Fragmented - AI Developer Podcast

In this episode, Donn talks to Jay Ohms about Turbo Native for Android, Hotwire, and how to build apps faster with Hotwire, Turbo, Stimulus, and Strata. Jay is an Android developer at Basecamp.com and Hey.com and has been building Hey with Android Turbo since it has been released (he's one of the developers of it).

You'll learn what Hotwire is, how to use it with Android Turbo (and Stimulus and Strata) and how you can create apps faster and more maintainable by marrying the concepts of the web with native code. It's a fascinating technology, and one that Donn will be using very shortly for a SaaS product he's working on.

• Hotwire.dev
• Turbo Native for Android
• Turbo Native for iOS
• Stimulus
• Hey
• Basecamp
• Basecamp is Hiring an Android Dev - email jay @ basecamp dot com

• Jay's Twitter
• Email: jay @ basecamp dot com

• Job postings are FREE on AndroidJobs.IO during the early release phase (at the time of this recording).
• Sign up to get notified of new jobs on a weekly basis as well.
• AndroidJobs.IO

• Free E-Book on Freelancing Rates

@fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel

@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)

Freelancing for Mobile Developers (Donn's YouTube)

kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

Disclaimer: Many of the links we share to products are affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.

In this episode, Donn talks dives into his favorite software book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code. He talks about one of the introduction level topics: The Legacy Code Change Algorithm

You'll learn what it is and how you can use it as the basis for this new series that will be focused on the book, Working Effectively with Legacy Code.

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code

• Job postings are FREE on AndroidJobs.IO during the early release phase (at the time of this recording).
• Sign up to get notified of new jobs on a weekly basis as well.
• AndroidJobs.IO

• Free E-Book on Freelancing Rates

• @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel

• @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)

• Freelancing for Mobile Developers (Donn's YouTube)

• kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

• Disclaimer: Many of the links we share to products are affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.

In this episode, Donn talks to software developer Alan Hill about the Growth Mindset and how it applies to software development and life in general.

They chat about pull request feedback lifecycle, learning new tech, and how applying a growth mindset can advance you in your career further than you could have imagined. They wrap up by going through Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset "back and forth" to discuss the differences.

Mindset image

• Alan Hill Social and Web Links

• Can't Hurt Me - David Goggins
• Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
• Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink
• Tom Bilyeu Instagram

• Job postings are FREE on AndroidJobs.IO during the early release phase (at the time of this recording).
• Sign up to get notified of new jobs on a weekly basis as well.
• AndroidJobs.IO

• Free E-Book on Freelancing Rates

@fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel

@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)

Freelancing for Mobile Developers (Donn's YouTube)

kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

Disclaimer: Many of the links we share to products are affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.

In this episode, Donn talks about the difference between working at a big tech company vs freelancing.

There are many pro's and con's for each. What is best for you? Listen to the episode and find out.

• Job postings are FREE on AndroidJobs.IO during the early release phase (at the time of this recording).
• Sign up to get notified of new jobs on a weekly basis as well.
• AndroidJobs.IO

• Free E-Book on Freelancing Rates

• @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel

• @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)

• Freelancing for Mobile Developers (Donn's YouTube)

• kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

• Disclaimer: Many of the links we share to products are affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.

In this episode, Donn talks about the importance of following code conventions and coding styles in codebases.

You'll run into various different coding conventions throughout your career. Sometimes it's as an employee, sometimes it's as a freelancer or consultant or just a small side project. The number of coding "styles" that you'll see will blow your mind as you work through your career. The big question is ... should you adhere to the current coding convention that is used in the app/file/etc or should you use your own favorite or an industry standard?

In this episode, I'll help explain the differences so you can make an informed decision going forward.

• Martin Fowlers Blog

• Job postings are FREE on AndroidJobs.IO during the early release phase (at the time of this recording).
• Sign up to get notified of new jobs on a weekly basis as well.
• AndroidJobs.IO

• Free E-Book on Freelancing Rates

• @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel

• @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)

• Freelancing for Mobile Developers (Donn's YouTube)

• kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

• Disclaimer: Many of the links we share to products are affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.

In this episode, Donn talks to David and Ross from Squeaky Dog Studios about building a business out of a side project.

David and Ross are long-time serial side project developers with experience that dates back to the Palm era. They've built games, apps, and now Watch Faces.

We dive deep into how they went from building their watch faces for Android as a side project and how they turned it into a full-time business in which one of the co-founders works full-time. We talk about building the app, pricing, support, which features to build, paid vs free, trial conversions, supporting your app and much much more.

If you've ever wanted to build a side project into a business, and it's app-based... this one is for you.

Android Apps by Squeaky Dog Studios on Google Play

• Photowear
• Just A Minute
• Pride Time
• UnicornWear

Other links by Squeaky Dog Studios

• Squeaky Dog Studios
• YouTube
• Company Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• Facebook
• David's Twitter

• Job postings are FREE on AndroidJobs.IO during the early release phase (at the time of this recording).
• Sign up to get notified of new jobs on a weekly basis as well.
• AndroidJobs.IO

• Free E-Book on Freelancing Rates

@fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel

@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)

Freelancing for Mobile Developers (Donn's YouTube)

kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

Disclaimer: Many of the links we share to products are affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.

In this episode, Donn talks about the three things that every developer needs to know how to do.

These three things include:

1. How to identify and stop premature optimization

2. How to write tests and know the difference between unit, integration and end-to-end tests.

3. How to set up a continuous integration server

   While there are vast arrays of other things all developers need to know how to do, and we will cover them in future episodes, this small list will help you vastly in your career. It has helped mine (Donn) a ton.

1. Managed Services
   1. Github
   2. GitLab
   3. Bitbucket
   4. Azure Devops
   5. CircleCI
   6. Bitrise
   7. Codemagic
2. Self hosted
   1. Jenkins
   2. TeamCity

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

• Job postigns are FREE on AndroidJobs.IO during the early release phase (at the time of this recording).
• Sign up to get notififed of new jobs on a weekly basis as well.
• AndroidJobs.IO

• Free E-Book on Freelancing Rates

• @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel

• @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)

• Freelancing for Mobile Developers (Donn's YouTube)

• kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

• Disclaimer: Many of the links we share to products are affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.

In this episode, Donn answers a listener's question. The listener wanted to know how to choose what to learn next in Tech.

Donn provides 6 tips (actually 7 if you count a hidden one) on how to pick what technology to learn next. He provides a simple framework that will help you check whether you should pursue a particular technology or not.

• Startups for the Rest of Us Podcast
• Rob Walling

• Job postings are FREE on AndroidJobs.IO during the early release phase (at the time of this recording).
• Sign up to get notified of new jobs on a weekly basis as well.
• Post jobs and sign up here: AndroidJobs.IO

• Free E-Book on Freelancing Rates

@fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel

@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)

Freelancing for Mobile Developers (Donn's YouTube)

kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

Disclaimer: Many of the links we share to products are affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.

In this episode, Donn talks with Philipp Lackner about growing an online presence within the Software Industry with Instagram and YouTube.

You'll learn how Philipp went from 0 to over 80,000 followers on Instagram. This was done all organically by posting valuable content every single day to his feed.

You'll also learn how he uses YouTube (as well as Instagram) as a marketing channel for his own course products that he sells via his site.

We wrap up by talking about content strategy, what tools are used, captions and hashtags. This episode is chock full of great info if you're learning how to grow your following online.

• Canva
• Adobe Creative Cloud - Photoshop/After Effects/Illustrator
• FreePik - Images and Icons
• Camtasia
• Later.com - Social Scheduling
• ContentRow.com

• Instagram
• YouTube
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Website

• Free E-Book on Freelancing Rates

• @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel

• @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)

• Freelancing for Mobile Developers (Donn's YouTube)

• kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

• Disclaimer: Many of the links we share to products are affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.

In this episode Donn talks about why you need to learn React (or Flutter) - so you can truly understand the Unidirectional data flow pattern in a framework that was built for that purpose alone.

Working with other frameworks which bolt on a custom unidirectional data flow is often hard to understand. When you work with React and learn how it works, the concept of Unidirectional data flow starts to make much more sense as that is the default way to implement UI's in technologies like React (and Flutter).

This exposes you to the pattern and helps you understand it. In turn, this will help you become a better developer.

Unidirectional Data flow Image

How to learn React:

• Tyler McGinnis Course on React (this is how I learned it)
• Tyler McGinnis React Hooks Course

How to Learn Flutter

• Rohan Taneja's Flutter from Zero to Hero Course (Free)
• Flutter Crash Course

• Free E-Book on Freelancing Rates

• @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
• @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
• Freelancing for Mobile Developers (Donn's YouTube)
• kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

Disclaimer: Many of the links we share to products are affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.