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Software engineering book recommendations The following is a list of software engineering books I’ve read that I felt had a strong and lasting positive impact on my career. It’s not a list of everything I enjoyed (that would be impossible to list down), but rather a special list of resources that taught/helped me so much […]
#287: Pillar II: Monetization February 29th, 2024 · 29 minutes In the second of a three-part series, we look at the second pillar of a successful app: choosing a monetization model that fits the app’s target market. This episode of Under the Radar is sponsored by: Factor: Healthy, fully-prepared food delivered to your door. Stream […]
#286: First Hire February 14th, 2024 · 29 minutes Thoughts and motivations behind David’s hiring of an employee and what it means to be an indie developer. This episode of Under the Radar is sponsored by: Sentry: Mobile crash reporting and app monitoring. Get 6 months of the Team plan free with code radar. Stream […]
A version of this article previously appeared in Fortune. If you haven’t been paying attention Apple has started shipping its Apple Vision Pro, its take on a headset that combines Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). The product is an amazing technical tour de force. But the product/market fit of this first iteration is […]
#285: Recreational Computing January 18th, 2024 · 29 minutes Final considerations for the imminent Apple Vision Pro launch, and our expectations for visionOS apps. This episode of Under the Radar is sponsored by: Factor: Healthy, fully-prepared food delivered to your door. Stream this episode Source link
(I’m stealing the title of this post from the closing sentence of this one by Yilei Yang.) I don’t have anything to say about Apple’s new guidelines for external purchase links on the App Store that smarter people than me aren’t already saying. It’s exactly what we all knew Apple would do. What I do […]
#284: Pillar I: Acquisition January 4th, 2024 · 29 minutes In the first of a three-part series, we look at the first pillar of a successful app: customer acquisition, including paid advertising, word-of-mouth marketing, and editorial promotion. This episode of Under the Radar is sponsored by: Sentry: Mobile crash reporting and app monitoring. Get 6 […]
Have you ever seen “preachings” like these in the wild west of Twitter, Medium, and LinkedIn? “If you’re not using X in 2023 you’re an idiot!” “XYZ architecture is the only way to go!” “Doing X in Swift? Stop immediately!” Humans’ obsession with dividing things into groups is not unknown to psychology. The ability to […]
ChatGPT has become an important part of my daily software engineering work, so I thought it would be interesting to share what exactly I’ve been using it for in case you’re wondering how to use it to improve your productivity. Use-case 1: I don’t know what I’m looking for I find that Google tends to […]
#283: Fifty Roles December 9th, 2023 · 29 minutes The many roles we need to juggle as independent developers, and considering which roles we can take off our plates. This episode of Under the Radar is sponsored by: Indeed: Join more than 3.5 million businesses worldwide using Indeed to hire great talent fast. Stream this […]