Shipping Stuff

By Ian Wootten

Each month I share what's new with me along with the stories, tools and code behind developers who ship great products.

Previous issues

Is it Time to Fly the Nest?

#28 Nov 6, 2022

AI is Everywhere!

#27 Oct 2, 2022

I finally caught Covid

#26 Sep 4, 2022

#25

Aug 14, 2022

Selling Products from the Beach 🏖️ – Something really nice at the moment is seeing sales of “Side Projects Making $$$+” without my market
#24

Jul 3, 2022

Becoming a Slave to the Algorithm – A month after talking about how focusing on media that is simpler to create and enjoying a bumper 4 v
#23

Jun 5, 2022

Keeping things Simple – Last month I talked about my experience hitting a trending topic on YouTube and making lower effort v
#22

May 8, 2022

Open the Box – During April I unboxed and looked over a refurbished M1 Pro Macbook Pro on my YT channel. I was sligh
#21

Apr 3, 2022

Selling My First Digital Product – This month, I launched my first ever digital product "Side Projects Making $$$+". I decided after com
#20

Mar 6, 2022

I Hit the Top Spot on Hacker News 🙌 – This month I hit the top spot on Hacker News - or rather, an article I wrote for a client did. Grante
#19

Feb 6, 2022

The Ultimate Side Project Story – Like everyone else in January, I've been hooked on Wordle, the daily word guessing puzzle game that r
#18

Jan 2, 2022

Try Something New in 2022 – I was recently reminded that on January 1st 2019, I wrote down 3 goals I wanted to achieve over that
#17

Dec 5, 2021

The 2021 Retrospective – 2021 is almost over and it's that time when we're all asked to reflect on what we've achieved over th
#16

Nov 7, 2021

Who buys all the Pi's? – Did you know that October is apparently 'Techtober'? A time when large tech companies release their e
#15

Oct 3, 2021

Go with your gut – If there's one adage I stand by from my years on this earth, it's the one of "Going with your gut". I
#14

Sep 5, 2021

Reflecting On My Computing History – When I was at primary school, my first foray into using computers was taking books from the library t
#13

Aug 8, 2021

I'm a.... Creator? – The idea that "creating content" can be a full time job seems crazy at first. Yet, we're regularly fe
#12

Jul 11, 2021

On Working as a Pipeline Developer – This week I felt quite nostalgic after seeing a job advert for a role I used to do at my old employer
#11

Jun 27, 2021

Getting Paid as a Technical Author – Last week I did something I've never done before. I was paid to write an article for the fine folks a
#10

Jun 13, 2021

The Dependencies You Never Knew About – Most people don't care about content delivery networks or know anything about them. They would merril
#9

May 30, 2021

Removing Distractions to Focus – Twitter is a cruel mistress. In the one hand you can engage with a fantastic network, enjoy a constan

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