After developing Android apps for 4 years, I just released my first app for iOS 🎉

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/...

Been working on my esports tracker for several years in my free time, I finally have a plan to make it an actual product.

The story of how I knew I did the right thing leaving the start up I was an employee of.

It was a great place to work when I started, we had a plan and we were are working hard to make it. But pretty soon I realised that things weren't 100%. We kept altering the product and focusing on the wrong things. Our backlog grew faster than it was completed.

Pretty soon a launch planned in April was pushed back over and over again, until we finally released in November, and instead of being first on the market we were last.

We pivoted hard and I didn't believe in the new product so I quit.

The last week on the job I was finishing up some stuff and when our PO (who also was a programmer)was deploying the things I had done to production something went wrong. Now I had just integrated *his* new authorization service and I had a hunch it wasn't deployed. But he sent a message over slack with a bunch of code alterations that was the "problem". Along with some passive aggressive words about how I wasn't professional and didn't take ownership of the product.

I only added an error log that asked if the authorization service was deployed, and 10 minutes later he came up and said good job, no mention of what was fixed between now and then.

I have no regrets leaving that place.

Been integrating with a third party system for the last 2 weeks, we can send them requests fine but when they post the response to us they get a generic error.

After responding very politely to an increasingly aggressive contact at their company for the entire day, where he says it is our system that is badly configured, they figured it out.

Their system only has support for sending data using TLS 1.0 and below....

So turns out he was right our system wasn't configured to work with theirs. We only allow 1.2 and above...

About to accept another job, having some guilt towards leaving my coworkers during a stressful time. Anyone else felt something similar?

Instrumental music

Javas verbosity

"we know java right? We should make minecraft"

Classmate in college

!rant

Am I the only one who appreciates their PM?

Got hired!

Current fix for uploading a file to an android webview, start in debug mode start file chooser, go get coffee, return step through and voila!

now to make it work with tea too..

the moment when you've removed a progressbar in the layout but not reference in the code..

and android studio says "No chamges to deploy"

fml..

started programming in high school, realized during a hardware lab in my computer science class that I wanted to be a developer.

we hade to set up a network of 5 routers, and I was the last to finish because of a typo in one config. spent an hour debugging, the frustration and eventual feeling of success made me love working with computers!

joined the dark side, got a macbook pro... now got linux, windows and mac