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I'll be honest, I struggled to get much done with SwiftUI each of the last four years but this summer I started 4 greenfield iOS 27 apps on SwiftUI and it's genuinely been pretty d…

I've been using agents to develop Mac and iOS apps for over a year now and I would say this post is bad advice, particularly because the excellent Xcode MCP requires Xcode to be ru…

Akira showed me this work in progress in January and I was pretty amazed by it, but I have to be honest—as someone who prides himself on clever OSS repo names, he just absolutely p…

Read this: > Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits the…

I'm glad to see this comment and the parent comment and the grandparent comment voted so near the top. I've had the same experience. I honestly would love to be able to give my Kag…

LOL, no, dumbing down was when I paid two months of subscription with the model literally struggling to write basic functions. Something Anthropic eventually acknowledged but offer…

lol, just yesterday a friend asked me if he should move his business to Railway from Heroku. Welp.

This feels a bit like when some Hubbers broke off to work on PlanetScale, except without the massively successful, proven-to-be-scalable open source tool to build off (Vitess). If …

Agree, extremely poorly reported out across numerous outlets.

This is true of the CLIs that start with `xcode` but not of the CLIs that start with `swift`. As `swift-format` and `swift-test` have come into their own, they're just as reliable …

This is madness. Some stories actually have good guys. I don't know Adam directly, but we have plenty of second degree connections. I've benefited immensely from his work, have nev…

FWIW, "write markdown, publish to my static site, and cross-post to social media" is exactly what I built POSSE Party to do. All your site needs is an Atom feed to read from https:…

POSSE Party ( http://posseparty.com ) supports syndicating YouTube Shorts and Instagram reels, but trying to syndicate longer form video just didn't make sense IMO

I created POSSE Party because I had similar concerns. Truncation and spacing are highly customizable. You can add a posse:post sidecar element containing JSON that formats exact pr…

OpenAI doesn't let you change your email address, either.

It would be funny if OpenAI turns for-profit, faceplants, and then finds new life (as Mozilla did) as a non-profit sharing its tools for free.

Funny, had it tell me the same thing twice yesterday and that was _with_ thinking + search enabled on the request (it apparently refused to carry out the search, which it does once…

Needed this to support automatically syndicating Instagram stories for my forthcoming POSSE Party app without breaking the bank on Heroku to remux & transcode videos server-side. W…

At what point in history have you owned a particular piece of hardware for use with a particular piece of never-to-be-updated software and installed a major OEM operating system re…

As somebody who picked up Backbone after Sammy and other earlier attempts, when React came along and took the world by storm, I more or less decided to nope out of JavaScript devel…

This is a great reminder and I need to start doing this. Bullet point plans aren’t enough for lots of vertical slice work unless it fits really neatly into well known buckets (e.g.…

In early September, Mike Judge's post challenging the productivity potential for coding agents by asking where the supposed AI shovelware is. It's been stuck in my craw for the pas…

Yeah, I went to Dogo Onsen last year and after the fact people told me it was inspiration for Spirited Away and I literally didn't believe them. I've been to countless riverside on…

I had some time to kill a couple years back and asked a Japanese friend where to go from Kagoshima, and she said I could take the ferry to Yakushima, so I walked to the dock, bough…