Hi I'm Jordan...

I created Spend Stack, a personal finance app that is based on simple lists instead of complex spread sheets. It took me two attempts at it over the span of seven years. Finally, I figured it out and it was a success - eventually being featured in Apple stores, the App Store and more. It was acquired in December 2020.

Now, I'm working on writing a book over how to make Best-in-Class apps. Along the way I'm doing smaller projects like The Daily iOS as part of my mission to make stuff Apple indie developers that make their life easier.

It might be from a few different places:

Conferences and Podcasts

• 🎙 Empower Apps
• 🎙 Everyday Robots
• 🎙 Launched.FM Podcast
• 🎙 Swift by Sundell Episode 77
• 🎙 Stacktrace - The Indie Developer Interview Series Part 2
• 🎙 iPhreaks - The Life of an Image
• 🎙 Stacktrace - The Indie Developer Interview Series
• 🎙 Launched.FM Podcast Appearance
• 🎙 The Buffer Overflow Podcast
• 🎥 try Swift! NYC - The Life of an Image on iOS
• 🎙 Swift Origin Stories Podcast Appearance
• 🎥 Reducing Image Memory Consumption in 10 Minutes
• 🎥 Texture in 10
• 🎥 Swift Initializers
• 📓 Transitioning to Remote Devlopment
• 📓 Spend Stack Case Study
• 📓 Introduction to Swift V1

Books

• The Open Organization Guide to IT Culture Change
• The Open Organization Workbook

Awards and Honors

• Spend Stack - Multiple App Store features, and was selected for the Apple retail demo program.
• Webby Awards - Mobile Apps Best Practices
• Engineer of the Year

Interviews

• Indie Dev Mondays
• biz417
• Club MacStories Issue 234 Develop Interview
• 12 Years on the App Store
• WWDC 2020 Online (Wall Street Journal)
• Choosing Your Best Work Space (Springfield Business Journal)
• A Better Budgeting Tool (417 Magainze)

Other Places I've Written For

• NSHipster
• Pluralsight
• Overflow:Buffer Engineering Blog
• The Initial Commit
• Buddy Build
• Tuts +
• Sitepoint
• Sinch

It's a random post button! If you started with Swift in your iOS journey, then this might look a little foreign. For years, it was my go-to in Objective-C to generate a random number. It's quite nifty, passing you a random value based on the upper bound you pass it while also eliminating modulo bias.

I created this site from scratch using the incredibly helpful Tailwind CSS. Tech wise, it runs on the following:

• Jekyll, a robust static site generator, is used to manage and create Swiftjective-C. It uses no existing theme and is rolled from scratch.
• Visual Studio Code is my text editor of choice for web development.
• Kramdown is used for authoring each article.
• Netlify handles domain management and all deployment of its source code. Without it, I'm not sure this site would exist. It's easily the most intuitive way I've found to get a website up and rolling.
• Github is used for source control, and each article and the entire source code for this site is available there for collaboration and learning purposes. It's free to use and to change however you wish.

My highest accomplishment is marrying up (like, waaaaaay up) to my gorgeous wife and having our three kids. I have two boys, Bennett and Remy, along with my lovely daughter, Baylor. I tweet about my family all the time. Aside from programming, my other hobbies include video games and basketball.

I try my best to say yes to all podcasts and most conferences. Contact Me! me for more.

Right now I'm not doing any sponsorships for the site, as my publishing schedule might be erratic. The best way you can support me or this site is consider the extensive book I'm writing over how to make best-in-class apps, you can check it out here.

If you're just enjoying the site and wanna caffeinate me, you can buy me a coffee and I'd love that.