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Co-Founder and Programmer, @firigames. Working on @pocketquest and #phoenix2. Download Phoenix 2 from the App Store, it's great! :)

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Our Phoenix 2 App Clip is mentioned in the "What's new in App Clips" session in #WWDC21 🥰 https://t.co/or7cMyEVHk

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And don’t get me started on its tendency to write a ton of helper methods.

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It’s surprising how hard it is to get Codex to write good comments.

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Baby Phoenix loves the new sounds in the latest Phoenix 2 8.1 update! 🔊🔥

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Forcing iOS 26 instead of releasing the iOS iOS 28.7.3 for all users is not great @apple. Maybe next time make an iOS version that people want to upgrade to.

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This came a long way 😅

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Working on converting the entire Phoenix 2 interface from UIKit to our new in-engine UI framework. 🥵 WIP screenshot, not finished!

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@HaraldDoornbos Tekst die je leest neem je toch ook niet direct voor waar aan? Alleen dat gaat straks ook voor beeld op. Zien is geloven is er niet meer bij..

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So why is Apple not making a TV set?

[Tom's Hardware @tomshardware]

LG TV users baffled by unremovable Microsoft Copilot installation — surprise forced update shows app pinned to the home screen https://t.co/312dK6Lq44

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Best Apple news in ages 😊 Thank you Mark Zuckerberg! 🙏

[MacRumors.com @MacRumors]

Apple UI Design Chief Alan Dye Leaving for Meta https://t.co/huAXusju13

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Seems @googlecloud killed Cloud Trace for App Engine. Cool, another great feature that just worked out of the box removed.

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It would be really nice for large refactors if Agents would have cut & paste actions. Right now it feels like they are essentially typing every over to another file, making mistakes along the way. Very noticeable with string identifiers.

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@lexhoogduin Je laatste quote tweets zijn wel behoorlijke China influencers. Lees maar eens wat meer van de tijdlijn van die types.

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Wow not bundling the metal toolchain with Xcode 26 might save some download time and space, but is surely very annoying to have to execute another command to get a workspace up and running. Even Xcode cloud cannot get this right, as building shaders there does not work anymore.

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I let Claude rewrite my clangd-query tool from Typescript to Go. A single compiled binary is just so much easier to use and distribute. Never programmed anything in Go, but so easy to start using a new language with Claude :)

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

The failure of Europe isn't the current expensive divorce deal with the US.

The failure is not being able to create multiple massive companies in over a quarter of a century.

We missed most of the tech wave. Why?
Because with the Internet as distribution channel every advantage / disadvantage compounds.

Our largest competitors are unified blocks that have scale to compound. Larger pools of investors, larger pools of customers, larger VC funds. Scale matters for startups and hence tech-innovation.

In this game a separated Europe isn't a Player, it's a playground.

This isn't a German, Slovenian, Polish, etc problem. This is a European problem and needs European solutions.

We can pretend as long as we want and ignore the problem. We can keep some status quo companies and processes alive for another 10-20 years by closing our eyes. But it will ultimately come to the same decision – just with worse options.

Europe's startup need European scale to win.

We either 1) federalizes, 2) become really good with creating pan-European solutions (like https://t.co/S047SoqsVU), 3) complete isolates (China meets Tarifs), or 4) see Europe infight, fragment, and fade away.

I hope for one of the first two.

[EU–INC @euinc_petition]

The EU has a once-in-a-generation chance to deliver on a bold new measure with the potential to vastly improve life for scores of startup founders, operators and investors.

But Europe risks Europe-ing itself out of the opportunity.

https://t.co/a6MyrHoEAw

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Using Claude Code to create a classic Google App Engine request log viewer, back when logs were still usable. And it just works 🤯🤯🤯

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"What would John Carmack do?" is just a ridiculous good hack for Claude Code 😂 No more uber-overengineered solutions.

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And now added a tap action so Claude can navigate the UI. Awesome! 🤩

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I made a tool for our game engine so that Claude Code can make screenshots of our game scenes and look at them 🤩 Amazing 🤯

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@warpling Anti fingerprinting logic.