Solo Android app developer here. It's 4AM where I'm working. Been working alone on a project for the last 20 days. Looking to get some inspiration and discuss new ideas with other devs.

So hi!
What's up with you? What do you do?

I'm a full stack web developer, who is also a strong advocate for statically typed languages. I don't find a lot like me in my work environment.
Most prefer RoR or Django.

Why is that so? Do you not like JavaScript too?

@saunved strongly prefer TypeScript to JS. It's null safe, checked at compile type, and types are known at compile time, which leads to 100% accurate lists of available methods on all TS objects, where JS is only ever guessing.

Sounds good! I've been meaning to get into web development, but it feels really daunting now. There's a lot more to learn suddenly and the knowledge-scape is very dynamic. What would you suggest I do?

@saunved well if you want a community/tutorials that are nearly or as in depth as RoR or Django, then you'd probably have to use .NET (Core MVC), but personally I'm not a fan of the corporate feel of .NET (although they're trying to move away from that with Core in general).

Otherwise, Javalin is definitely my favorite, in Kotlin.

@Nevoic
First time I'm hearing of Javalin. Just Googled it and it looks like an absolutely dope framework.

Any websites you've made that I can check out, if you don't mind?

@oudalally
Hi! Wow, that was a lot to process! How long have you been in this field?

@saunved honestly I'm not sure. I might still have a heroku deployment up.

@oudalally
That's a lot of experience. I'm just starting out! Well, since you're so **ahem** ancient, I must ask you -
What's the important thing you've learned as a developer over the years?

@Nevoic
Ah, no worries! Thanks for responding, it was getting super claustrophic in my head, working alone for so long. Helps to talk to people who are doing similar things.

@oudalally damn. You've been working 16 years professionally? 16 years ago I was 4. I feel young XP

@oudalally Thanks for the great advice!

@oudalally Holy shit. I push to Git every few hours or so or whenever I finish an important module. Haven't been keeping offline backups but it looks like I should start doing that too!

I'm in !love with Gradle. Mostly C#, but occasional Java (Android) stuff

And music producing!

Welcome! I am a full stack web developer(web mostly) but I used to be a project lead for mobile development (android and ios) and absolutely hate it!! Now a days I focus mostly on web development since it pays the bills and work with a large Java, Oracle DB, php and mysql stack at work and in the past I have worked with ASP.NET MVC(loved every second of it)

Currently focusing on my own time with Machine Learning and Sys programming :)

Being awake at 6:30AM :')
At unholy hours like this, usually electronics engineering and trying to remain as silent as possible to not wake up neighbors while reaping the benefits of a somewhat bearable temperature at night during this dreaded summer. Long live the night owls!!

(seriously though, I'm having wine for testing the breathalyzer project.. no testing whatsoever, much booze.. about as much regrets as there's testing :P)

I am also a solo android developer and started frontend web development with react 2 months ago.

@AleCx04
Hi! Didn't get time to check the app. Why do you hate app development?

@Condor damn! I want a project like this 😂

@saunved that's why I love hardware development so much 😋 as long as you don't solder, weld or do high voltage stuff while drunk, nobody is going to blame you for taking a sip - even more so when you just dick around on your own bench as a hobby. I mean a few components could blow up due to incorrect placement but that's about it.. and even then we have lab bench power supplies to prevent extensive damage 🙂