wCTO Month 2: 500 Deployments, 3 Business Processes, 1 Sparrow
After 500 deployments and 137k lines of code, the biggest lesson is business beats code every time.
Wife-App
wCTO Weeks 5 & 6: One Does Not Simply Upload Photos
Two weeks of architectural refactoring, expensive naps, and the deceptively complex journey of building a simple upload button.
wCTO Week 4: When AI Agents Meet Reality (and Your Basement Floods)
AI agents, missed deadlines, and over 60 gallons of basement water. Trust level: 35%.
wCTO Week 3: The Infrastructure Grind and My 8-Year Apple Developer Identity Crisis
Shipped to TestFlight, automated releases, and learned that ‘infrastructure week’ doesn’t impress spouses.
wCTO Week 2: 2 weeks ago I started as a wCTO (wife's CTO).
Built features that save 73% of photo processing time. Wife’s response: ‘What about the other 27%?’
wCTO Week 1: I just added my first open source swift package
My wife sells vintage clothes. I’m building her an app. What could go wrong?
wCTO Day 1: What took me weeks took Gemini Pro 2.5 12 hours and $80
Built a Swift app in 12 hours with zero Swift experience. Gemini Pro 2.5 + $80 = mind blown.