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).

Things are getting serious - just renewed my Apple Developer Program membership for a year. Looks like I might be shipping some apps 🚢

(Agentic) Development of my new personal micro-blogging system is going well. Have both a workable server and iOS app. Still need to add editing posts to the app, but things are going well. Biggest hurdle so far has been getting paragraphs and code blocks to render with a bottom margin in iOS 🤷

Check out https://github.com/theprivateer/moments and https://github.com/theprivateer/moments-ios for progress.

Using agentic/spec-driven development to rebuild a micro-blogging platform I dreamt up in 2017. So far, so good - but it has all been within my comfort zone of Laravel/Tailwind CSS. Now things should get interesting as a I attempt to build a companion app for iOS…

Slowly coming to the realisation that being loyal and staying for as long as I did at my previous employer - despite the red flags and gut instincts - has definitely stunted my career progression/prospects.

Perfect month.

The double-edged sword of being back on the job market - I need to start answering calls from unknown numbers that I would otherwise screen, on the off-chance it is a recruiter calling with an opportunity.

Added my resume to my website - time to start applying for jobs 😬.

Release day tradition: updating all my Apple devices (except for my work laptop) to the latest OS. Whilst I'm very tech-savvy, and am fully aware that the difference between a late-stage beta and the official .0 release is non-existent, for some reason I never upgrade during the beta period.