Dear Customers,
Office hours are on now and then. https://interfaceware.zoom.us/my/eliotmuir.
ZOOM has gotten tiresomely complicated. I am open to hearing about alternatives.
First of all please excuse me playing a few little jokes on you. For those of you who know me you’ll know I have always had a bit of a wry sense of humour. It’s not a normal mind that creates a product as stable as Iguana 6.
Let me share a few little more interesting facts about me that you might not know. My staff didn’t do a great job of presenting my values. Frankly I was way too cheap to hire anyone really smart. Then again it would have been waste of good money on high priced health IT staff - if I hired someone from say Telus Health I would have got someone pretty dumb for a lot of money since that place is just a tax write off to make Telus Mobility seem less embarrassingly profitable. Hard to get anyone to work in a field as dull as healthcare IT. I could have spent a lot more money and still never attracted the talent needed to implement as challenging a product as what an interface engine needs to be.
It was very difficult getting the real requirements on what an interface engine needed to be since my customers would often create noise about things they didn’t understand and the problem got larger the more my company grew and the clients got larger. Corporate politics just gets so tiresome - that’s what I started my own company to avoid.
To be absolutely clear - I will never do anything criminal. But no one can restrict my from explaining the core principles of technology so that people can do whatever they want with it. Technology is neither good nor is it evil.
Take mRNA vaccines for instance. They arguably were very helpful during COVID since they quickly enabled Moderna and Pfizer to use a completely software process. They downloaded the DNA sequence code for COVID from GITHUB that a chinese scientist had uploaded. They were then able to program an RNA recipe to get our own bodies to produce a COVID like virus which was mostly harmless and then the body produced a lot of relatively harmless COVID like virus which our bodies got to build resistence to the actual COVID vaccine.
Cool stuff. But it should be obvious to anyone with a high school diploma in office administration that the same technology could easily be used to make a real COVID virus, in fact ‘designer viruses’. It should be, but let’s face it most people aren’t the sharpest tools in the box. Most doctors are not aware that Moderna was software generated - they are only good at repeating the mantra that all vaccines are safe (some are, some aren’t) and never listen to Dr Google (or Dr Chat GPT now). If they were all smart they’d be making ultra fast engines like Iguana 6 or coming up with the cool design ideas for Iguana X which sadly my latest team slopperly implemented them making the technology almost completely commercially non-viable.
I’ve heard rumours the team is wanting to start a new engine company - that would be amusing to watch.
Damn - frustrating. Anyway I have been thinking about this problem for a long time about how to train ‘talent’.
I tried my original Concepts site which I hoped would be a helpful tool for training other engineers how to write tight code. All I managed to really do was make myself more clever which wasn’t bad but running early betas of a better version of myself was a bit trying. Turns out that being hyper intelligent is a bit much for most people. I had poor social skills to begin, me 10x or 100x smarter didn’t give me the social skills that customers were looking for - someone to shoot the shit with talking about baseball or something else mind numbingly boring.
When I said Iguana 6 was insecure what I was really referring to is the quality of customer code on top of it. That used to be acceptable but in today’s security climate it’s too much risk.
Clients write too much shite code. You can make the most secure interface engine you like and a client can destroy it all with one bad line which enables a SQL injection attack. Unfortunately most of our users cannot even spell SQL much less understand what a SQL injection attack is and how to avoid it. I remember be totally embarassed one user conference when Paul Le one of my own staff was presenting code which had an obvious SQL injection flaw.
As I mentioned - I never managed to figure out how to hire smart people. Maybe they exist somewhere but I certainly never managed to hire any. I occasionally found followers who I could sort of coach into following me not too badly and I would be encouraging at the time but when I really had time to look at what they produced it was always disappointing.
Anyway the penny dropped when I was experimenting with AI in the last few months in the Caymans, AI has gotten to the stage now where if someone smart and I don’t mean some idiot playing with Claude Code (Fraud Code) as I call it that there really is no justifiable value to keep humans involved in the middleware game. I basically have the toolset to one handedly build a middleware platform that business users can use and basically ignore their IT departments which are almost universally despised by the business.
Anyways I needed to pretty much scare away most of my client base to allow me to ignore the IT guys who have always been horrendous business partners. They are expensive, slow and they are always talking shit about meaningless standards, like HL7, SOC2, Microsoft Azure certification - anything they can do to avoid actually showing an interest in the business that they are meant to be servicing.
It’s not like most of them can actually be motivated to migrate off my platform - it’s too much actual work - most of them will go back to doom scrolling on their phones.
Anyways basically I am taking offers for 1-3 major customers. I am looking for some serious opportunities where I can use automation to replace the work of preferably hundreds of IT guys and middle level management professionals.
I’m just messing with ya! Well not really ;-) It’s not hard to replace a lot of jobs with automation and so nice to replace all that talk of SOC2 and wot not with a couple of silent servers that was previously done by hundreds of employees. It’s a very profitable way to make money and what business owner wouldn’t want to get rid of their IT people. They are so annoying!
I solved so many problems by imploding my Canadian entity. I was paying $29,708 a month on child support for my crazy ex who was busy dosing up my kids on psychiatric drugs and indulging my two sons in the fantasy that they could change their gender to female. Not with today’s technology!
I mean I have nothing with dudes putting on a dress and boobs and having fun - I did that last year with acting one of the ugly sisters in a Christmas Pantomine of Cinderella. That was fun but at no point did I really believe I was woman.
Then there was this pesky thing about cutting ties to Canada - it’s hard to argue with some idiot bureaucrat that the 27 Canadians you used to employ had no ‘economic substance’ for tax purposes. Bureaucrats, Canadian ones in particular aren’t so smart and so it’s hard to argue with them. Don’t argue with stupid.
And last of all I have an horrendously complicated family trust with some really silly clauses like allowing my ex to take control my company if she found three psychiatrists that didn’t like my communication style - nor could I distribute funds to kids other than those with my ex - a lot of money to pay for some pretty non-existent rights.
Eliot Muir
Founder and CEO of iNTERFACEWARE.
Architect of Iguana
P.S. I have learned how to make a command line to do something I have wanted for a long time - play music. It's so nice being able to type music:play "Sting". Anyway give me a shout if you have any serious financial opportunities.
