WordPress, then React, now Swift
Three defaults in about ten years, and why none of them really replaced the one before. What changed wasn't the tools. It was the shape of what people were asking for.
Web developer, agency founder, and maker of small things.
I'm Josh — a UK-based web developer. I run Prystine, a web agency, and build products and tools across the web. This is where I write about building, shipping, and the occasional tangent.
I could have made it a subscription. I didn't.
My House, My Things is £34.99, once. A record isn't a service: it doesn't need to be running to be useful, it needs to still be there in ten years.
If you build it, they won't come
The line is a misquote, and it was never a distribution plan. What actually happens after you ship something, and why building is the easy part.
When was the boiler last serviced?
I couldn't say when my boiler was last serviced or what the kitchen paint was. The answers existed, just nowhere I could find them. So I started building.
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- Quotify
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- LeerHaus
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- My House, My Things
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- Lifting Times
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