About me on jdamcd.blog

I’ve previously written about using AI coding tools to build various side projects.

Arrivals is my Kotlin Multiplatform project for real-time public transit info.

Google Trends suggests we’ve reached peak vibes.

Arrivals is an open source project for real-time public transit info.

I don’t obsess over day-to-day stock movements, but I do like to know what’s happening in the world when there’s market volatility.

I created a macOS status bar app to display public transit arrival times.

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs models human motivation as a pyramid.

Some teams consider their roadmaps to be immutable and unchallengeable.

Onboarding engineering managers is nothing like onboarding software engineers.

I commute to an office in central London a couple of times a week.

“Don’t Repeat Yourself” is perhaps the original adage in software development.

I wrote the original version of this post in 2020, just after Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile’s alpha release.

Mobile apps under constant development are usually released on a fixed schedule.

Continuous integration is widely adopted in backend and web development.

I started building a sudoku game for Android in 2012, and it continued as an intermittent side project over 8 years.

Chicago The first 30K of my 2019 Chicago marathon was a breeze.