Devlog

I hope one day I stop building other's dream and start working on my own. to achieve that I decided I will pick up a few abandoned projects. Dust them off, and make it to the first release.

It was about time to start building towards my goals.

Starting a project can never happen without a plan. This is one of the first rules that I made sure I follow. Don't start coding until there is a plan what is the expectation and the result.

Thankfully Github is perfect to keep everything in one place, for a project planning I stick to my engineering side and spin up a quick repository with a simple Kanban Project and sketch out my ideal V1 state.

Creating tickets helps me realise the time I have to allocate and spend on various tasks and I can plan forward with my time during the Year.

No deadlines! I got enough of them on my day to day job, but seeing a green bar filling up with completed tasks is inspiring enough to keep pushing onward.

V1 releases are usually a significantly long stretch. It doesn't have to be crazy AAA level application, but software development is also a notable time investment. So milestones got introduced as a small batch of features or improvements as early releases like

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Milestones help me feel some accomplishment and keep me engaged on the topic even when life is happening. Plus, it enables me to showcase what I am currently working on and let others try out my app.

Before writing code, I started linking CI/CD service, which turned out just amazing. I have learned a lot about Github workflows and it helps a lot catching minor issues and consistency in my project.

The CD pipeline is an immense help with deployment. When I get questions about my progress I can easily show the app state or invite people to join as testers.

I stumble upon

and

, and they gave me huge inspiration to start building something similar. Lately, I was looking into ways of podcasting anyhow and this would surely improve my writing and speaking skills. So, I will start creating my devlog and hope I will see you in the first season! 🙂