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* Replace MacBook with any high-end machine that requires a bunch of configuration for local dev. And replace iPad with any thin client that’s much more portable and convenient, eg…

We are certainly approaching the point where a high end MacBook Pro for development isn’t required. Feels very close to just being able to use an iPad? My current workplace deploy …

Interesting timing for me personally as I just switched from running Codex in multiple tabs in Cursor to Ghostty. It had nicer fonts by default, better tab switching that was consi…

My collection of art, philosophy and poetry apps. They have previously just been on iOS but I just finished the Kotlin port of the art one, so will be releasing that soon. The poet…

I find creating an app around a subject is actually a great way to teach myself about something. I previously had success with a classic poems app then a philosophy app. Art histor…

I very recently created an app that helps people learn art history. https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/for-arts-sake/id6744744230 It’s a first version, and there’s a lot more content an…

Humble plug for my poetry app. When I was getting into poetry I was reading a lot of them online but found the majority of sites to have awful designs with garish ads that complete…

SwiftUI. Cloud Firestore. GPT-4o-mini. Add a word or phrase and get a definition or translation in any language. (Including Klingon). If you add a word like "fork (cutlery)" it wil…

You could make a similar argument for self-driving cars. We would have got there quicker if the roads were built from the ground up for automation. You can try to get the world on …

Humble plug for the poetry app I created for iOS. The Poetry Corner is written in React Native, and contains over 40,000 public-domain poems, and surfaces the classics in a beautif…

To be fair in the human-based teams I've worked with in startups I couldn't show you products with decent retention.

When multiple senior people resign in protest, it's indicative that they're not happy with someone among their own ranks who they vehemently disagree with. John Schulman and Greg l…

This took about 30 days to build. The Slackbot is powered by a serverless function which runs on Google Cloud. The web app is built with Next.js and uses Slack Open ID Connect to c…

GPT is a game changer. My new mantra, and what I've been telling developer friends, is "Don't build one side project, build twelve." I realised that this is effectively what VCs do…

I think this hits the nail on the head. Obviously a lot of the participants in this discussion are programmers, so there is going to be a fair amount of bias where people feel like…

This does sound like a test that is almost "set up to fail" for an LLM. If the answer is something that most people think they know, but actually don't then it won't pass in an LLM…

One could also feel a moonquake while looking at an earthrise.

One of my favourite books is Huysman’s Against Nature, where the anti-hero protagonist has a fascination with these paintings. Oscar Wilde used that book as the inspiration for the…

Absolutely. Fortunately using react native will make it easier to be on both platforms.

All feedback is interesting, so thank you :) > why is this a native app and not a website? I’ve wanted to build one for a while, I’m a web dev by trade so a side-project is a good …

Thanks for the feedback! 1. Account creation isn’t actually necessary, if a user wants to back up their saved poems they can just use iCloud to sync them. 2. The subscription large…

TLDR - scratched my own itch with an app, added a pro plan and got my first subscribers this week! Last December I started digging into poetry, it was a topic I always thought I li…

For anyone looking to explore poetry a bit further, I did create an app for this purpose. The design, development and curation of the app is all done by me. It’s a react native app…

> According to a report published by the National Audit Office, just over 1 percent of COVID-19 contracts worth $24bn awarded to suppliers between March and July last year, were aw…

You can also mention how companies encourage disloyalty by paying new starters significantly more than existing employees. I’ve seen great people working hard towards a promotion, …