@Adam Sof I am sure you had your reasons. But why not looking for something that you have a proven track record in? Sure I have a CS degree. But it means nothing without experience. When hiring developers, nobody looks at that paper. Everyone, including me, is looking for experience. And to gain experience I shipped …. something. And that something gave me chance to gain more experience in that field. When starting out as a dev I had a shitload of things I have build. I did this for me, because I thought it’s worth building. So I think you have two options when you want to pursue „a career“ or „a living from/with“ development. You build „something“ until it’s enough that somebody realizes your potential and is willing to invest in you and hires you as a junior. When this happens I would then stay in that position until there is nothing more to learn. Then you have your career that you wanted. With more experience, more projects will come. Or, you try to sell that „something“ on your own. Like iOS Apps here.

@Adam Sof If your concern are LLM‘s, then I can tell you that it’s not possible to replace seasoned developer with that. Yes sure, it’s possible to offload „labour work“ to that. And it’s maybe possible to let related tools do the same for design. But they will create replicas of things in their datasets. There is no reasoning in a LLM, it’s replications/statistical re-representation that many humans are afraid of and consider it to be magical. Don’t get me wrong. I am using the tech. My last prompt at work to a LLM was today, where I let it write a script for zsh where it was looking for a glob pattern in a folder, mapped all results into a big structure, added some string manipulation on each path and let it all dump into a single file where I copy the results from. That script from the LLM was hacky and is just the tool I used to complete the actual task of fixing SwiftLint exclude paths from globbed pattern matches to relative paths and the execution time that the actual problem for my team was. Believe me, no LLM would have found the actual issue. It can not even understand the problem when I tell it: make the build faster …. the point I wanted to make is: programming is not the problem! It’s understanding the context, details, implications, limitations, tooling and translating the problem. And that is the job. The job is not „programming“. No clue where you worked with UI/UX people. Those folks I work with, from that domain, are using the tool UI/UX for the same problem from a different perspective. They do research, surveys, conversation with users, A/B tests theories, design systems, mockups, …. They try to envision how the product would be the best way and I ask them how it functions/should function and translate that into technical stuff….. a feature, a story, a subtask ….. to do that it takes a bunch of people and we all have to collaborate. So when looking at professions I want to make sure that you understand that doing a reset is nullifying your previous work (in the eyes of others) and you restart.

@Aivars Meijers nice. Thank you

@Platon Pobozhiy Sorry for the very rough and direct opinion on those screens. And I can NOT do it myself better, can’t do design. But here is what I would do. - I would come up with concise names for things in the gamifications : days, streaks, points. Whatever and use them. - Starts with 1 when no data available yet - I would group things visually - I would add some titles - I would hide some info about calculation(whose points) and only show progress when available

I was holding hands with my younger daughter while she was falling asleep and I writing this. Sorry for typos and so on.

@Franklin Byaruhanga I guess the saying goes: life is what happens when you try to make plans..... referring from posting my cv here. but it was awesome so far. and i will improve it with shipping some apps.

@Franklin Byaruhanga and yes. Those are some standard Keychron keyboards. Nothing fancy here.