Jens Skott — platform engineer and indie app developer. Field notes on building, dogfooding, and shipping iOS and web products.https://jensskott.com/https://jensskott.com/writing/income-not-a-business/https://jensskott.com/writing/income-not-a-business/A clip about apps that print money — and the stop-vaping example in it — made me see the gap between an income and a business, and rethink where my hours go.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTindieb2bfocusironwolfstartupshttps://jensskott.com/writing/my-own-worst-user/https://jensskott.com/writing/my-own-worst-user/I build apps and platform tools because nothing else fits how I think — and the hard part was never the code. On necessity, restraint, and judging what to build by use, not by how fun it is to make.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildingproductindieplatform-engineeringhttps://jensskott.com/writing/react-native-firebase-to-native-backendless/https://jensskott.com/writing/react-native-firebase-to-native-backendless/I built a workout app the way a backend engineer would — React Native, Firebase, anonymous auth, Cloud Functions. Then I deleted all of it. The migration to native and backendless, and what it taught me.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTreact-nativefirebasenativebackendlessswiftsteelrephttps://jensskott.com/writing/the-progression-bug-i-found-mid-set/https://jensskott.com/writing/the-progression-bug-i-found-mid-set/A bug in my own app where the program quietly stopped delivering its prescribed intensity — found mid-squat, not in CI — and why dogfooding catches what tests cannot.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTdogfoodingsteelrepiosprogressionhttps://jensskott.com/writing/how-this-site-is-built/https://jensskott.com/writing/how-this-site-is-built/A short colophon: why jensskott.com is static Astro on Cloudflare, why I own the canonical, and how the OG images and analytics are wired.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTastrocloudflareseobuilding-in-public