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.

46 years old.

The last year where I’m genuinely in my ‘mid-forties’ before the not-so-long downhill to 50.

Identifying duplicate values in a MySQL database:

SELECT email, COUNT(email)
FROM users
GROUP BY email
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1;

(pretty simple but I always forget)