Programmatically Change S3 Storage Class To Glacier

The glacier storage class within Amazon S3 is a great way to reduce costs for files you don’t think you will ever need again, but want to have stick around just in case. Unfortunately the AWS SDK doesn’t provide a way to transition an object to the Glacier storage class; you can only transition to Infrequent Access and no further. Here is my quick hack to enable that ability: Create a special folder in your S3 bucket named ‘archive’ (or whatever you like)....

March 8, 2018 · 1 min · 195 words · Matt

Why I Refuse To Negotiate On Equity

Equity makes me complicit. Money is what really matters they say. Sprint for five to ten years and you’ll make it. That bank account will be big enough so that you can finally stop being unhappy, and transition to the nirvana state of happiness. Negotiating on an equity package is subtle self propaganda. You are signaling that you buy into the idea of working like crazy right now for a pay off later into the future....

March 28, 2017 · 2 min · 370 words · Matt

Welcome to the Sanity Club

I had a miniature crisis in January with my new SaaS product for wrestling teams. I was working on weekends and generally making myself miserable, due to an arbitrary deadline I had set for myself. The thing about that arbitrary deadline? No one cared. I told the team I’m working with that I would be pushing back the launch until after the season, and the coach just said “Sounds good to me!...

February 9, 2017 · 1 min · 105 words · Matt

2016 Year In Review

I did a year in review for 2015, and want to continue the trend by looking back on 2016. Despite the political changes that I’m not thrilled with, 2016 was a great year for me personally. Without further ado, here is my year in review, with far too many bullet points. Things I Enjoyed in 2016 Career I changed jobs in April. It was hard to do, but ultimately the right call....

January 19, 2017 · 4 min · 807 words · Matt

You've Got A Product, Not A Company

There was a brief period of time during my senior year of college when I got the idea into my head that I should take a year off and pursue a startup. I had a prototype of mobile support software running (think Wufoo for apps), so I scheduled a meeting with a local angel investor. I’m paraphrasing, but his words went something like this: First of all, don’t quit school....

May 15, 2016 · 6 min · 1086 words · Matt