Brian Christner

monitoring

How to Monitor Third-Party SaaS applications

The business world is powered by an ever-increasing number of SaaS applications. But who is monitoring the SaaS applications and can you afford a critical SaaS application going offline and impacting your business?

By Brian Christner 21 Jun 2022

NFT

You, Me, and Utility NFT's

NFT have adapted from just pictures on the blockchain to utility. Learn how NFT's are enabling new use cases and bridging online to offline with NFTs.

By Brian Christner 19 Jan 2022

random

2021 in Review

Another Brian Christner year in review highlighting what went well, improvements, and wish list for 2022. Let's get started with 2022.

By Brian Christner 31 Dec 2021

books

Book Review - The Practice: Shipping Creative Work

A complete review of the new Seth Godin book The Practice Shipping Creative Work. A great book for those looking for inspiration or need a recharge to get going.

By Brian Christner 24 Nov 2020

books

Book Review - Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story

How storytelling is one of the most important trait to connect and persuade people. Peter Guber gives us the basics of story telling with amazing examples from A listers to World Leaders.

By Brian Christner 19 Nov 2020

docker

Why I created online courses

How I transitioned from presenting courses and workshops to converting to online courses.

By Brian Christner 11 Nov 2020

Security

How to use Docker Security Scan Locally

How the new Docker security tool Docker Scan helps to push left and find bugs before they hit production

By Brian Christner 10 Nov 2020

random

Maintaining Open Source Projects is Hard

Open Source has become incredibly easy to consume but how can we motivate more people and organizations to give back?

By Brian Christner 9 Nov 2020

Life Hacking

Making Reading Books a Habit

Time to make reading a habit, start being more creative, and start shipping creative work.

By Brian Christner 6 Nov 2020

Life Hacking

Third Time on the Front Page of Hacker News

A reflection on how three of my blog articles made it to the front page of Hacker News.

By Brian Christner 5 Nov 2020

DIY

How to Monitor Airplane Traffic with a Raspberry Pi

Ever wonder what airplane is flying overhead? Wait no longer with this easy to build RaspberryPi Groundstation to track overhead flights.

By Brian Christner 4 Nov 2020

Life Hacking

The Why Quality

Sometimes the easiest way to attain information is just by asking Why. Start with Why and unlock insightful information.

By Brian Christner 3 Nov 2020

Bootstrapping

Hacking the McDonalds API

What if I told you McDonalds doesn't have a public API. Better yet, what if someone spent the time going through the McDonalds online order

By Brian Christner 1 Nov 2020

random

Similarities Between Software Development and Skunk Works Projects

Take a peak behind the curtain inside the Skunk Works projects. How these planes were developed have a lot similarities with modern software development.

By Brian Christner 20 Jan 2020

Life Hacking

Looking forward to 2020

2020 is now upon us. It is up to us to start making things happen. Here's my quick recap of 2019 and looking forward to 2020 things to do.

By Brian Christner 13 Jan 2020