The personal website of Matt Henderson

Why keeping it simple would be a better choice for TransferWise

07 September 2016

In the world of web application development, we sometimes face technical decisions whose trade-offs extend beyond the technical. Those non-technical trade-offs can be subtle, and perhaps difficult to identify, yet critical to the business. In this article, I want to highlight as an example my experience with the TransferWise payment system, in which technical decisions ultimately work contrary the core of the product.

2016 European Youth Chess Championship in Prague

30 August 2016

The 2016 European Youth Chess Championship took place in beautiful Prague, capital city of the Czech Republic, about eight kilometers outside the city at the historic Top Hotel. Lance and Andrea participated as part of the 30+ kids playing for the Spanish national team.

1Password for Teams and Families incompatible with VPNs

10 August 2016

One of the services for which I’ve truly been happy to pay is 1Password for Families, which allows my wife and I to centrally manage information vaults that are shared among ourselves, and among our kids, across all our Mac and iOS devices.

How to manage a Tomato router via the CLI using Keyboard Maestro

19 July 2016

As I wrote about a few weeks ago, I have my home network connected to the internet through a VPN router, running the Tomato firmware. Although the setup works great, I did run into two issues which I needed to detect and resolve programmatically, using Keyboard Maestro (KM):

Lance is the 2016 Spanish National U14 Chess Champion

18 July 2016

Between July 11 and July 16, the 2016 U14 Spanish National Chess Championship was held at the beautiful Best Western hotel in Salobreña, Spain.

My awful experience installing Windows 10 in VMWare Fusion 8

18 July 2016

In reviewing Lances performance at the Spanish national championship this past weekend, the GM trainer from Andalucia strongly encouraged us to buy ChessBase as a tool to keep up with the latest in opening theory. Since Lance already runs Windows 7 in VMWare Fusionin order to run PlayChess and TeamSpeakI didnt expect there to be any issues installing ChessBase (which is only available for Windows.)

SendGrid made things right

14 July 2016

Update Readers will note that I’ve changed the title and URL of this article, and that’s because shortly after posting it, representatives of SendGrid reached out, apologizing for the situation, explaining that my situation isn’t what they intend, and offering to make it right.

How to switch wifi networks with Keyboard Maestro

04 July 2016

In a recent blog post I explained how I secure my home network with a VPN. In that article, I also explained how I enabled external access to my home network, using the Slink software running on a Mac mini server, whose primary network interface is wifi connected to my ISP router, and second network interface is ethernet connected to my home gigabit switch.