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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 to the right). It’s based on a quote by G. K. Chesterton, a philosopher from the early 20th century, who said “Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.” Honestly, I like the updated version better. Finding the quote finally put words to a driving force…
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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 we get our requirements and designs done). Hopefully something in these notes are helpful, and if you want to see the code, you can find it on Github. Cheers!
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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 build the tools to make my job easier, and maybe help someone else along the way. At the same time, I figured I could teach some of the process behind designing and building a customer-facing product. The steps we’re going to go through in this…
