Introducing Heypenny
January 5, 2025 | 4-minute read
I’m excited to share Heypenny with you all!
The human cost of creating software
May 1, 2023 | 12-minute read
Burnout is a real problem in the software industry. A survey from Blind found that almost 60% of respondents had experienced burnout. A Harvard Business School study found that workplace stress costs employees between $125 and $190 billion per year, 5-8% of national spending on healthcare. I myself burnt out a year ago, and took months off to recover.
Testing patterns: Prefer fakes over mocks
November 28, 2022 | 11-minute read
Testing code is hard. In the software engineering circles I frequent (mostly the android community), I hear a good amount of conversation around best practices for testing. But most of these conversations are just bikeshedding about which libraries and tools to use — I rarely hear people focus on the most important questions about tests: are your tests valuable? Are they worth the effort you put into them?
How to share spacing and sizing values in a Kotlin Multiplatform app
August 7, 2022 | 14-minute read
Companies and developers have long tried to write cross-platform mobile apps with very little platform-specific code. Many have since reconsidered due to laggy apps and complex development and maintenance.