Another day, another rejection due to "lack of experience" - for a job that I could do (and have done) with my eyes closed. I've been about this for a while and finally decided to put it into words: https://philstephens.com/blog/the-title-trap-what-a-decade-of-wrong-job-titles-taught-me-about-career-progression

Riffing on my personal CMS to make it more portable and reusable for other sites, including adding a static site generator because “why not?”.

Moved the codebase for my personal website (custom CMS) into Claude Code ready for some new feature development.

TIL as an Australian developer you need to have an ABN and be registered for GST before you can sell apps on the App Store. Guess it will be a little bit longer before I release my first app…

iOS project is almost ready to release - need a quick single page marketing website so taking Stitch for a spin to see what it can come up with.

Not a lot, it seems.

iOS project is almost ready to release - need a quick single page marketing website so taking Stitch for a spin to see what it can come up with.

Finally got iCloud sharing working for my new app. The experience of managing shares leaves a lot to be desired, but once everything is hooked up it all works flawlessly.

Launching this app just got a whole lot closer.

I wrote a short post about using AI to help build this personal micro-blogging platform: https://philstephens.com/blog/rebuilding-my-micro-blog-with-ai-agents

Just got Claude Cowork to upload my entire Instagram history - 700+ posts - to this micro-blog. Pointed it at the export from Instagram and the OpenAPI spec for this site and away it went.

It generated a Python script to do the job - will probably add it to the repo for this site.

Really struggling to get iCloud sharing working on this new SwiftUI app I’m working on (alongside my mates Claude and Codex). Everything in the code looks right according to Apple’s developer docs, and everything is configured correctly in CloudKit console, but the app just isn’t receiving any CKShare.Metadata through any ingress point. With several days and countless tokens burned my AI teammates are both stumped, both recommending I raise a support issue with Apple 😂.

Seriously considering rolling my own collaboration mechanism if I can’t figure this out soon (it would make integrating an Android build a lot easier down the line if I did).