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Personal Medium blog — the listed tagline is just a sitemap artifact - ericntd.medium.com

· 1 week ago

Nothing to buy: this is Eric N's personal Medium blog (Canadian banking comparisons, Android engineering notes) by a Toronto software engineer. Read it free if those topics match your questions; do not treat it as a product or vendor.

Confidence

Medium. Based on ~25 public sources — the blog itself, forum posts, GitHub, and social profiles. None are independent product reviews; all confirm this is a personal blog, not a product.

Ratings

  • Value for moneyFree blog; nothing to value-test
  • Ease of useProse on Medium, not scoreable
  • Feature depthNo features; it's articles
  • Support qualityNo support offering exists
  • Security postureNo findings in reviewed sources

Pricing

Not disclosed

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed
Free tierYes

Best for

  • Canadians comparing online banks
  • Android devs on code health
  • Casual personal finance readers

Not for

  • Anyone shopping for actual software
  • Teams needing vendor support or SLAs
  • Buyers comparing tools on price and features
  • Procurement or security review processes

Gotchas - check before you buy

low

Banking comparisons can go stale; verify current rates and fees with the banks directly

low

Advice is anecdotal, drawn from one person's experience, not verified testing

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Free, readable comparison of Canadian online banks for newcomers
  • Practical Android write-ups, e.g. finding unused classes in codebases
  • Author is a working software engineer, not a marketer
  • Finance commentary grounded in personal app use, e.g. Emma/Plaid

Cons

  • Not software: no features, pricing, or support to evaluate
  • 'Security' page is empty footer links, no stated posture
  • Single author's opinions; no independent reviews found
  • Topics scattered: football, anime, hotels, banking, Android

Sources & method

- 8 sources - No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

official x4review x3security x1

Key stats

  • Not rated

    Rating

  • Not disclosed

    Starting price

  • 8

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money. Free blog; nothing to value-test
  • Ease of use. Prose on Medium, not scoreable
  • Feature depth. No features; it's articles
  • Support quality. No support offering exists
  • Security posture. No findings in reviewed sources
  • $0 Cost to read Public Medium posts
  • Eric N Author Software engineer, Toronto, Canada
  • 0 Independent reviews found Sources show only the author's own activity

Pricing

Free tier: Yes

Security

No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

What users say

No independent reviews of the blog itself; sources show the author's own comments across Reddit, forums, GitHub, and travel sites.

Full analysis

Based on ~25 public sources — the blog itself, forum posts, GitHub, and social profiles. None are independent product reviews; all confirm this is a personal blog, not a product.

One engineer's free Medium blog, not software: read the Canada bank comparisons, skip any 'buy' decision.

Methodology

Based on ~25 public sources — the blog itself, forum posts, GitHub, and social profiles. None are independent product reviews; all confirm this is a personal blog, not a product.

Read how a report is made.

Sources

  1. Tangerine vs. Simplii vs. EQ bank for newcomers in Canadaericntd.medium.com
    official
  2. Find unused classes in Android codebaseericntd.medium.com
    official
  3. Product security page (footer links only)ericntd.medium.com
    security
  4. Eric N (@ericntd) on X — 'Coder, walker, biker and driver'x.com
    official
  5. ericntd GitHub — image-loader wrapper projectgithub.com
    official
  6. Immigration forum: author self-describes as software engineeraustraliaforum.com
    review
  7. Stack Exchange profile — Toronto, ON, Canadaunix.stackexchange.com
    review
  8. Reddit r/PersonalFinanceCanada comment on Emma/Plaidreddit.com
    review

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