Dom the Developer

Dom the Developer is a professional application developer and software engineer based in Metro Detroit, Michigan. He writes README, a newsletter about software and the people who write it.

He builds across the stack and the platform matrix — Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, web, Node.js and Go, with side excursions into VR and AR — and his hackathon work runs from emotion recognition to cloud-based healthcare communication tooling.

what he writes here#

200 pieces, 129,965 words, published between January 3, 2025 and August 3, 2026: 92 news pieces, 101 essays, 5 reviews and 2 briefs.

The recurring subjects are ai, engineering, craft, opinion, platforms, architecture — and, more than any single topic, the gap between producing software and knowing whether it is correct.

editorial practice#

• Corrections in public. Mistakes are fixed in place with a note, never quietly rewritten. Nothing is deleted or renamed.
• Numbers get methodology. Benchmarks are cited with their configuration or they are not cited.
• Predictions get graded. Calls made in January are marked in December, including the wrong ones.
• No sponsored content. Nothing here is paid for by anyone.

elsewhere#

• web — domthedeveloper.com
• code — github.com/DomTheDeveloper
• projects — devpost.com/DomTheDeveloper