One Pipe, One User Story: The Case for phoenix_test
Why phoenix_test makes Phoenix feature tests read better and fail more usefully.
Posts tagged “side-projects”
46 posts.
Building LocalCents: A Local-first Expense Tracker with Automerge CRDTs
An educational side project: a local-first expense tracker built with Automerge CRDTs in Elixir, Phoenix, and Tauri, plus how I surface sync conflicts.
Ranked Vote Flick Demo
A short demo video of RankedVote.app (Flick), the Elixir and Phoenix LiveView app I built to help the Elixir Book Club pick books.
Circle Sign-Up Forms and Credit Card Fraud
People used my Circle community sign-up form to validate stolen credit cards, and Circle never responded properly.
Shutting Down ElixirClub
After six months, today I announced ElixirClub's closure.
Side Project Launch Cold Feet
The good news, that project is functionally complete. The bad news, I’m not sure I want to launch it.
A New Project: ElixirClub
ElixirClub is an outcome-oriented community that helps Elixir developers finish their side projects.
The Importance of Side Project Tiny Tickets
Deep work programming sessions are hard to come by. Find tiny ways to move your side project forward during the cracks of life.
Side Project Idea Audit
I keep a running list of project ideas in my notebook, and here is the shortlist I considered for the summer.
Filters Shaping My Next Project Idea
A collection of notes on what my next project should and should not be.
Shutting Down my Side Project Guildflow
I am shutting down Guildflow. After two years in the meetup headspace I cannot see a path to paying myself for the time.
Retro Taxi: September 2021 Update
A progress update on RetroTaxi, my Phoenix LiveView retrospective board, with a video walkthrough of what works so far.
RetroTaxi Project Kickoff
Kicking off RetroTaxi, an open source Phoenix LiveView retrospective board I am building as a teaching example, starting from its pitch document.
Prioritizing Customer Feedback
It is easy to react to every piece of customer feedback, feel busy, and move nothing. How I decide what actually gets built.
Google Ad Numbers Don't Add Up
I tried to run some Google Ads but can't reconcile the numbers. I've been duped!
Video: Bartering With Other Developers on Side Projects (5m)
A short video talking about bartering your time with other developers to help add perspective to each other's side projects.
Challenging My Assumptions Through User Interviews
A short talk about how recent user interviews have challenged some of my assumptions about how Guildflow accounts should work.
Clubhouse is Now Guildflow
My meetup project has a new name. Why Campfire and Clubhouse did not survive the trademark checks, and what Guildflow means.
Video: Accountability via Masterminds (4m)
It can be hard to keep the momentum with a long term side project. I've found accountability help recently through a mastermind group.
Clubhouse Roadmap Tour
I'm using a public Trello board to keep track of my Clubhouse project's roadmap. Check it out. Feedback on the roadmap style and content itself very welcome.
Video: How I Decided to Build Clubhouse (6m)
A six-minute video on how I landed on Clubhouse as my side project, and what made the meetup problem worth solving.
Video: Quick Thoughts on User Testing (5m)
A five-minute video on running cheap, do-it-yourself usability tests, plus the script I used on my own project.
Clubhouse Public Alpha
After more than a year of side project nights, the first public alpha of Clubhouse, my IndieWeb-minded alternative to Meetup, is out.
Club House Hosting Dev Diary 2: A Tour of UI Sketches
Dev diary two for Club House Hosting, touring the early UI sketches and what I plan to tackle this week.
Club House Hosting Dev Diary 1: Some Introductions
The first dev diary video for Club House Hosting, with introductions to me, the project, and the timeline I have in mind.
My New Project: Club House Hosting
Introducing Club House Hosting, a platform for group organizers to run their own site with event RSVPs and member directories.
New Project: Group Leadership Club
Announcing Group Leadership Club, a site of articles and a forum for people who start, run, and sustain technical meetup groups.
Meet OwlDeck, a New Mac Presentation App for Programmers and Markdown Geeks.
The teaser site for OwlDeck is live, a macOS presentation app for programmers who need to show code and would rather write Markdown.
Greetings, from the Ranch
Taking Big Nerd Ranch's Front End Web class this week, plus the wiki side project I plan to build in the evenings.
New Blog: Rested Experience
I started a new blog, Rested Experience, to journal the Mac app I have been building for the past month.
Clash of the Coders: Day 0
Day zero of Clash of the Coders, the annual competition where Big Nerd Ranch shuts down so everyone can build something wizardly.
Rebooting My Professional Side Projects
Two years after putting Clickable Bliss on hiatus for a full time job, I am starting my own professional side projects again.
Encouraging Impactful User Content
TripAdvisor keeps emailing me about how many people my one review reached, and it is a smart way to keep contributors writing.
7 Minute Workout Featured on Apple.com
7 Minute Workout, an app I worked on, turns up in Apple's Strength TV ad. Plus news on the DmgCtrl and Tonic merger.
GoldCards 1.1
GoldCards 1.1 is on the App Store, mostly a data update for the Unleash the Hounds nerf plus a few bug fixes.
Looking for feedback from Twitter users
I am working on an app for Twitter users and want to know if the problem is real. A short survey, if you have a minute.
Side Projects
Back after a hectic stretch at work, with an update on GoldCards, the Hearthstone reference app I started at a CocoaHeads hackday.
MegaManEffect now on GitHub
MegaManEffect, my old Mac app that plays a Mega Man 2 animation on app launch, has moved from GoogleCode to GitHub.
Philly Startup Weekend
I finally made it to Philly Startup Weekend, 54 hours to launch a startup from nothing. Notes from the weekend.
Running Lean: Problem Interviews
The next phase of Running Lean for CB Reader is problem interviews, where you find out whether the problem is even real.
CB Reader Intro Video and Feature Survey
The CB Reader intro video is up, along with a feature survey to help me work out what has to make the first launch.
More Google Reader Thoughts
Google Reader was two things, a web app and an unofficial API, and the second one is why its shutdown hurts so much.
Running Lean: Building Our Lean Canvas
Building a Lean Canvas for CB Reader, using Ash Maurya's Running Lean to turn vague ideas into testable hypotheses.
The End of Google Reader
Google Reader shuts down July 1st and the apps built on it are in trouble. Part of why I started CB Reader.
Announcing a New Project, CB Reader
Announcing CB Reader, a project to centralize your incoming articles and organize them by semantic analysis and social signals.
Book Review: The Lean Startup
A review of Eric Ries's The Lean Startup, read while deciding what project to take on after selling ProfitTrain.