One reason web development appeals to me is that while it can be complicated, it doesn’t have to be. You can build for the web like it’s 1995. For native apps, the complexity is required with tools, code signing, stores. Thinking about this as I wait for my code to be crunched and uploaded to Apple.
@manton I realised I was planning updates to TIL in a bad way — basically mimicking app development with the big release and version numbers and so on — and the biggest change I've made over the past few months is switching to the better way of the web: make changes when they are ready and hold announcements for when it's really worth grabbing people's attention.
Not only feels better but I've made a bunch of much better decisions about the project as a whole. All of those complicated parts of native apps mostly feels excessive to me and seems to be mostly weighted against the best interests of people who want to actually use the software.
@manton Didn't a large company like Facebook try this in its early days during the transition to mobile and then eventually give in in lieu of native apps?
