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I’m excited to announce something new…I’ve started a new podcast called “Worklog”! It’s where I share my journey of building Sofa into a successful indie app business—covering lessons, challenges, and insights along the way. This is basically the stuff I make for YouTube, but in
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As a professional nerd, I have many computers. All of which serve different roles in my life. * The iPhone is my personal computer * The Mac is my work computer * The Apple Watch is my health computer * The Apple TV is my entertainment computer Until recently, I didn’t have a
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I did a little experiment over the past week to post a Reel, TikTok, and YouTube Short every day. I wanted to see if I could manage and keep up with a daily posting schedule. The results? I hated it. It tanked my focus and added a lot more stress
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I just got my CTB26 last week, and since I recently took a weekend trip to Chicago I thought it might be helpful for people to see how I packed things out in my CPL24.
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Notion is creeping into my life more and more, and one helpful little database I made is to track my PTO and the number of days I’ve taken or plan to take. I know the company tracks this, but checking Notion is much faster for me. Here’s the
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In software, consistency and cohesion tend to get lumped together as the same thing. I’ve found this leads to painfully tedious arguments around product and design decisions. Consistency focuses on individual parts of a larger whole. For example, in an app, a primary button may always be blue. This
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Read * Atomic Habits – Systems over goals. That is the main lesson. * How to be Black – Comedy is such a great vehicle for discussing difficult topics, and this book proves it. I think it’s a great starter book for white people who want to educate themselves on racism. Watched * Glengarry
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For the past year or so this site has been running on Gatsby.js. Gatsby is a static site generator built with React. I had built some stuff with it at work and decided to give it a try for my personal blog. The process ended up being too tedious
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Expandable elements are extremely common across desktop and mobile apps. So common in fact that you might be wondering why I’m spending time writing about this. Things that are common are not always well understood. A well-designed expandable element comes down to the placement and rotation of the caret
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You’ve been designing web apps for years, and you’re a total pro at it. Well done! Now you have to design your first native app and you’re not quite sure where to start. Don’t worry. The good thing is most of your web design knowledge is
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This is a list of resources for design systems. Hopefully, it will be as helpful to you as it is to me. This will be updated as I come across more design system goodies. System Examples These are examples of design systems that I reference frequently. Either for their content,
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I’m looking at purchasing a Tom Bihn Synik 22. These are resources I’m collecting to help me decide if I should purchase. I’ll be updating this resource as I come across more info. Written Reviews & Forum Discussions * Synik 22 / 30 Questions & Answers * Review: Tom Bihn