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Blog post: Why Your 40th App is the One That Finally Prints
Nov 13, 2025
12 min

Why Your 40th App is the One That Finally Prints

Learnings from Building in Public

After 2.5 months building Border Times, I'm starting to understand why it takes dozens of attempts to find success. It's not about luck—it's about mastering five different disciplines at once.

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Blog post: Border Times iOS App Now Available
Oct 18, 2025
5 min

Border Times iOS App Now Available

Building a Small-Scale Online Business

We built an app because waiting at the border really sucks. Download Border Times on iOS and join thousands of border crossers saving time and sanity.

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Blog post: They say the best business ideas start with solving a personal problem!
Sep 25, 2025
4 min

They say the best business ideas start with solving a personal problem!

Building a Small-Scale Online Business

From border crossing frustrations to launching border-times.com - how personal problems become business solutions.

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Blog post: Protection from advertisements
Sep 17, 2025
6 min

Protection from advertisements

Building a Small-Scale Online Business

The internet feels like an advertising scheme.

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Blog post: Status Tracker
Nov 18, 2024
8 min

Status Tracker

Part 2

In part two we cover updating the status tracker to have updatable state. We also swap out the titles to have a description of a state, rather than the progress state.

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Blog post: Status Tracker
Nov 18, 2024
8 min

Status Tracker

Part 1

Make a customizable status tracker with SwiftUI.

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Blog post: How close is AI to replacing your job?
Nov 15, 2024
2 min

How close is AI to replacing your job?

Is llama3.1 ready for your job?

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Blog post: Markdown files with AWS
Nov 14, 2024
2 min

Markdown files with AWS

How to avoid .md files not being served.

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Blog post: Collapsable Indicator
Nov 13, 2024
5 min

Collapsable Indicator

Build a collapsable indicator in pure SwiftUI.

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