I'm Todd Spatafore — software engineering manager, indie iOS developer, and YouTuber. I made Tome Town because I wanted a good PDF reader that didn't cost $10 a month. I make videos because I'm learning this stuff anyway.
Your books. On your device. No cloud required.
Read PDFs and epubs on your iPad without handing over your email address or paying forever.
A few things I've found to be true after 20+ years of writing software.
Tome Town costs $4.99. No subscription, no account required, no upsells. I built the app I wanted to use.
My YouTube channel is me figuring things out — Kubernetes, Go, homelab experiments. I'm learning anyway, might as well film it.
I've seen what complexity does to software. I try to make things that do one job well and stay out of your way.
I'm a software engineering manager at Fandango, where we work on streaming video. I've been writing code professionally for over 20 years.
On the side, I make iOS apps and YouTube videos. Tome Town started because I wanted an iPad app for reading PDFs and epubs that didn't need a subscription or an account. The YouTube channel is mostly homelab stuff — Kubernetes, Go, whatever I'm building at the moment.
Software manager. App maker. Filming the whole thing.