Side Projects

65 articles

• 5 apps with the modern web stack — Jan 29, 2020
• Most professional engineers can't build an app from scratch — Jan 20, 2020
• 5 crazy ideas that make $1,000/month — Jan 17, 2020
• Building software is a distraction — Sep 20, 2019
• Indie startup more profitable than Uber 😛 — Feb 18, 2019
• How I sidehustled $180k and why it almost killed my business — Dec 31, 2018
• React for Dataviz Turkey 🦃 sale report for the curious — Nov 28, 2018
• Oh the things you can learn with a fun weekend hack project 🏗 — Nov 19, 2018
• How virtual memory saves lives, workshops, and your sanity — Aug 21, 2018
• Answering some common questions about React + D3 2018 — Aug 2, 2018
• Announcing: Big update to my best selling book and course, React + D3v4 — Jul 26, 2018
• How running a side business is a lot like running a marathon — Jul 25, 2018
• The surprising benefit of hiring interns to write your code — Jul 20, 2018
• Hire these interns — Jul 10, 2018
• Upgrading to Gatsby v2 with the help of the hivemind 👌 — Jun 26, 2018
• Some tricks I learned recording & publishing an educational video every day for 30 days — May 24, 2018
• What I learned at MicroConf Growth 2018 — May 10, 2018
• Does blogging really drive sales? — Apr 17, 2018
• Working IN your career vs. ON your career — Mar 7, 2018
• The story of my family is the story of survivorship bias's other side — Feb 19, 2018
• 2018 is off to a rocky start — Feb 7, 2018
• Don't say yes when you're happy — Jan 17, 2018
• Am I thinking too small? — Jan 11, 2018
• How I sidehustled $72,167 last year, and what I wanna do next — Jan 3, 2018
• My new 5K monitor – LG UltraFine 5K 😱 — Dec 11, 2017
• $2535 November sidehustle report — Dec 4, 2017
• $16,863 October sidehustle report — Nov 2, 2017
• What I learned from teaching StubHub about React and Redux — Oct 17, 2017
• $9013 September sidehustle report – or why the React + D3v4 launch was not 6 figures or even 5 — Oct 4, 2017
• $2629 August sidehustle report — Sep 8, 2017
• The story behind React + D3v4 — Aug 22, 2017
• $3426 July sidehustle report — Aug 2, 2017
• How to start a sidehustle — Jul 20, 2017
• $4093 June sidehustle report — Jul 3, 2017
• Initial Results of my Patreon Experiment — Jun 19, 2017
• First day with a new 2017 MacBook Pro — Jun 15, 2017
• $2890 May sidehustle report — Jun 6, 2017
• What happened to React + D3v4? — May 10, 2017
• How I Got Boned by Taxes Two Years in a Row — May 4, 2017
• $2529 April sidehustle report — May 3, 2017
• $5874 March sidehustle report — Apr 4, 2017
• Why I don't write more Nightowls type stuff — Apr 3, 2017
• Why People Read my Weekly Emails — Mar 20, 2017
• This is how I connected my Canon DSLR as a webcam — Mar 9, 2017
• $3875 February sidehustle report — Mar 7, 2017
• Nights and Weekends — Jan 23, 2017
• What I learned while 6x-ing my income in 4 years — Jan 9, 2017
• React Indie Bundle flopped. Here's why. — Dec 9, 2016
• These 19 Words are the Only Self-Help & Business Advice You Need — Nov 7, 2016
• Some facts about US household income — Sep 29, 2016
• I Got Schooled — Sep 2, 2016
• After a year, my first business diary retires — Aug 26, 2016
• The ES6 Cheatsheet story and results — Aug 17, 2016
• The surprising difficulty of paying the US government — Jun 23, 2016
• Things I learned from doing my first workshop — Jun 9, 2016
• Why I switched to making products — Jun 3, 2016
• Does it even make sense to move to San Francisco? — May 13, 2016
• React Indie Bundle report, or how we made $31k in a week — Dec 18, 2015
• How a book I wrote in two weeks made $4,000 in its first month — May 1, 2015
• It took me ten months to write a video course — Feb 5, 2015
• After five months, my effective hourly rate with a publisher is 3eur/hour — Mar 24, 2014
• I published a book with a publisher. Here's what the journey was like. — Oct 29, 2013
• Facebook ads: good for likes, bad for sales — Jun 12, 2013
• Why every entrepreneur should take up boxing — Feb 10, 2012
• Why programmers work at night — Dec 15, 2011