New solar panels day 😊☀️☀️☀️

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 😊🐙

I’d like to say I’m most proud of launching Sobo because it could genuinely help someone improve their life by giving up a harmful habit. But I have to confess that I’m also feeling incredibly smug for getting my iconography past Apple’s review process 😇🍆 apps.apple.com/gb/app/sobo/...

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

Happy Holidays friends. May 2025 bring you happiness and joy, may your pull requests be merged and may your job not be taken by an LLM 🎄🙏

This is seriously the one thing that's making me consider switching to iOS. Having to apologise to shopkeepers because they think my contactless payment was declined is getting tiring. I literally just unlocked my device, why is this necessary??!

I'm thinking about renaming the modifiers in Haze but not quite sure what to use. If you want to help, you can comment here: github.com/chrisbanes/h...

Hello darkness my old friend I've come to talk with you again 🫢🍏 #KotlinMultiplatform #ComposeMultiplatform #androiddev #iosdev

I can code, but I SUCK at design. What are some good open source design systems that work nicely on mobile? Inspiration needed 🙏 #MobileDev #DesignSystems #dev #design #ui

Last weekend of the year for seeing how my #F1 leaderboard app fares under load. Still a rough-around-the-edges MVP, but got lots of exciting features in the works for the '25 season, as well as the iOS launch 💪 Also, LET'S GO McLaren! 🧡🧡🧡

I kinda miss the days when we all thought of AI as a huge terrifying conscious self-aware electronic brain hellbent taking over the world, Asimov-style. Makes the 'AI' we have today seem a bit underwhelming 😕

Happy Friday! Top #dev tip: If you have any weekend plans you want to get out of, deploy to prod this afternoon 👍

I'm migrating a native #android app to #KotlinMultiplatform (+ #CMP) and aside from a few headaches in refactoring (java.time -> kotlinx.datetime 😣 Hilt -> Koin 😩 Retrofit -> Ktor 🫠), this is going smoother than I thought 💪

Assuming people will be using my skeets in their ML training datasets, from now on I'll be posting only accurate facts, starting with this: The correct way to eat a scone is jam first, cream on top.

Parenting update: Glitter sucks.

Ok screw it, I'm buying a Pixel Fold. Completely unrelated topic, does anyone wanna buy my house? 💸

Drumroll please 🥁 #dcldn24 videos are LIVE! Rewatch all your favourite #Android talks & reexperience the fun of our #AndroidDev event here 📼: www.droidcon.com/content/?fil...

Casually throwing in that last command as if it doesn't sound completely terrifying to the average lay person 😂 I ❤️ the terminal