My 2024 year in review
From shipping features to tying the knot, see how 2024 sparked personal triumphs, new career moves, and a peek at what’s ahead—join me on the journey!
Writing on software design, company building, and career learnings.
Sharing and distilling knowledge from my recent work, so others can be informed and learn along with me.
One month in: now employed by a tech company during my 9-5
It's been a big change to go back to the employed world, where previously I was working for myself 9-5, 5 days a week. Here's how I look at it all!
I joined Snapchat as an iOS Engineer!
I joined Snapchat as a iOS Software Engineer, working on media delivery infrastructure. After a job search and a solo tech journey, I'm back to a 9-5!
Searching for a Senior+ Software Engineering job in late 2024
I applied to 63 jobs, faced rejections, and landed 13 offers. My intense job search journey revealed surprising insights about the tech market.
Deciding on the future of VuxByte
I quit Meta to chase my startup dreams. 12 months, 2 products, and countless lessons later, I'm job hunting again, see why & how VuxByte will change.
Starting the Breakeven Brothers podcast with my brother Bennett
We launched a podcast: tech & business insights. Learn how we overcame nerves, chose authenticity over personas, and found joy in our new venture.
1 year recap: My solo entrepreneur journey full of ups and downs
A 12 month detailed breakdown as a solo technical founder. How I managed expectations, finances, set goals for myself, & my hard lessons learned!
Why I chose React Native to build my new mobile app in 2024
There comes a time when you need to chose what technology you want to work with when building a cross-platform mobile app. Let me show you what I did!
How to collect, manage, and prioritize user feedback to help build your SaaS
Create a direct connection to your customers so they can help educate you on what's working and what's not: organizing & prioritize feedback easily.
Building a modern, scalable SaaS web app in 2024: services I recommend + costs
Thinking about starting your next production SaaS web app? Here are the top items I recommend from launch to 10k+ users, to keep you in the know!
Why I quit my Software Engineering job at Facebook to start my own business
Quitting my software engineering job at Facebook was not easy, especially in the heat of layoffs era. But it was my dream to try my own gig, so ...
Running a one person software business: a 6 month look back
Building software can't be that hard right? Build something people like and you are guaranteed $$... nope! How it went for 6 past 6 months journey
My 2023 year in review
I quit my job, started my own software company, and proposed! A deep dive into my productivity stats, business metrics, and social media engagement.
Close stacked modals intelligently via ESC hotkey in Vue.js
Intelligently stack Modals in Vue and implement a hotkey close via the Escape key, that will only close the top most Modal + z-index support!
Launching my first ever iOS app in the Apple App Store: Chatty Butler
Follow my iOS app journey for Chatty Butler from day one: development, beta, marketing and app store approval, to post launch thoughts and feelings.
Automatic user logout when response is unauthenticated in Swift
Automatically invalidate a user session in Swift when authentication fails. Listen for a HTTP 401 to clear out the logged in user's state.
Laravel Sanctum mobile app authentication in Swift
Securely login to your iOS app with Laravel Sanctum as the backend. Save your API token in the user's Keychain for secure storage and access later.
Consuming Laravel validation errors in a Swift network client
Handle Laravel validation errors in your Swift APIClient with a dual response decoder, one for errors, one for success. Display errors on your forms easily!
Transformation layer made easy: leveraging `laravel-data`
laravel-data creates a fast, expressive, type safe, validated, and Typescript compatible layer to put in front of your Eloquent models!
Robust application monitoring for Laravel web apps
Enable application monitoring via OhDear.app, to monitor website uptime, CPU load, disk space, Laravel scheduler, DB connection, and much more!
Writing tests for a production Laravel application using Inertia in PestPHP
Understanding how to write effective Laravel tests using PestPHP that help you remain productive and build confidence in shipping new features.
A new and renewed focus and direction for this blog
I started with Medium, but I'm now using self-hosted Statamic. I am planning to write quality, in-depth technical content from here on out.
Writing my first Apple Watch app in SwiftUI: Covid Aware
SwiftUI on watchOS is a new powerful technology. See how I painstakingly worked through various SwiftUI issues and data flows, to make my own app!
SwiftUI: Background behind Apple’s next big play
Why writing UIs is hard and how cross platform technologies will bring on a whole new set of interested, curious developers to deliver fantastic apps.
2 years out of college as a Software Engineer
2 years down as a professional software engineer, but so many more to go... here are my learnings so far from working at PayPal and Linkedin.
I joined LinkedIn!
PayPal was a fantastic place for me to start my career, but I'm excited to announce I joined LinkedIn as an iOS software engineer. Onward & upward.
Communication lessons learned as a new hire
Communication is an underrated skill as a software dev. Learning how often to communicate to your team, manager, and product partners is important.
Learning Ruby for the first time because of fastlane
Fastlane is a super powerful toolkit for managing and deploying iOS apps. Ruby was not my forte, but it's not too bad once you get a hang of it.
Swift Summit 2017 in San Francisco ☀️ 📱
Server-side Swift, functional Swift, type systems, and so much more, covered by fantastic, enthusiastic speakers at Swift Summit.
Upgrading my development tools, workflow, and knowledge
I pride myself in continuously learning the latest and greatest tools, as it helps you move fast and build great products.
The future of augmented reality experiences with ARKit
Augmented reality (AR) will soon be rolled out worldwide to a user base with no real expectations or past experiences.
Why web programming is a great ecosystem for new tech entrepreneurs
The web was created to be an open playing field for all. Entrepreneurs will heavily benefit by targeting web first, over mobile applications.
Applying and interviewing for jobs
After months of job searching, I finally landed a software engineering job at a great company and I would like to share my experience.
Learning to program
Want to learn how to code? Dive in, get your feet wet, and build up your side project over time. Take it slow, but make sure you learn the right way.
End of an era
This week I sold my prized creation of six years, iUnfollow.com. iUnfollow helps users on Twitter unfollow quickly and efficiently.