River City Connections—2026-05-18 (Patreon)

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GOOD MORNING

I mentioned on Friday that I was doing a little code upgrade for Roman. I thought I had mentioned that I had some concerns, but looking back, I don’t see where I did that.

Today, I decided to… ahem… confront Roman about it.

I’m exaggerating by using “confront,” but in a way, it feels that big to me. I needed to tell him he made a mistake. Not that the solution won’t work. It will. It’s just not the best way to proceed.

I called.

“Um… Roman? Hey… How was church?”

Okay, so I hedged a bit, then got to the point.

“I wanted to say I’m not happy with the outcome of the SwimFit project.”

“It works perfectly,” Roman replied.

“Here’s the problem. We just customized one of your basic apps to meet the client’s needs.”

“How’s that a problem?”

“Now you have two inventory management apps to support, not one. Making a custom version for SwimFit means any changes you ever make have to be made twice.”

Roman said nothing for a really long time. It felt like weeks according to my anxiety. The clock would probably say it was three seconds.

“Okay, Inventory Tracker Code, Phase II… you up for some more billables?”

“Wait, what?”

Roman cleared his throat. “You’ve seen the system. You see a problem. Sketch me a straw-man solution that overcomes the problem and allows different implementations for different needs. Scale the app up to make it more universal. You have some ideas off the top of your head?”

“I do. A few columns here and there, then code the input form so it knows how many fields each customer needs.”

“Okay, start there. Bill me for six hours of you just looking at the app and dreaming up how the inventory-tracking program can become next-generation.”

“I’ll have something when you get back from… wherever you’re going this week.”

“Deal.” We chatted about his trip with Hayes, then said goodbye.

And I’m out of characters available for this post. But that happened.

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