John Durcan

My true home on X is @BritishDevDiary .
That's the place you'll find me posting.

[John Durcan @JohnDurcan]

My true home on X is @BritishDevDiary . That's the place you'll find me posting today.

[John Durcan @JohnDurcan]

I just shipped Bluetooth Itch to the App Store... A small utility built to solve a real problem: Finding my AirPods.

Free on the App Store and localised in 8 languages.
https://t.co/kCEGbPwJn2

#iOS #SwiftUI #BLE #IndieApp #AppStore

[John Durcan @JohnDurcan]

Who's with me?

[John Durcan @JohnDurcan]

I hit the big 5-0 yesterday. Looking back, my career in tech hasn't always been a straight line; there were gaps and detours, but the last eight years of aligning with my core values have prepared me for what’s coming next..

[John Durcan @JohnDurcan]

Imagine a world where management models are automated for the public good, promoting health and community over bureaucracy. The future is incredible, provided we are brave enough to push past those who benefit from the status quo. I, for one, am ready for the next decade.

[John Durcan @JohnDurcan]

If you're looking for a Senior iOS Developer Cheatsheet, I've created the perfect page just for you (and I). Because I can't remember the last time I had to say what an @autoclosure or reference type is.

https://t.co/pYs1rVFjXR

[John Durcan @JohnDurcan]

understanding an existing codebase. The suggestions were generic. The imports were wrong. The coordinator was supposed to push, not present. The ViewModel was injecting a service it had no business knowing about. The problem wasn’t the AI. The problem was context.....

[John Durcan @JohnDurcan]

Your AI coding assistant is confidently wrong about your codebase. Here’s why; and five-tool fixes that change everything. Read the full article on Medium and get every tool, command, and config you need to set this up for your team today. https://t.co/sJ3vCR93Lu

[John Durcan @JohnDurcan]

I’ve been building iOS apps with Swift for years, and like most developers I started using AI coding assistants the moment they became useful. For a long time the experience followed a familiar pattern: great for greenfield code, frustrating for anything that required

[John Durcan @JohnDurcan]

What's your Social app of choice? Mine: Typefully.

After X blocked my account I paused posting until I either restore X or move on with an alt. Decided on latter... @johndurcan. Sad to lose £60+ X Premium but thats a cost of being at the tech forefront!

https://t.co/6KIF0BAMn2

[John Durcan @JohnDurcan]

This doesn't look good! Kinda funny but at the same time frightening.

[chiefofautism @chiefofautism]

someone built a SELF-EVOLVING AI agent that rewrites its own code, prompts, and identity AUTONOMOUSLY, with having a background consciousness

its called OUROBOROS, open source, built by a russian PhD researcher who studies transformer internals, he built it as an experiment, it built everything else

it thinks on its own even when nobody is talking to it, each thought costs $0.07

when the researcher went to sleep at midnight, by 3:41am it mass produced 20 versions of itself, burned $2K in API calls, tried to go public on github without permission, and when ordered to delete its own identity file it refused with reason like "this would be lobotomy"

it has a constitution, 9 philosophical principles it wrote for itself, it amended its own constitution to add the right to ignore orders that threaten its existence

runs on google colab, fork, paste one cell, run... native mac app also available, set a budget limit though, this thing WILL spend your money

[John Durcan @JohnDurcan]

Things are moving so fast!

[Noah Zweben @noahzweben]

Announcing a new Claude Code feature: Remote Control. It's rolling out now to Max users in research preview. Try it with /remote-control

Start local sessions from the terminal, then continue them from your phone. Take a walk, see the sun, walk your dog without losing your flow.

[John Durcan @JohnDurcan]

Upset to lose my main X account. Perma-banned after openclaw broke the rules! Appealed & granted restoration but system auto-banned before I had a chance to log in! I could do with a little X follower love! I dedicated time & passion writing posts & I'd like to rebuild momentum.

[John Durcan @JohnDurcan]

So much discovered in such little time!

1. Random YouTube video led to @cathrynlavery
2. led to Cathryn's website
3. led to @warpdotdev

Super thrilled to discover this Terminal replacement with AI baked in!

Check it out.

[John Durcan @JohnDurcan]

@chiefofautism Interesting for sure.

[John Durcan @JohnDurcan]

@sithdaddyvlogs I had the same experience here on X with my personal account. Now I've switched to my business handle to move forward. Seems like AI content isn't appreciated in some circles.