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I’ve played around a lot with Locally AI, an app for running local models on your phone.

I’ve had a bug in Plinky since launch that I hadn’t been able to fix until a few weeks ago.

Did you know that GPT-5.5 is better than GPT-5.4?

A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible.

I was refactoring Plinky’s deeplink routing layer, and the process led to an unbelievable computing experience.

Much of the tech world is gushing about the accidental leak of Claude Code’s source code yesterday, but for different reasons than I find it interesting.

If you want the 7 word version of this blog post it’s You are responsible for what you ship.

I’ve just released Recap 2.0 — my open source library for creating beautiful What’s New screens from markdown.

I think Twitter is as guilty of hiring too fast as Google and most of these other companies, the problem of bloat is just way bigger at Google and has been for over a decade now.

There’s an adage that says using AI is like having an intern at your disposal.

This weekend there was once again a debate about the future of programming, stemming from this comment by a longtime developer Steven Troughton-Smith.

This post shows you how to support markdown search for your blog, making it token-efficient to search through your content.

Generative Engine Optimization — also called AI SEO, AEO, GEO, or LLMO — is the equivalent of SEO for AI search.

A few weeks ago I read an essay titled AI Agents Are Starting To Eat SaaS.

There are once again rumors of another Siri revamp — something I’m strongly in favor of.

I feel like we don’t talk enough about how five years ago the only people doing interesting things with “AI” were researchers and big tech employees optimizing algorithms, and now everybody has powerful AI systems available to them on demand via an API or…

For the last year I’ve been teaching people in Pursuit’s AI-Native.

Since the release of Claude Code, software developers have been living in the future.

After careful evaluation, we determined that Google’s technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and we’re excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for our users. — Apple picks Google’s Gemini to run AI-…

I’ve mostly been in the camp of AI is cool and great for big companies but we’re a way’s away from people losing jobs because of AI.

Build.ms exists to make technology accessible to everyone.

It’s a Christmas surprise!

Every programmer has their favorite language.

Did you know Claude Code has a completely customizable status line?

I once had a girlfriend who loved the game Scribblenauts, and I loved watching her play it on her Nintendo DS.

The short version of this post is that: I’m publicly launching the AI Workshops I’ve been running since April.

Note: Since I wrote this blog post ChatGPT has also adopted the Skills paradigm.

When I tell people how great ChatGPT is (or substitute your favorite AI tool like Claude), the question I hear most often is: “But how do you actually use it?”

When it comes to creative work, personal growth is rarely a straight path.

I joined Leo Dion on the Empower Apps podcast to discuss my journey building Plinky, a link-saving app that I created to solve my own organizational needs.

People are often disappointed when they use a Large Language Model (LLM) like ChatGPT or Claude for the first time.

Note: When I left Twitter to become an indie developer I committed to helping others with my work as much as I could.

Note: When I left Twitter to become an indie developer I committed to helping others with my work as much as I could.

Note: When I left Twitter to become an indie developer I committed to helping others with my work as much as I could.

I was honored to have Plinky featured in Indie App Spotlight Issue 20.

I joined Peter Witham on the Compile Swift podcast to share the story of Plinky being featured on the App Store.

The post below was written by me, originally featured on the Plinky blog.

The Turing test is dead, and we killed it.

I joined Rizel Scarlett and Christina Warren of GitHub on GitHub’s Open Source Friday Twitter Space.

I’ve been working on Boutique and Bodega for much of the last three months, officially celebrating the launch of Boutique and Bodega v2 today.

This Twitter thread offers a concise high level 13-tweet summary of this post’s announcements, but you miss out on a lot of important detail that I highly recommend reading if you plan to start using the libraries I’ve developed and introduce in this post,

Whether you’re starting your design journey or if you’ve been doing design for years, nothing’s more important than the fundamentals.

Is coding a science or an art?

The work of writing maintainable code is an ongoing endeavor and some of my favorite problems to solve are ones that build maintainable systems.

GraphQL has been on my list of technologies to learn for a few months now, and last week I came across Majid Jabrayilov’s post, feeling pretty excited to tackle the subject.

I recorded an episode of the Empower Apps podcast, where Leo Dion and I discussed a wide range of topics.

I’ve been thinking about privacy lately.

If you haven’t checked out Part I, I recommend reading it because if you don’t, none of writing below will make sense!

As iOS developers, a lot of our work involves taking models from a server, and transforming them to be displayed on an iPhone or iPad.

I recorded an episode of @learnswift_fm with Steven Sherry a couple weeks back.