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…
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…
Just over a week ago I launched Retrospective Timelines in the App Store. In fact, “launched” may be too strong of a word. I released the app on Sunday Dec 1, 2019 with little fanfare and even less of an idea of what I was doing. Over the months leading up to version 1.0 I…
Updated with thoughts from March 2024 Joseph
