My podcast player side-project thingy is going well, got a web version going too, and it's all deployed. Apps are on Testflight. First time since 2018 of having my own stuff ready to go out there! React Native and Expo are magic.

I’d like to believe that if you’re building something you have thoughts and opinions on how the thing should look/function. Just prompting “build me a calorie tracker/notes app/music player” etc, without thinking about what makes this different and better makes no sense to me.

I understand why someone would use AI coding assistance, it’s great when you know what you want to build and know mostly what you’re doing. What I don’t get is trying to one-shot things. What’s the point? I can see the value in it as an LLM tech demo, but for a product? Nah.

RT @everton_dev: Only the OGs iOS developers knows what this is:

My heart Flutters thinking of all the UI I can Swiftly Compose with React Native.

Claude did all the boring stuff while I worked on the fun unique features I needed for my player. so awesome. took 4-5 hours in total.

I love how Claude Code helps me overcome "writer's block" on my side-projects. I wanted to write this podcast player since forever (it's highly customized to my usecase, sync server and device) but couldn't bring myself to do RSS parsing for the thousandth time in my career 🥱

React Native 0.80 is out, Check it out! first time for me on the release crew too.

hey @Google @GoogleAI got a little bug there.

Anyway not sure what I'm trying to say here other than - time flies and life takes you unexpected places maybe?.

I always self identified as the "iOS guy" and "startups guy" and then "citymapper guy", and now I'm not only a "Meta person", but a "React person" talk about reinventing yourself 😅 ⚛️.

I joined CM as an iOS engineer, ended up doing Android immediately after joining and somehow found myself supporting dozens of reports (during COVID!) It was a pretty wild ride. (Here's me in the launch video for our Apple Pay integration .

Here's a piece of confetti I saved from when we launched Citymapper Pass (.It was the first product at Citymapper I worked on 0 to 1. Took us 3 months I think? People liked it! It worked! It was EXCITING!

I just realized the other day, that I've been at Meta longer than I was at Citymapper - my first job in the UK, and the job I stayed in the longest in 20 years.

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I mean, Gnome icons are pretty easy, just throw some shapes and gradients on an Inkscape canvas, and you get a half decent result, but there's a ton of small details that could make it look better, I'm definitely missing.

If anyone's willing to help, I'll gladly take it :).

Tonight's project- THE ICON! this is not going to win any design awards, but kinda fits in with the rest of the system, which is what I'm going for 😅

everyone go get iPods, you can sync them now!.