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I build things; won't shut up about'em.

AI-bashing and why it's hurting freelance developers

AI-bashing and why it's hurting freelance developers

Short editorial about artificial intelligence and freelance developers today. These are my views and you are by no means obliged to abide by them. I have been seeing a lot of AI-bashing among developers as of lately. The morale is sinking lower and lower by the day and the craze

Just reached 100$ MRR with my app

Just reached 100$ MRR with my app

I've been toying around with AI for a while and published an app that aimed to be what ChatGPT is but with iOS native, with more character, that included a built-in prompt list, etc since I thought it was lacking from the real ChatGPT website. And it just reached 100$

Emails, here and now.

thinking outside the box

Emails, here and now.

Let’s think outside the box for a minute. Ever forgot to reply to an important message because you had a big day? Or maybe you received a message that needed to take action but you forgot what you had to do about it? It happened to all of us.

How I successfully transferred my Google account

How I successfully transferred my Google account

A little backstory For the last few years, I've been having an horrible Gmail-related bug. My old email address used to be t.bergeron@gmail.com but for as long as I can remember, it seems people registered similar emails like tbergeron@gmail.com. Terri Bergeron, Taylor Bergeron, Tiffany Bergeron,

mobile development

First Week with Xamarin

Why I turned heels on Apple's own solutions. We've been thinking about what to do with our iOS app for a while. After painfully discovering how Titanium got in the way of any ambitious plans we had, we had to find a better solution. That's when the whole question of

What happened to video games?

A short retrospective of why games "used to be good". In a world where we fight over the last copy of the latest Call of Duty game, we’re kinda stuck in a vicious cycle. That cycle has been introduced with the arrival of the Internet with the latest generation

Comfortable Sucks.

Today I realized something I already knew. You know like when you think something is part of your "principles" but you're doing the opposite anyway just because you never did it in the past so you gotta try to really know right? We all have goals, we work for them.

Just Ship It

I have been thinking a lot lately about "the right moment". That place in time where everything is just okay for release, every feature has been nailed and everybody is ready to welcome that awesome and ambitious application. When every milestone is done and finalized for production. All you have

project management

Using Trello for Project Management

I decided to write about some web app that I've been using for some time for the past three months. Trello. It's a very unconventional way of managing projects. And I gotta say I love it. At first, it seems to be a bit empty or plain, but it's just

First month++

It all goes too fast. Trust me. Last time I wrote here, was when I got my first satisfied client and since then so much stuff happened. I often read about startups and freelancer, they all say that there's a lot of surprises to be discovered, a lot of problems

One satisfied customer

I'd simply like to share this one little thing with the whole world right now: Hey Tommy, I like what you did for one of the report. Great, keep up the good work! This for me is worth a million bucks. This means I've made the right choices, and that

First week

Here's a bit of context: It's been almost two years I had this ambition. The ambition to be finally become my own boss, live from what I believe. I didn't know what to build, but I always knew that I wanted to build something great that would help people. Last

The Idea

Here's the worst part of it all. Some people may believe in idealess entrepreneurs, but I don't. I for one, believe that if you really want to grab someone's interest you must have a bright idea, many ambitions, and a personality that reflects these ambitions. But still this is all