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@stephenradams.bsky.social

Freelance/Contract Web developer since the 90s, user of #Angular | #ReactNative | #Node

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Had a few hours of insomnia last night which is never good, but did come up with a new app idea which I’m excited about #indieapp

13.02.2026 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also the benefits of building in public

11.02.2026 07:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Bearly building in public
Bearly building in public

This is an interesting chat with some great points about how the industry as a whole needs to have more empathy youtu.be/Kyf5ocvsgDM

11.02.2026 07:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Bearly building in public
Bearly building in public

This is an interesting chat with some great points about how the industry as a whole needs to have more empathy youtu.be/Kyf5ocvsgDM

10.02.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I like working with AI tools it’s like pair programming

10.02.2026 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Knowing how apps can break or how the flow of screens should work this experience that a developer can bring to tools like Claude is important

10.02.2026 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You could say build me an app and it’ll do it you just need someone with the experience in knowing what issues to look for when building apps

10.02.2026 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve been using Claude for a couple of days and it is amazing what it can do, but you still need someone who knows how to drive the ship when working with it.

10.02.2026 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join the Kotlin Ecosystem Mentorship Program | The Kotlin Blog TL;DR: The Kotlin Foundation is launching a mentorship program that pairs experienced open-source maintainers with new Kotlin contributors to help them make their first meaningful contributions, wi

This looks interesting , i like these types of initiatives, Nide had something similar a few years ago blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026/...

09.02.2026 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What's so great about Rust? β€” Bitfield Consulting If you’ve heard about Rust and you’re wondering about the facts behind the hype, this is for you: no sales pitch, just a clear, point-by-point outline of why Rust is worth considering.

Great post on why Rust is a great language bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/why-rust

03.02.2026 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Up super early today, first thing yoga class then client work and this evening back to studying #Rust (the programming language not the metal)

29.01.2026 07:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Taylor Cramer Interview, Crubit Development Lead at Google [Rust Project Content @ RustConf 2025]
Taylor Cramer Interview, Crubit Development Lead at Google [Rust Project Content @ RustConf 2025]

Interesting interview with Taylor Cramer on Rust and the work in Google youtu.be/eUTsOWbOHeY

28.01.2026 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Listening to old episodes of the empoweredapps show about indie devs

26.01.2026 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Listening to old episodes of the empoweredapps show about indie devs

26.01.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New redesigns of sign screens, a few more screens need api plugging in and testing the app.

25.01.2026 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Working on #reactnative app today another step forward to the first release

25.01.2026 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Let’s go to Mars

21.01.2026 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Becoming an β€œiOS-lite” developer with Allie Ogden
Becoming an β€œiOS-lite” developer with Allie Ogden

Great interview on using #Kotlin multiplatform as a solo dev youtu.be/NdJ7sr2MCfk

21.01.2026 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Its rainy days like this I’m glad I’m a software developer rather than a gardener

21.01.2026 10:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The new Audi F1 car looks amazing

20.01.2026 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thinking about indie apps, and what to build them with. So far I’ve used React Native and Ionic, but as I’m learning Kotlin I’m going to look at Multiplatform for Kotlin

20.01.2026 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Twitter.new: The New Twitter Social Media Platform Twitter.new: The public square returns + AI verification to evolve the social media experience you can trust #BackWithYourEx

Looks like Twitter is coming back, but do we need another Twitter

www.twitter.new

09.12.2025 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Python and Pandas with Reuven Lerner I'm Reuven Lerner, and I teach Python and data science to companies around the world, and via my online store at https://LernerPython.com. I also publish two weekly newsletters β€” "Better Developers" (...

I like this YouTube channel, not that I’m heavily learning #python, but because he doesn’t need to have a video still pulling a silly face to convince you to watch his videos. Just the title, and what the video is about. No pulling shocked expressions or confused looks
m.youtube.com/@ReuvenLerne...

08.12.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a shame Fleet didn’t work out, I liked their approach, but Webstorm is so good it was hard to beat.

08.12.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Future of Fleet | The Fleet Blog TL;DR Fleet started as our attempt to explore a new generation of JetBrains IDEs, developed in parallel with those based on the IntelliJ Platform. Over time, we learned that having two general-purpose

"Starting December 22, 2025, Fleet will no longer be available for download. We are now building a new product focused on agentic development."
blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2025/1...

08.12.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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The build up to the World Cup draw is going to be longer than the whole tournament

05.12.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Started playing No man’s sky again. First time I couldn’t even get off the first planet. This time I’ve managed to, and landed on another planet that looks exactly the same

04.12.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/indi...

Great catalog of #indie apps

02.11.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Doomscrolling on LinkedIn it seems a lot of front end developer roles are now putting NextJS on top of a set of APIs and then the devops to deploy these apps.
Is this the standard for web development now?

28.10.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds interesting, what size monitor is that? I’m thinking about getting a new one,but not sure yet.

20.10.2025 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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