I’ve been working on a few projects lately, and it has impacted my desire to blog more often. Just a few things I have been working on include:
Building a business – yeah. this is a big deal. I retired from my “day job” back in October, and since then I’ve been working with a startup called TVPCT, Inc. As Vice President – Technical Strategy and Operations, I am helping the team focus on two things:
- Improving their technical solution.
- Improving their operational posture.
Like many startups they have been working hard on creating a technical solution, that not only meets the needs of the founder, but that also addresses the many requests from visionary early users. They have an incredible solution that allows SMB (Small and Medium Businesses) take advantage of the recent explosion of AI capabilities. I’ve been helping them understand issues like Scalability, Maintainability, and Customer onboarding. It’s an exciting time to be working on these challenges.
Improving my technical credentials – I received my AWS Architect certification and am currently working on AWS Security certification. These two certifications are both technical and challenging. Many of the practices and learnings are applicable for other platforms too.
Releasing new Applications – I’ve released a new application back in January (Quick Localizer) which allows for easy localization of your application developed within Xcode. Xcode uses a xcstrings catalog for all the strings in your application. As such, we can take advantage of Apple’s language support on macOS to translate strings from one language to another. I am currently working on two new applications:
- Vinyl tracker – an application that allows you to keep track of the vinyl records in your collection.
- Letter tracker – an application that allows you to track physical letters that you send to people.
I am really excited to work on these new applications, as they are giving me an opportunity to really stretch my knowledge of SwiftData and SwiftUI.