Posts about work, running a small business, and professional development.
Twelve years ago today, I took my first small step into the world of software development. A friend who ran a FileMaker Pro consulting company encouraged me to download the trial and give it a try. With no IT or development background, I felt a bit lost initially. However, I decided to start with something…
It’s been one month since Apple announced the Vision Pro at WWDC. Since then I’ve been thinking about what it means to me and how it can change the way I work.
Have you ever felt the pressure to master a single technology or a specific tech stack? The conventional wisdom for solo software developers tells us to become experts, to specialize. I’ve often felt this pressure and made several attempts to follow this path. However, this year, I’ve come to a realization: I am, at my…
Last night I came across two of my old iOS projects in my app history. Random Arrow was my first attempt at a game in 2016. I used it to learn Swift and a bit about games. It wasn’t a good game. I think I had more fun making it than anyone had while playing…
I’m working on a rebranding project for Radical Application Development. I’ll write more about how and why later. For now, I just wanted to share how quick and easy this process was. Creating the brand I used Adobe Express to create a new logo using a color and font that I liked. Then I used…
Where to find my writing and how to contact me in 2023 and beyond.
One thing that I know about myself is that I do my best work slowly. I’m a thoughtful and meticulous person in everything I do, but especially when it comes to building something important. Over the last six or seven years since I started Radical Application Development, I’ve developed a rather good sense of when…
I learned about the concept of weekly reviews first from a friend and later from reading Getting Things Done by David Allen. I don’t exactly practice the entire system described in GTD, but I did take some of the core concepts and make them my own. For me, the two most important of those concepts…
While working on my goals and my annual theme for 2020, I decided that I’m going to give time tracking another try. When I was working full time as a consultant I used to track all of my time because the companies I worked for mostly billed by the hour. When I started Radical Application…
Updated with thoughts from March 2022 Joe.
In spring of 2018 Dave and I put VR Hermits on hiatus. Dave had some interesting work he wanted to focus on and I needed to spend some time on a few consulting projects. We had planned to resume in the fall but I think somewhere along the line Dave realized that Virtual Reality development…
