Witsi.co was a failure. I was an idiot for thinking I could run that kind of business. Let me back up. Witsi.co was a side project that I spun up several years ago. If you go back in time on this blog, I talked about it quite a bit. It was a web application that
“There’s a fatal error on the front page, I’m rolling back the build!”. No one wants this to happen to them. In my case it was my bug that went out, it’s my software that I wrote with my own two hands that had a fatal “oh shit” error happening tonight. This is not
First I’ll start with the good news: Witsi.co is live for public beta, starting right now. What’s Witsi.co? Well, I’ve talked about it in previous articles. It’s a way to track your credit card spending in order to maximize your rewards. Check out the FAQ, and the rest of the Witsi.co blog for more information. It’s been
I’ve been on a partially unplanned hiatus from this blog (and in fact, all of my writing endeavors) for a while. It’s good to be back. Since I wrote The Wantrepreneur’s Blues, an article where I complained about not having any good ideas to work on, I’ve had an influx of ideas for things I
I used to work at an AutoZone when I was in college. I really liked working on my car (at the time, a Ford Taurus SHO, which I loved), and AutoZone gave me the ability to earn a little extra cash while learning a little more about cars, and by extension, a little more
I have an open source project on GitHub I wrote called ManagEnv. I wrote it about a year and a half ago to deal with some problems I was having automatically deploying code while environment variables were being added and changed by developers. Obviously we try not to keep these in source control, so it
Side Projects promise you the world. You get to create whatever you’d like, in whatever language, framework, or architecture you want. You could get fame, glory, and even a little bit of side cash if you’re lucky. You can quit that job you hate and work from home full time! A side project is basically
I’ve never met a developer who enjoys writing documentation. I’m not entirely sure they exist. It’s not that we don’t think it’s important: most of us would begrudgingly agree that having well written documentation of what our system does would be incredible to have. And I think most of us have (or will, at some
Docker has become a huge buzzword in the software development industry over the past few years. People are flocking to this new(ish) technology, it’s a keyword that pops up on a ton of resumes, and for good reason! It’s a really cool piece of technology, and it has a ton of great applications for managing
