Stephen Adams

Saw a contract role for a Lead Java developer offer £310 a day inside IR35, wow the UK contractor market is at a low

I’ve made React Native apps, they’re great, but I want to try something new and build on my #Kotlin knowledge

Decided to go with #kmp for a couple of reasons, first it’s native, second it’s a new language and approach for me

Spent a few hours on Sunday looking at both #kmp and #reactnative for my app

Back at the coding factory today, setting up the bare bones of my app run #kotlin #multiplatform #indieapp #indiedev

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

Also the benefits of 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

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

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

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

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

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.

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/...

What's so great about Rust? — 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

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

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

Listening to old episodes of the empoweredapps show about indie devs

Listening to old episodes of the empoweredapps show about indie devs

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

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

Let’s go to Mars

Becoming an “iOS-lite” developer with Allie Ogden

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

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Its rainy days like this I’m glad I’m a software developer rather than a gardener

The new Audi F1 car looks amazing

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

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

www.twitter.new

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 — "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...

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

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...