I work four days a week in a “real job” and I spend about a day a week solving problems that interest me with tiny software applications. I’ve been assembling a tool-kit to quickly build against architectural patterns that I find keep coming up in tiny apps. …

My wife and I have been using Flickr as our main photo album and photo storage site since 2007 and we have nearly 12,000 photos up there. Our phones back up to Google Photos, but we also have a Panasonic Lumix mirrorless camera, and Flickr is where we actually curate…

I like to make tiny SaaS apps to solve my own problems, and in the hope that it helps other people with the same problem. Lately that has meant building apps to help with my hobbies, and the latest one of my hobbies to help out is mixology. For this…

This is another one of my “surely it can’t be that hard to…” stories (spoiler alert: yes it is). This time I’m dealing with the world of converting between different systems of measurement used for ingredients in cocktails. I like to make tiny SaaS apps to solve my own problems…

I’ve written about my adventures finding the best toolkits and stacks for solo development of tiny web apps. …

Google acquired AppSheet in early 2020. I remember the announcement, but didn’t think much of it at the time. 18 months later, and it seems to me that low-code/no-code is such a “big thing” that it’s nudging out AI/ML in the tech press hype. In 2017 I co-founded a start-up…

In my first story in a series, I explained that I spend about a day a week solving problems that interest me with tiny software applications. I’ve been assembling a tool-kit to quickly build against architectural patterns that I find keep coming up in tiny apps. In a later story…

I have a meeting coming up where some new members are joining a team I’ve been in for some time. The facilitator has asked us to introduce ourselves, “Pecha Kucha” style, with one-minute-per-slide pictures. It’s a big team, so we only get three slides each. I’m an obsessive logger of…

A month or so ago, I wrote a story explaining the stack and tool-chain I’ve put together for building tiny responsive web apps. The technology I chose solved these problems: I only want to pay for what I use (scale-to-zero) I don’t have a lot of time available for learning…