Damian Markowski

Senior iOS Developer and Technical Leader, ex-@bookingcom. I post about building digital products and services and IT in general.

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It’s interesting how apps in the same category become so similar nowadays. It’s sometimes hard to remember what social media app you are scrolling because many of them are so similar in terms of feed UI (fonts, layout, sizes, spacing) and now the same happens to AI-driven IDEs, UI and UX is so similar in Codex and Cursor.

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My wish for #WWDC26: Apple please kill a project file, it’s the most primitive thing in Xcode, Android Studio doesn’t need anything like that.

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@cursor_ai copied Codex and introduced workspaces, so you can access multiple projects in the same window. That's what I was missing in Cursor.

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Did anyone get access to https://t.co/gC4eISnVea? Its launch was announced 3 months ago. cc @kris

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@afterxleep Doesn’t a Mac app partially contradict the why for the FlowDeck existence though? Doesn’t FlowDeck exist to escape using GUI for that stuff? Or was it only / mainly to escape Xcode GUI? To be super clear, I like FlowDeck, I recommend it to my friends and colleagues :)

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@afterxleep signed up!

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Guys, please review and try to understand the code generated by your favourite AI model 🙏 My friend was charged 3 times for the same thing on some app today.

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Christmas for iOS developers next month! 😍 #WWDC26

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If you
- open a TestFlight build and
- call ATTrackingManager. requestTrackingAuthorization(completionHandler:) on the app launch and
- added some “what to test” notes to the build

then unfortunately you won’t see a tracking permission alert because the TestFlight “what to test” screen prevents your app from showing that alert. It’s a bug from Apple. You may just remove “what to test” notes in App Store Connect and then you should see the alert.

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@GergelyOrosz @need_for_peed yeah exactly, I see more and more companies trying that one person team approach and it makes sense I think

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If
- you are struggling with some programming challenge(s) and
- AI is not helpful and
- you are not using Opus 4.7

switch to Opus 4.7 - it just fixed 2 web bugs that I was struggling with for 2 weeks (the first issue) and a few months (the second one). A default model from Cursor and Codex didn't help, Opus 4.7 worked at the first attempt in both cases.

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Being late to something is not always bad. A mathematician George Dantzig was late to a class and thanks to that he solved 2 unsolvable problems. https://t.co/o54SPuiTw9.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.

The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s most useful models.

Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.

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@natpanferova Happy birthday :)

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Impact of your work is more important than the amount of results you deliver. They mention that there are devs at Meta who write only a few lines of code a year but that saves the company millions of dollars. Writing or telling Codex / Claude / Cursor to write a whole feature is cool, that brings a lot of lines of code but arguably if you fix a failing CI/CD pipeline by changing only a few lines of a configuration has much more impact on your team, it re-enables them to build, validate and ship stuff.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

What does a "Coding Machine" mean at Meta? No better person to share than @michaelnovati, the first-ever "Coding Machine" at the company:

The full podcast:

YouTube: https://t.co/c3QNlXXCdV

Apple: https://t.co/mkdso8cY5x

Spotify: https://t.co/O9DWaLlKLc

Summary and transcript: https://t.co/WTAUvh5iBH

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Michael spent eight years at Meta, where he was recognized as the top code committer company-wide for several years. The “Coding Machine” archetype was modeled after Michael at the company.

In our conversation, we talk about what it was like working at Meta and dive into its engineering culture. Michael shares his journey of quickly climbing the ranks from intern to principal-level and gives level-headed advice on leveling up your career. Plus, we discuss his work at Formation, where he helps engineers grow and land roles at top tech companies.

Topics we touch on:

• An overview of software architect archetypes at Meta, including “the coding machine”

• Meta’s org structure, levels of engineers, and career trajectories

• The importance of maintaining a ‘brag list’ to showcase your achievements and impact

• Meta’s engineering culture and focus on building internal tools

• How beating Mark Zuckerberg in a game of Risk led to him accepting Michael’s friend request

• An inside look at Meta’s hiring process

• Tips for software engineers on the job market on how to do better in technical interviews

• And more!

Thanks to Michael for all of these interesting details (and stories!)

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@kemalekren 👏

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I think being a data driven organisation is more beneficial and important now than ever before. The market is changing so fast so you either measure and / or A/B test the key metrics and adapt your business / product or it will simply become irrelevant to the end users sooner or later.

[Filip Viktor Sobiecki @fjsobiecki]

Later today @michlimlim and I will show you how @tryflint and @get_viktor_com can make your life easier - and your ad performance waaay better!

See you in a few hours!

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@kemalekren 👏

[Damian Markowski @dammarkowski]

@kemalekren Agree….