I made a small app for my friends and I to track our weekly board games. We wanted to track how often we play each game, and see stats per game and per player. Check it out: apps.apple.com/ca/app/podiu...

You can now add custom cover images to your books in Nightstand. (With bonus appearance from the puppy)

Still accepting senior and mid level applicants!

Major Nightstand update is out: - Yearly stats widget - Monthly summaries - Suggested searches based on history - Export shelves and insights to device or social media

I will continue to literature-post until all my followers are gone

I’ve had Middlemarch on my reading list for years. I was expecting it to be excellent (which it is, obviously) but I wasn’t expecting it to be this funny!

Still mostly down on the various “AI-powered” products we’ve seen so far, but it is now possible to build software so good that it surprises the builder. And that at least is exciting.

Adding some suggested searches based on reading history. These are incredibly accurate for me!

You can also show star ratings.

Export your monthly summary, choosing from one of many lovely custom backgrounds. Coming in the next Nightstand update.

What’s the point of making widgets if you don’t end up with a whole screen like this

Monthly summaries, coming soon to Nightstand.

Wanted to work on something fun after a lot of long hard work on onboarding, so widgets it is!

Huge wins at the vintage book sale

I will never start anything venture backed for many reasons but mostly because regularly speaking to VC investor types sounds like hell

If your cover letter includes the phrase “give answer as human” you’re probably not getting that interview

Huge update to Nightstand just went out. Now with support for importing from Goodreads: apps.apple.com/ca/app/night...

Nabokov nailing it as always.

We’re hiring at the NHL! Come work with me, I promise it’s good. Feel free to DM. Senior and mid-level positions open (link is for mid level) www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

And finally, we have proper onboarding. And probably our most requested feature, important from Goodreads!

Getting back into taking notes while reading has been huge for actually remembering what happened. Most of these are passages I like

Testing some new premium banner styles. The next nightstand update is a massive visual improvement

The rise of Canadians on TikTok will be swift and brutal

The first book was strange and melancholy, the second is lovely and knocking my socks off. Hope the wait isn’t long for the next!

2025 off to a strong start

Nightstand is in this months issue of Macformat magazine! Honestly didn’t think it was still a thing for apps to appear in print 🤷‍♂️

Reading a new post on nshipster is bizarrely nostalgic. I was still in school last time it was active

Seeing some real daily growth now. have to brainstorm ways to sustain past the holiday period

Thinking about blogging book reviews. I miss tumblr

Turns out New Year’s resolutions are huge for book tracking apps

A new social media app where screenshots from other apps are banned

Crossed $400 raised for the children’s book bank through sales of nightstand today ❤️

The people yearn for blogspot

There’s a massive performance difference between predictive code completion on my personal m1 and work m3 max. Night and day

I’m back in on long novels in 2024. Reversing brain rot 900 pages at a time

Do we think it’s a good thing mentally that Johnny cash’s hurt is my number one song this month

Making big moves in 2025

Watching whiplash and wanting to be miles teller is very funny

lot of discourse lately revolving around schools and classrooms, but I learned about the odyssey because my parents created an environment where I could get my hands on anything that interested me. Open the schools, sure, but create learning environments in the community as well

Merry Christmas! It’s the last week that I’ll be donating all proceeds from Nightstand to the Children’s Book Bank. All I want for Christmas is a rating, if you have the time ❤️ apps.apple.com/ca/app/night...

Reconnecting with nature by turning off autocomplete in Xcode

Getting more into international/translated literature this year, so I started following some related accounts, forgetting the first rule of the internet: other people’s opinions can ruin anything

*reading book that everyone on earth told me is amazing* wow this book is amazing, why did nobody tell me

I've never once used the date and time formatting apis correctly on the first try

The art of choosing which window should be open when taking a picture of yourself working in public

I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb company culture. This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out. charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...

Getting into the Christmas spirit by thinking about how large-scale projects that don’t have the potential to make one or two people rich simply can’t happen

Quarterly day job update: We gave scorecards a nice UI refresh, and laid a bunch of groundwork for the upcoming 4 nations tournament. Some good stuff in there

Gotta get over myself and get comfortable making TikTok’s where I talk into the camera