I’m beyond excited that PocketShelf is finally out now! Please help us spread the word! ❤️

1/12 Had a mind-bending experience attending London's AppsForum in the last 2 days, have months-worth of homework to implement now. Here are the best nuggets:

🛑Google broke the File Picker view that now shows this message even if a valid OAuth token is provided. This wasn't happening until recently. Does anyone have a workaround?

The struggle of a developer depending on a third party (👀 Google) that breaks an API. Now I have to provide an alternative to the file picker.

Google is obviously tweaking their File Picker API live on Production 😱 How it started: an ugly but working file picker Then a Cookie error Finally: a not working file picker

Coding a feature is the easy part. Here I’m parsing a Google Drive file URL then check I can read it as a Spreadsheet. It’s all the ways it can possibly fail that need to be handled that take 80% of the time. Then make all that user friendly…

Until Google fixes its File Picker so it can be used from an app, this is what I came up with: The user has to copy/paste a link to the desired Sheet from Google Drive. I don't like it but it's the best achievable considering current limitations.

Switching between your day job and your side project

A short story about the risk of a third party service…

Looks like I’ll be doing a fourth Google File Picker version! I got feedback from Google that I should use a new beta API which I’m already experimenting with. It is using the OAuth flow and asks for user’s consent each time 😳

Say hello to Art of Flora 🌱 Available now for Pre-order! This sibling of Art of Fauna is all about the beautiful world of plants 🌸 Some things are the same: - Relaxing puzzle game - 20% of the proceeds are donated - Very accessible A thread 🧵 1/8 #indiedev #gamedev

We are running a Black Friday sale for PocketShelf, the reading tracker app that I built together with Frank Solleveld! 🫶 No matter if you read 3 books a week or are a terrible reader, like I am, PocketShelf can level up your reading experience! 📚 #books #reading

Arrows are tricky. For us, as the designer of the visual, it will be super clear what it means. But for someone looking at our visual for the first time, it can be highly ambiguous. Depending on the reader, the same arrow can mean sequence, zoom, range, label, movement,... 1/2