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Naming things needn’t be hard

A really handy site by Paul Robert Lloyd that provides a variety of tactics and considerations to help when naming something. He also shared the back story on how the site came about.

The Feature Flag Relay Race

We recently finished up a moderately-sized improvement to Flipper that likely would never have seen the light of day if we couldn’t have easily thrown it behind a feature flag. Being able to test drive it in production and work on iteratively helped ensure it kept moving along even though it was on the back burner in terms of priorities.

Stability & Speed

With software development, there’s a spectrum out there with stability on one end and speed on the other. You can have an ultra-stable system that progresses incredibly slowly, or you can iterate blindingly fast on a system that’s a mess. Skip…

Thoughts on Business Models

After the recent presentation, I was surprised how many questions I heard about our choice of business model or application. There also seems to be no shortage of people debating between native mobile and web applications. For me, there are a variety…

Independent Software Development

It was a little over a year ago that I set out to try and turn a few mockups into a full-fledged revenue-generating piece of software. For the most part, it’s been a pretty smooth ride, but there have definitely been some lessons learned. In January of…