12 Years On: A Retrospective
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Thirteen years of mobile and backend work distilled into concrete lessons: starts by shipping Java Card apps on SIM cards that reach thousands to millions in Europe, pivots to Android in 2010 and relies on StackOverflow and a personal blog, wrestles and ultimately debugs the Android build system, watches a networking stack survive 3–4 years then break after a tweak and resist a blanket rewrite to RxJava, and emphasizes ship early, measure metrics, and fix root causes.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and early life
- 10:07Lessons from support work
- 13:30Simplicity and complexity in code
- 17:30Career insecurity and growth
- 21:08Mistakes and team dynamics
- 26:23Legacy code and humility
- 30:41Pragmatism and focus
- 34:58Intentionality and change
- 37:11Appreciation and community
- 40:02Success and self-belief
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