devgoth
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Comment · 4 months ago
I am about to ship Campaign Codex (https://campaigncodex.app/)!
It is currently in review with Apple and will be coming to the iPad and iPhone. This is an iPad-first dungeons & dragons app focused on empowering dungeon master's as they manage their campaign. inspired by my first DM in my first campaign with friends.
its been fun to hack on :)
TestFlight here for anyone curious! https://testflight.apple.com/join/kM4udJSZ
Comment · 5 months ago
love seeing scala being used. very unique! would be curious why scala vs other languages out there
Comment · 5 months ago
still chugging on Whenish https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whenish/id6745035749!
outside of that I started to fiddle around with a cross section of observability and analytics with SDKs...building a little tool to give SDK publishers better insights.
Comment · 6 months ago
still chugging away at Whenish. update coming soon with GCal integration: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whenish/id6745035749
started to explore a iPad-focused Dungeons & Dragons DM app. i called it Campaign Codex. https://campaigncodex.app/
been doing a lot of agent assisted iOS dev...it has been...fun!!
Comment · 8 months ago
I think its fine to switch stacks after being in one for two decades. It seems they got into React in a sweet spot where perhaps breaking changes have slowed down...perspective is everything! I bet they would have said something else if they got into React several years ago ;)
Comment · 9 months ago
I am working on a query cost analyzer that looks at query performance and does maths against your infrastructure cost to understand what is your dollar cost per query. The idea is that teams (when tables are tagged appropriately) will be notified with their most costly queries and hopefully makes that actionable for teams to clean up some queries.
I am unsure if there is a need for a tool like this in the market but I am becoming more and more curious around databases so this felt like a lower barrier for my product-minded engineer skills to get into.
Comment · 9 months ago
SWE is a demanding job in general so just be prepared to actually "work". as others have said look at large companies where tech is not the selling point. insurance, banks, aviation, large fortune 500 companies.
i've noticed that it is sometimes less about the type of company and more about the immediate manager and their mindset. a competent manager can set expectations with external stakeholders while not overloading their engineers. a good middle manager who can play politics with multiple stakeholders and becomes "liked" really leads to a chill job if they have the correct expectations of their career as well.
Comment · 10 months ago
merry christmas everyone! HN has been the first site i open up every morning with a cup of tea for the past 10 years or so. Cheers to a great community of builders & thinkers.
Comment · 10 months ago
while not exactly $500/month, my side project Whenish (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whenish/id6745035749) makes me some beer money.
I made Whenish cause i was frustrated with apps taking you outside of group chats to schedule events and find out dates when people are available. Whenish is an iMessage extension app and it works pretty nicely so far.
recently got my first user feedback email which was really exciting!
hope to figure out how marketing works to get some more users and hopefully double downloads + sales next year.
Comment · 10 months ago
im build an offline-first iPad-focused Dungeons & Dragons campaign app called Campaign Codex. i got inspired by watching Critical Role and saw a bunch of them using iPads during their sessions.
thought it would be cool to build something like this. im still building but feel free to download it via testflight and give some feedback: https://testflight.apple.com/join/kM4udJSZ
Comment · 11 months ago
I was working on a iPad-focused Dungeons & Dragons app focused on the Dungeon Master called Campaign Codex but I got a little bored with building CRUD apps.
Decided to pivot and start learning about databases and their internals more. Currently pulling down Clickhouse and reading some code along with the reading the book Database Internals by Alex Petrov.
So I'm technically not "working on" an app...I am working on myself to branch out and attempt to specialize a bit more as I progress in my career.
Any advice/papers/books to read is very welcomed!
Comment · 1 year ago
i think this is because of Clojure's mentality on backwards compatibility and not the JVM specifically. please someone correct me if im wrong tho!
Comment · 1 year ago
Location: Chicago, IL
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: iOS, Swift, SwiftUI, Java, Spring Boot, Elixir, Technical Leadership
Résumé/CV: https://www.commongroundtech.com/
Email: [email protected]
hey all! i am looking for freelancing work in the Apple ecosystem space (Mac/iOS). I am looking to take on 5-8 hours a week.
available for: ios development, interesting web dev projects
hi im tyler! i have indie experience building Whenish, a productivity scheduling app for Messages (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whenish/id6745035749). i have scaled starts ups from seed to series c rounds. i am looking to consult on a weekly basis primarily building in the ios space but am open to start ups who need technical guidance and need a fractional cto like role.
https://www.commongroundtech.com/
how can i help? tyler[at]commongroundtech[dot]com