Nick Fishman

I’m at Cornell University this weekend serving as a mentor for 3 Day Startup. Yesterday I gave a short overview about some useful APIs that can help teams build their prototype faster.
If you’re in Ithaca this weekend, make sure to check out the final presentations on Sunday! RSVP here....

It’s been a while since my last post, but I’m now ready to share a big update. First, the bad news. sonicpanther, the company I co-founded with Arthur Soroken in 2012 and which I served as chief technology officer, is no more. We made the decision to...

The ability to debug web applications is baked into every major browser — just click Inspect Element and you’ll see lots of information. It’s not quite as easy to do this with native apps, especially if you don’t have their source code. I’d like to show...

One of my recent projects involved scraping some web data for offline processing. I started using the excellent request library by Mikeal Rogers, which has a number of nice and convenient improvements over the default Node http library.
As I unleashed my first prototype on the web, the database started growing much faster than I had planned. I started by storing raw and uncompressed response data, so an immediate optimization was to use the Accept-Encoding HTTP request header to fetch...