Field notes on building, dogfooding, and shipping iOS and web products — by Jens Skott.
What I actually do in the first month on a Google Cloud estate that grew without one — why I don't start with Terraform, why the billing console comes before the architecture diagram, and what has to be true before I leave.
Terraform owns the landing-zone literature and Pulumi does not, so the GCP-at-org-scale questions go unanswered. Factory components, state layout, ephemeral per-PR stacks, and the mistake I made first.
Google Cloud, Firebase, Cloudflare, Neon, Astro, React, Swift and Kotlin. The stack I build solo apps on, why I chose each piece, and why it suits my situation — not yours by default.
A clip about apps that print money — and the stop-vaping example in it — made me see the gap between an income and a business, and rethink where my hours go.
I build apps and platform tools because nothing else fits how I think — and the hard part was never the code. On necessity, restraint, and judging what to build by use, not by how fun it is to make.
I built a workout app the way a backend engineer would — React Native, Firebase, anonymous auth, Cloud Functions. Then I deleted all of it. The migration to native and backendless, and what it taught me.
A bug in my own app where the program quietly stopped delivering its prescribed intensity — found mid-squat, not in CI — and why dogfooding catches what tests cannot.
A short colophon: why jensskott.com is static Astro on Cloudflare, why I own the canonical, and how the OG images and analytics are wired.
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