Running Gemma 4 e4b on my mac mini is pretty cool.

Is there a convenient way to do planning on frontier models and hand off to Gemma for execution?

Yeah, I think tone and frequency is important especially when posting as an individual.

I'm also trying to identify areas and communities to post to beyond Reddit/X/Tiktok

Any recommdations or do's/don'ts that you've encountered so far?

Any recommendations on what to use to create gorgeous mockups for landing pages, marketing materials etc?

Think I've got the first iteration of the UI down.

Had a lot of fun getting there with the use of several specialist agents.

These will highlight the Journaling factor of the app, driving anticipation and nostalgia alongside discovery

In the process of doing the UI and I've added a couple of new features. I've replaced the 'nearby' carousel (it was always a placeholder) with a hero card for your next event and I've added hints to attended events either showing the user that they've rated/added media or encouraging them to do so.

First iteration of my onboarding flow is complete. Pretty straightforward at the moment and I wanted to keep it quick and easy whilst requesting the permissions that will really let the app shine for the user.

I will probably iterate on it to some degree but any thoughts and feedback are welcome!

Getting to grips with design patterns and building ai agents for the day job is pretty interesting!

I hadn't! But a quick a Google shows I probably should've haha.

One for a future refactoring and blog post.

Thanks for the heads up! Every day is a learning day.

I've been looking for some long form content as everyone I'm subscribed to seems to have gone quiet over the last couple of years. Will check out Majuular!

Wonderful! I have some ideas for this 💡

A blog post on React Native front end optimisation. Enjoy!

You're definitely right, it is best. But with severe time constraints on a hobby project I'm aiming to employ both and use AI to speed up the process rather than churning out slop content.

Finally got around to deleting my X account after leaving it dormant for a couple of years. Feels good.

Just started my playthrough of Resi 0 to 8 so this is great timing and a great watch

I've added a date scrubber to Stubbit to quickly scroll back through the years and months. Perfect for those old enough to always be standing at the back with a pint now 👴

Am I awful for looking towards AI agents to help with app marketing?

I'm sure some will look down on it but as long as it's human managed surely it's just a case of using the tools available to us.

Why am I finding it so difficult to simply post a gif of an ios simulator screen recording here?

Having to go thru all sorts of resizing shenanigans and fighting Adobe to let me download the results 😮‍💨

Amazon Prime is better for films than Netflix

A Blog post on choosing the right method of Social Sign-in

Staging Tables vs Unified DB schema

A look at the architectural trade-offs between ETL and ELT-style data integration when building a real-time Gig tracking app. The Challenge: Many Sources, One Truth In order to make Stubbit as comprehensive as possible I tried to get as many external data…

Been using Google's AntiGravity for a bit but I'm finding I'm losing oversight and control of my codebase with full on Agentic vibe coding. Switching back to using Gemini is the right balance for me at the moment.

Why I Chose Supabase (SQL) over Firebase (NoSQL)

When it came to choosing the backend for Stubbit I knew i wanted to use a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) rather than building everything from scratch myself as it would be far easier and quicker and would come with all of the additional features such…

Had some spare time this morning and took @expo.dev SDK54's new native tabs in expo-router for a spin.

The API feels great. Native tabs are a big piece of the puzzle- and now with native, JS, and custom tabs, it’s easier than ever to match any app’s design language 🚀

ugh, major setback/pain in the arse. Somehow realise i didn't include genres for my artists (only events) and now i have to backfill them but with an api call limit of 1000 a day and 100k+ artists 😫

Getting round to the front end whilst data cleansing finishes up.
Got the home screen flatlists with Tanstack infinite scroll going, the My Events screen, basic search functionality and now working on the Add Event modal.

Bare bones are coming together 🚀

I found getting to grips with Tamagui too much of a faff and a bunch of issues getting set up with Expo SDK 53 so switched over to Gluestack-ui.

I just want some snazzy pre-made components damn it