braintree subscriptions integration
I recently integrated Braintree subscriptions into a Next.js project as apart of building screengrab.it — and it was not a straight forward as I expected so thought I would document the process here. [...]
The Abandoned Resort of the Maldives
The Maldives. The place conjures images of white sand, crystal clear waters and luxury resorts. The first resort opened in 1972 and since then tourism has flourished with now more than 105 foreign backed resort islands ranging in price from $50 to $30,000 per night. [...]
Machine Learning 101 — my first look
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are hardly new topics in computer science, but were thrust into the mainstream following announcements at last weeks Google I/O. With the maturing smartphones market the big tech companies are looking to new areas of growth; big data, IoT and AI. [...]