Last year I had to do a little accounting for my startup, formerly a Delaware C-Corporation, and was shocked to discover that a large amount of my expenses for the year went toward registering domain names! At the moment I own 71 different domains, all bought with good intention, none purchased for the purpose of domain name squatting. Crazy right? That’s the thing about being creative in the web and mobile app business, you are going to have to work through many ideas only to have a few come to fruition. The end result? You end up purchasing 71 domain names a year!
So… I’ve discovered a little hack that I want to share with my internet friends on how to save money registering domains: Don’t purchase a .com (or worse an expensive .io) domain name first, start with a $0.99 .xyz domain. Then make sure to un-enroll in auto-renewal so you don’t get billed $15 or whatever when the new year rolls around. So there you have it. Save money buying $0.99 .xyz domains and your dollar will far 🙂

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I saw this post on Hacker News today and felt compelled to write a short little post on the subject– Ask HN: How to found a company as a single founder? 
Here is my reply:

If you know how to program, don’t force the cofounder thing. It’s really easy to end up bringing on crummy cofounders. Look at Facebook and SnapChat. In my experience it’s typical to end up bringing on an Eduardo, a Winklevoss twin, or a Reggie Brown, then you have to get rid of them because they’re terrible and literally aren’t capable of contributing anything.

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About six months ago I landed my first professional programming job teaching kids to code at theCoderSchool in Flower Mound, TX. And right from the start, it became apparent that kids learning how to code are interested in much different things than adults. While adults are mainly interested in learning to create web and mobile applications, kids want to learn how to make games! One of my goals since starting this new job was to develop a tutorial/lesson on how to create a simple console game, and tonight at around 2:00am I made my first step towards developing this lesson: I built a Hello, World app in JavaScript, and was able to successful run it on my brand new Xbox One! I was super stoked about this, so I wanted to make sure I made a note of how to do this here on my blog in case anyone else is interested.
Step One: Register as a Microsoft/Windows App Developer
Step Two: Enroll in the Xbox Live Creators Program
Step Three: Enable Developer Mode on Your Xbox One
Step Four: Enable Developer Mode on Your Windows 10 PC
Step Five: Create a Hello, World App (UWP) in JavaScript using Microsoft Visual Studio
Step Six: Run the App on a Remote Machine (Your Xbox)

Hello there internet friends! I purchased this domain not too long ago with the intention of publishing software development related blog posts, thoughts on startups, and other things that I would like to have indexed by Google. But since I haven’t actually written any dev related posts yet, I think maybe I’ll use my new WordPress site to save little bits of wisdom and whatnot. So here’s a gem from Dr. Jordan Peterson on why there aren’t creative people:

Here you go Twitter, here is my callback url! I haven’t actually setup a server for my new Twitter app, so this will have to do for now. Hopefully this will suffice for now 🙂

TWTTR PLYGRND is a Twitter app meant for use only by Christopher Pedersen for purposes of learning how to use the official Twitter API. If you are not Christopher Pedersen, please do not use TWTTR PLYGRND as this is a violation of the app’s terms of service. As for TWTTR PLYGRND’S privacy policy, this app does not collect any personal information, except for Christopher Pedersen’s data. TWTTR PLYGRND collects Christopher Pedersen’s personal data.

• RoboStop does not collect any user data whatsoever.
• While the app does have access to users’ contacts, and monitors incoming calls, the app does not relay any of this information back to any centralized servers.
• In fact, the app runs entirely “client-side” on users’ devices.

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