Four rounds of review on my own work, and what each caught
Development covered 4 Sep 2026 to 6 Sep 2026 (commit dates). Working alone means nobody hands your change back. Review is not something that happens…
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Ten hours unattended: what a long job needs to survive alone
Development covered 5 Aug 2026 to 7 Aug 2026 (commit dates). A lot of the work on this project runs overnight with nobody watching. The job plays th…
If someone might want it different, it should not be a literal
Development covered 2 Aug 2026 to 6 Aug 2026 (commit dates). The rule this project has settled on is one question. Could somebody reasonably want th…
Building NICHLYST: Explosions, Medication, and Rewriting 15 Days as a Novel You Can Fail
On Saturday evening, August 29th, I was lying on my sofa after eating way too much watermelon. I was taking a short break from writing the narrative…
Building NICHLYST: How to Code a Survival Engine When You Are Failing to Survive
Building NICHLYST: How to Code a Survival Engine When You Are Failing to Survive I track everything. It is an occupational habit of a systems archit…
What 166K Clicks Taught Me About Using AI for SEO
Over three months, my static website generated 166K Google clicks from 1.39M impressions , with an 11.9% CTR and 7.5 average position . The graph al…
5 mistakes I made building my first Android app (and how I fixed them)
I'm not a developer. I build Android apps on evenings and weekends using AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot and Claude). My latest app, ScorePop,…
Codogotchi just liberated your AI-agent status indicator
If you run more than one AI coding agent session at a time — three Claude Code threads on three tickets, a Codex session doing a refactor while Curs…
Building AR Hide and Seek — Shipping a Solo Indie LiDAR Game to the App Store
The idea came from an extremely serious game of hide and seek with my cousins. We were adults, which made it ridiculous, but also strangely perfect.…
Adding Live Activities to a Pomodoro timer: what the docs don't tell you
A countdown timer is the perfect use case for Live Activities — and also a great way to discover everything the ActivityKit docs gloss over. When I…
How I auto-generate 800+ App Store screenshots across 39 languages and 3 devices
App Store screenshots are the highest-leverage marketing asset an app has — and the most painful to maintain. Now multiply that pain by 39 languages…
I shipped a Pomodoro app in 39 languages as a solo dev — here's how i18n actually went
Most indie apps ship in English, maybe add a handful of "big" languages later, and call it done. I went the other way: Cadento , my SwiftUI Pomodoro…
I built an app where the AI invents its own generators
The premise started as a workplace joke: photograph someone and have an AI generate a fictional corporate manual about them. "Subject encountered in…
I shipped my first iOS app, got rejected twice, and built a tool so it never happens again
The code was never the hard part. The App Store review was. I shipped my first iOS app — a small baby tracker — and got rejected twice. Not for bugs…
I built 3 Chrome extensions from scratch as a solo developer – here's what I learned (code included)
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Game Prototyping: How to Find the Fun Before You Build the Wrong Thing
Most studios do not fail because the idea was bad. They fail because they spent too long on the wrong version of it. Prototyping fixes that. The Fou…
Lessons from building Electron auto-update across 25 releases
If you're shipping an Electron desktop app to end users and you don't have auto-update wired in, you're going to keep getting "this is broken" bug r…
Best Game Economy Design Tools for Modern Game Teams
Game economy design has a tooling problem. Every other design discipline has dedicated software, UI designers use Figma, project managers use Jira,…
I built my daughter a geography app. It took 67 days and zero dependencies.
Two months ago, I started building an iOS app for my daughter. This week, I shipped it. MapSprout is a US geography app for kids — they learn the 50…
What I learned about App Store screenshots after shipping 3 apps
If you've ever shipped an app on the App Store, you know the feeling. You spend months building the product, and then the week before launch you rea…
Dart Concurrency Deep Dive — Isolates, Structured Concurrency, and Async Patterns
Dart's concurrency model is unusual: single-threaded event loop by default, with explicit Isolates for true parallelism. No shared memory, no race c…
Indie Dev SaaS Launch — Pricing Strategy, Stripe Integration, and Freemium-to-Paid Design
Monetization is where most indie SaaS apps die. Not because the product is bad, but because the pricing is wrong, the freemium tier is too generous,…