Alex Smith

Can everyone stop trying to submit slop to the app stores? These review times are excruciating

And again.

The wife will be thrilled

Gosh, my mum had one of these. I absolutely loved that piece of sh*t car

#strava needs a garden landscaping category. I’m wrecked.

LOL

Through every heatwave I get annoyed at my past self for not getting an air conditioning system fitted. Then I look at the prices again and think ‘ah well, I could just take a cold shower’

A setting where if you’re using Bluesky in dark mode, screenshots with white backgrounds are magically turned dark.

I hate to say this, but using AI as part of my day to day work has put the joy back into coding; I’m so much more productive, and I don’t have to waste hours writing tedious boilerplate

We deserve better: let's get it done on 7 May www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/we-deserve...

Working almost exclusively with #KMP for the last few months has been liberating. I now confidently describe myself more broadly as a ‘mobile engineer’, and my bugs live in more people’s pockets than ever before

What I didn’t expect while potty training our toddler was how many photos of poop my wife and I would send each other, nor how excited we get every time we receive one 💩❤️

#DryJanuary is in full swing, with #alcohol the #1 habit being tracked this month. Wishing good luck to all those giving it a shot!! Sobo for iOS is completely free to download with no subscriptions or purchase necessary. Because there should be no barriers to quitting. Download: apple.co/3RWQMVP

Nothing seems to eat up my Claude Code tokens more than unit testing with Kotlin coroutines and StateFlows 😞

LETS GO #JAX 🐆🐆🐆

First Christmas for my youngest, and the first one where my toddler understands the concept of it all. Probably the best Christmas ever ❤️ Merry Christmas all!!

Why does nobody on this train want to join my hotspot??

No surprise: new analysis shows that heat pumps can deliver excellent performance even in older buildings with no meaningful correlation between building age & heat pump efficiency. This is in line with my own experience of having a heat pump in a 1880 Victorian home with only modest insulation.

The best thing about being a mobile app developer is that your code could be sitting in the pockets of millions of people around the world. Bugs and all.

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Trying to enjoy my evening but can’t stop thinking about how many ways McLaren could hand the championship to Max tomorrow 🫣 Come on guys let’s finish this 🧡🧡🧡

On Seeking New Roles: My Personal Guiding Principles

Watching the budget announcement today, it’s maddening how shambolic UK parliament is - heckling, shouting, spiteful personal attacks - on both sides. I get that it’s probably always been this way but, aren’t they supposed to be adults?

New job, and I’ve never felt so motivated. I have the freedom to work remotely, to balance my time with my parental responsibilities… I’m treated like an adult. In return, I’ve already closed 3 issues including a high severity incident, in just my first week. #RTO policies are BS

New job day 😊🐙

If you've got a spare minute today, would massively appreciate some support to help push this towards the top! ❤️🚀 #IndieMaker #BuildInPublic #iosdev

This Miami sprint race has been absolute carnage!! #f1 #formula1 #MiamiGP

I’ve found sleep to be one of the most important things in life, and I realised how much mine was being interrupted after drinking alcohol - so I decided to quit. Wanted to track my sobriety with #ios widgets, so thought I’d build some! apps.apple.com/us/app/sobo/... #sober #BuildInPublic

I thought I was having a good hair day today but the girl at the coffee shop just asked me if it’s windy outside 💀

Yay

I finally caved and got an iPhone. My passion for #AndroidDev is as strong as ever (and my career depends on it 🙈), but I’m loving #iOS! It’s also great to experience my #KMP projects on a real device, I think it’s important to know both platforms deeply to get the best out of cross-platform #dev

Just discovered police auctions are a thing. Mothers' day is SORTED 😎

Seriously, #SelfHosted is the way to go when you're starting a new personal project. Why lock yourself into pricey cloud hosting when your network traffic is minimal? Love to watch my #RasPi faultlessly handle my growing user base, and it has cost me almost nothing ❤️ #BuildInPublic

The hype for the #F1 season opener is REAL! Are you ready?? If you want to enhance your experience with real-time leaderboards and more, ad-free, subscription-free, COMPLETELY FREE, you know where to go: Download on iOS and Android: tosto.re/clutched

I'm gonna need someone to tell me why we need to bring back woolly mammoths... Like, is it so starving kids can eat them? Y'know, the kids that could otherwise be helped with all that mammoth money 🤔

#LewisHamilton looking strong in that #Ferrari in Sakhir right now ❤️💪 Live updates available right now on #clutched app Download on iOS & Android! tosto.re/clutched #F1 #F1Testing 🏎️

I spent a lot of time finessing adaptive layouts with edge-to-edge support on both #ios and #android, while also using custom non-material design elements, such as navigation. Some of the APIs are hard to wield, but got there eventually. Let me know what you think! #KMP #CMP #KotlinMultiplatform

I've learned it's hard to stop chasing perfection and instead just get something out there. It's still a bit rough around the edges but, it's time to share it. Done > Perfect. Check out my app, available on Android and iOS! tosto.re/clutched #BuildInPublic #KotlinMultiplatform #CMP

Commanders v Bills would have made for a great superbowl

Approved on the first try! It has been a source of joy converting my Android app to #KotlinMultiplatform with #Compose 💪 Now to get some much needed improvements done before the 2025 season starts 🏎️ #BuildInPublic #KMP #CMP #ios #android

Seen in London today 😂 #channel4

Do you know what "Time to take action" (or, accessibility timeout) is, and how to support it in your Android app? In this blog post, I'll explain what it is and how you can make your users' lives better by respecting this accessibility setting's value: eevis.codes/blog/2024-12...

Happy Hump Day, to those who observe