I am a little more than six months into a year long challenge to deliver something new each month. Forcing myself to make something new every month is proving to be pretty challenging, but also fun. I went into this experiment with the expectation that it would force me to do a couple of things.First, it would force me to dedicate the time needed to create. I have a difficult time sitting down & focusing on my work. I am easily distracted & generally impatient. Having a public commitment is one of the most effective ways for me to…
When you start building a side project, it is hard to resist daydreaming of one day gaining millions of users and, as a result, earning millions of dollars. Unfortunately, most developers don't know where to begin when thinking about charging for their app & some are even deterred by the idea of running a business or doing sales. I fell into both of these categories when I started experimenting with building side projects. I am writing this series for other developers (and Paige) who, like myself, are not interested in building the hottest start up or running a business. The…
I love starting things. Right now I have 13 unpublished drafts for blog articles on various topics. I am the proud owner of thirty-nine domains. Six of them are in use.Ideas are great. I've got hundreds of them. Working products are better.Starting a new blog, app, or website is easy. Sitting down and doing the work & actually finishing something is hard. Why? The doubt. The doubt in ourselves, or our abilities, or what you are working on.If it sucks everyone will think I suck.Most people don't actually says that to themselves but, we might as…
Hi. My name is Matt & I am a constant over explainer.…
Anyone can write code a computer can understand. It takes an expert to write code a human can understand. In this post we are going to look at an example of how to add clarity to our code by thinking about our logic as a set of questions & answers.…
We constantly refactoring & improving code bases but, sometimes we can be lukewarm about what we are doing. Enter the private method: Codebase Ruiner.…
It's easy to do things in the name of best practices but, how often do we sit down and ask ourselves if that is the right thing to do in our current situation?…