Over the past several years I’ve been building ExploreHere, an iOS and Android app that lets you explore local history via ~180k historical markers & interpretive signs anywhere in the world. These historical markers are put up along roadways, trails and national ...

For the next iteration of ExploreHere, I’m working to give every square mile of the world a story that describes the land’s history, ecosystem, geology, flora/fauna, etc. By combining dozens of databases that describe a single aspect of this story, I’m hoping to generate a digital twin of the ...

I’ve seen a few posts in the React Native community mentioning how Expo shouldn’t be used and how it’s like “training wheels for React Native” and I wanted to share my understanding of what Expo is and is not… Managed vs Bare ...

In my last update, it had been 8 months since releasing ExploreHere. Since then, I continued to assess things that were ...

I launched ExploreHere to the iOS app store in March of 2020, right at the start of the COVID 19 pandemic. I monetized version one with a pro upgrade via an in app purchase (IAP), which unlocked some key features like continuous tracking, saving your viewing history, liking ...

As I travel, I like learning about the world around me – I enjoy going to museum, reading dioramas, etc. When I pass historical markers off the sides of roadways/highways, In most cases, I’m either driving too fast to safely pull off to read it, or, the marker wasn’t interesting enough to ...

Back when I was studying at Texas A&M, one of my senior projects was a classification engine built on heartbeat data pulled from a FitBit. The hypothesis was, I could build an algorithm to ‘guess’ what I was doing at any given time, based solely on my personal heartbeat. If you take a second to ...

Life is busy. It’s a constant stream of tasks, that can often pile up and become overwhelming. Now there are a plethora of task management systems and methodologies, from GTD (Get Things Done), Pomodoros, MindMapping, Kanban Boards, Google Calendar, traditional ToDo Lists, this list is never ending. Each ...

WordPress. As a web-developer that word use to make me cringe… I studied Computer Science and I always looked down on WordPress developers. I thought they didn’t understand or respect coding and gave ‘real’ web developers a bad name.

I spoke about the hiring process in BC&D: My First Hire Part 1: Hiring Process. I hired a Virtual Assistant! I had a bunch of tasks that I queued up to have my VA work on. First I’d have to spend a ...