
A backstage perspective on bootstrapping apps
Hi. I'm Drew De Ponte, a full-stack polyglot developer, Co-founder and Partner at Uptech Studio, a boutique Product, Design, & Development studio.
Back in 2016 I started Uptech Studio with two friends of mine. Since then, one of the co-founders has left, we gained two more and have turned it into a successful boutique consultancy.
Now we are on a mission to bootstrap software products at Uptech Studio. My current focus is Pullwalla, a tool to help developers stay on top of pull requests and peer reviews. Follow along with backstage access via my blog & twitter.
Newsletter
Follow along as we attempt to transition from consulting to building & selling software products.
OSS Projects
I am also author and maintainer of a number of open source projects.
Git Patch Stack - is an add-on command for Git that facilitates using a patch-stack Git workflow while still using pull requests for peer review. This is also my preferred Git workflow.
Git Changelog - is an add-on command for Git that helps you track Changelog entries in your commit messages and supports building Markdown based Changelogs, helping you see what unreleased changes are, etc.
alt - makes it trivial to find the "alternate" file for a given file. e.g. If you were in a test file and wanted to find the associated implementation file. It accomplishes this by using a path similarity ranking algorithm so that it works for a decent number of languages and frameworks. It also supports trivial integration with editors such as Vim, etc.
togls - a Ruby feature toggle (feature flag) framework intended to support the natural growth and evolution of using feature toggles in a project from simple boolean flags, all the way to complex rule based toggles. It focuses heavily on testing around toggles and provides excellent documentation.
Constraid - makes it as simple as possible for you to programmatically use AutoLayout in your iOS & MacOS projects. It does this by providing higher level concepts such as cup
, flush
, etc. that make it easier to reason about your layouts, and focusing on being fully discoverable via auto-completion.
You can find my vim plugins along with many other OSS projects I have created at /drewdeponte and /uptech.
Prose
If you are interested in checking out articles I have written checkout my blog or go to Uptech Studio - Engineering.
Work History
If you are interested in my work history check out or my resume.
Reach Out
Follow me on twitter or email me at drew [at] uptechstudio.com.
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