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  • Worth Doing Poorly; How I Failed To Run An Event (And What I Learned)

    30 min reading time; ~6300 words Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly… because doing it poorly is better than not doing it. — redheadhatchet This quote is one I read on Tumblr a few years ago, immediately printed out, and taped to my wall (imperfectly of course, as you can see from the image […]

  • An App From Scratch: Part 4 – System Design

    10 minute reading time; ~1840 words Greetings! By the time we got to the end of our last post, we had: Today, we’re going to transition into technical work and start developing our system design. This work will lay the foundation for understanding how everything fits together and translates into an actual app. If you […]

  • An App From Scratch: Part 3 – Workflows

    8 minute reading time; ~1460 words Hello there! Today’s post is taking our requirements and starting to talk about workflows. If you haven’t read the previous posts, I’d suggest you start at An App From Scratch: Part 1 – What To Build. You can also find all the related documents and code here: Building Tailgunner. […]

  • An App From Scratch: Part 2 – Wireframing Requirements

    7 minute reading time; ~1325 words Welcome back! Today, we’re going to talk about wireframing from our requirements and stories, and exploring how talking through a wireframe helps us refine our specifications. Between the last post and this one, I’ve taken the requirements and user stories that we wrote about, and cleaned them up into […]

  • Initial Development Setup – Building Tailgunner

    2 minute reading time; ~300 words For the last few days, in between holiday prep, I’ve been tinkering with the technical setup work for this project. From my experiences, here are a few notes. Software Development Environment With that, I have a working install and setup, so now I can start writing some code (once […]

  • An App From Scratch: Part 1 – What To Build

    10 minute reading time; ~1700 words Hello and welcome to my series on designing an app! After spending a few months working on a business plan, I’ve gotten to a point where I have a stack of text files full of data, and they’re getting to be a challenge to manage. Now, it’s time to […]