iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 07/10/2025

After iterating... you end up with a new app at your finger prints. What a time to be alive ;)

Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 07/10/2025

Step 3: Coded by Jules Finally, it’s time to build. I setup a repo that contains my spec as a README, and the screens that I want to build which have been downloaded from Stitch.

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 07/10/2025

Step 1: Starting with the Spec Captures what you are looking to build: it’s design and implementation. Sometimes I work with an AI to go deep on the definition up front, and other times I stay shallower and flush out the spec as I add more features.

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 05/10/2025

Not a bad start to a Sunday… with the footy on TV and using Jules to build an iOS app that uses it’s new API… designed by Stitch. stitch.withgoogle.com/projects/272...

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 25/05/2025

Which group will be the AI and which the humans?

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 20/05/2025

Gemini Diffusion! I love a good zig and zag. We used to be in a world where image generation used diffusion techniques (from noise), and text used autoregresion (next token). ChatGPT added 4o image generation that went the other way and used autoregression …

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 07/05/2025

% parade list openai I've been enjoying building simple tools writing a spec and having them generated. `parade` uses Ink and Vercel's AI SDK to let me explore model names from various providers (because I am using the openai:gpt-4o type URI format in other tools). github.com/dalmaer/parade

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 02/12/2024

I love being able to create micro apps. I hosted a white elephant party & instead of doing the typical thing and have people pull a number out of a hat, I used Bolt and whipped up a lil app which I projected on the TV in our room and randomized the next person to pick a gift! bolt.new/~/sb1-hjoqtk

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 26/11/2024

/dev/agents is a new dream team to build an “OS for AI agents”.

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 04/11/2024

Hmm, not sure I’m feeling *intense* coding, this morning …

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 31/10/2024

I want to be @erikmeijer when I grow up docs.google.com/presentation...

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 24/10/2024

I asked Claude to browse the brand new @augmentcode.bsky.social website that launched today that shows everyone information about our growing product surface. It shared the top 5 reasons why it's the best coding assistant: 🧵

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 22/10/2024

New game: create a text group which includes one friend with Android to see if anyone isn’t on iOS 8 yet.

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 19/10/2024

“Phfff that LLM is just a junior engineer.” Even if true, it represents “a junior engineer” who has gone breadth first into the vaste majority of software topics! That’s amazing! I may be deep in a tiny subset of languages, libraries and platforms.

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 13/06/2023

Someone drove over our mailbox. We have a new one and I’m waiting for it to set. The postal worker came and didn’t deliver our mail because “the mailbox was too low”. It’s roughly the same height in its temp arrangement but… huh!

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 23/05/2023

They know you can update the app right?

HBO Max app called to download the Max app

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 15/05/2023

★ Building a modern design system in layers ★ I am seeing a new pattern in design systems where the right layering unlocks many more developers and sets you up for a system that can evolve over the long time. blog.almaer.com/building-a-modern-d…

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 13/05/2023

When I saw some of the photos, with high quality, it made me hope that the mystery of grainy past photos and black and white majesty will be gone and instead folks will see it for the cosplay that it is.

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 10/05/2023

I/O coming in hot with characters and cards! Huh!

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 09/05/2023

Instead of speed as 1.5x etc, I kinda want “X words per minute”.

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 09/05/2023

Son: “are you interviewing right away?!?” Me: “no! It’s my choir performance!”

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 05/05/2023

My OCD requires me to change the name of this to something that maps to the sheet.

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 05/05/2023

While it does this, it doesn’t show you the voicemail so you are unable to listen to it. 🤦‍♂️

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 05/05/2023

Ok, that’s kinda funny.

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 03/05/2023

A closet page load is when the page loads so fast the skeletons are kept hidden! postgres-remix.vercel.app

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 02/05/2023

All in all a very pleasant experience, and maybe could fill that last slot one day...

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 27/04/2023

But but but my SSO is via Google. And when I try the Google option it… doesn’t work. #postelslaw

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 24/04/2023

What does this look like for code? “Make my code melodic” is coming! ;)

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 24/04/2023

I’m not even close to being hipster enough for this place. #austin #soco

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 13/04/2023

I love a lil serendipity, for example, if a site has a ChatGPT Plugin, let me know so I can poke at it (and maybe install it). So, welcome another lil web extension: github.com/dalmaer/chatgpt-plugin-d… #openai #chatgpt #plugin #webextension

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Dion Almaer @almaer.com · 12/04/2023

What’s with all of the spoilers this week?

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