I came to software development later than most. I didn't grow up writing code or get a CS degree. I started my iOS development journey in June 2024 — as a grown man, a husband, a dad, former Software QA Lead/Manager and now a full-time Product Owner — and decided to build something anyway. That late start actually gives me a unique lens on tech trends. I'm not a veteran who's seen every hype cycle. But I'm also not naive to it. I sit at an interesting intersection — someone w

I want to tell you something that most "developer journey" posts leave out. There are nights I close my MacBook at 11pm having written maybe 20 lines of Swift. Nights where I spent more time debugging a layout issue in SwiftUI than actually building a feature. Nights where I questioned whether I started this too late, whether I'm too busy, whether DayOffPlanner will ever actually ship. And then my son taps me on the shoulder before school and asks if we're training Taekwondo