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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 11/10/2026

Yup I ask my agents now to draw architecture diagrams and pseudo code. I might ask it to spike something first as well to understand the hard parts but day to day I’m not reading the nuts and bolts.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 11/10/2026

If I were hiring today, I’d ask how you scale yourself with agents. By 2027, defining work, delegating it and checking the results will matter more than recalling framework trivia. Should interviews test the engineer alone or the engineer with their agents?

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 18/09/2026

You can ask it three different types of questions: Single option, scale, boolean What type of ugly am I? Butt ugly How ugly am I? 99% Am I ugly? Yes

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 18/09/2026

The best mental model I have for Jev right now: I could extract attributes from an image of my face, and it would deterministically tell me how ugly I am using structured data.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 11/09/2026

As the cost of writing code approaches zero, platform fidelity becomes a much bigger differentiator. Maybe "write once, run everywhere" just isn't as valuable as it used to be.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 11/09/2026

Liquid Glass is a good example. Apple changed the look and feel of iOS over a year ago but Flutter developers have to wait for the framework to catch up. I imagine we will be looking at similar timelines for iPhone Duo support.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 11/09/2026

If implementing the same feature twice is no longer the expensive part, why accept the compromises of a cross-platform abstraction?

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 11/09/2026

The case for Flutter and React Native feels less obvious to me than it used to. Historically, the big win was avoiding duplicate implementation across iOS and Android. But code is becoming dramatically cheaper to write with AI.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 03/09/2026

Fable 5.1 is incredible for maintaining design systems. I've been on teams that built and deployed design systems used across many apps. That work collectively probably took thousands of developer hours. Today I had Fable build a complete Storybook and component library with zero regressions.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 03/09/2026

Some of my agent skills were over a year old, written for models I no longer use. When models change, your skills need retesting too. I tested them with Promptfoo and Warps Skill Doctor.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 30/08/2026

One of the easiest ways to spot an AI-generated video is to just mute it. Without the audio distracting you, the unnatural mouth movements, awkward posture and strange facial expressions become obvious.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 26/08/2026

You know when you have an idea and you know it’s a good idea. I have that right now. I can feel it in my bones.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 13/08/2026

Boomers will say it’s “just summer” and that it was worse during the 1976 heatwave. But imagine a once-in-a-century heatwave like 1976 happening again, only this time on top of our much hotter summer baseline. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

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Homes alight as fires rage across the West Midlands

Firefighters are tackling blazes in Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and the West Midlands.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 26/07/2026

My complaint was never the material, it’s the construction technique. I prefer declarative construction over weaving sticks together imperatively.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 26/07/2026

If Opus 6 releases same day as GTA6. What’s your game plan

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 25/07/2026

Anytime someone mentions web components I think back to that time I tried to build a house out of twigs

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 23/06/2026

Indie dev in the UK parent of 2. I have a few apps but my two latest with 2 more on the way. Baby sleep tracking app called wake wise apps.apple.com/gb/app/baby-... An app to help wake you up earlier called morning club apps.apple.com/gb/app/morni...

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Baby Sleep Tracker Wake Wise App - App Store

Download Baby Sleep Tracker Wake Wise by Adam Bulmer on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like Baby Sleep Tracker…

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 20/06/2026

I’ve been building on iOS with an App Intents-first architecture for a while. It’s not well documented and articles advocate patterns like MVVM or VIPER. With Apple’s latest Siri integrations, everything has just clicked into place. Best practices are useful, but first principles win always.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 30/05/2026

I never use plan mode with Codex. Plan mode exists in Claude because it’s over-eager and jumps straight to implementation too quickly. Codex actually takes the time to understand the codebase first and makes holistic changes based on its findings.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 20/05/2026

If you wondered… X is still full of plebs and apparently I’m a bad actor. I mean I never did drama but come on… I don’t need to be called out on it.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 15/05/2026

No AI model drop will beat evanescence releasing a song in 2026. youtu.be/ak4Ti54Y6rY?...

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Evanescence – Who Will You Follow (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Evanescence

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 15/05/2026

Claude Design is cool but GPT Image Gen 2 is even better. My workflow 1. Sign up to Mobbin 2. Use the Mobbin MCP in Codex and prompt what you’re building 3. Ask Codex to use the official GPT Image Gen skill to generate 4 UI mockups 4. Pick the best design and feed it back into Codex to build

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 11/05/2026

I’ve got Codex /goal on my Raspberry Pi executed from my iPhone triaging 250 backlog items refining them to create a cohesive story on how to deliver my app from 0 to 1. It’s like having a product owner in my pocket and I’m the VP of Product 😵‍💫🤩

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 13/04/2026

Agents, a Raspberry Pi, tailscale, tmux and a smartphone with a MOSH client is all you need to ship now.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 19/03/2026

Let the business define the goals for the quarter “release product X”, “increase Y” and let the teams figure out how to achieve that but not 6 months in advance. Plan, ideate, implement should take no longer than 2 weeks. Allows teams to learn and pivot when appropriate.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 19/03/2026

We should be minimising the time between ideation and having something in front of the customer. Planning in quarterly or halves contradicts this premise.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 19/03/2026

What matters is customer outcomes. Too much energy spent on how. Sprint Planning, Retros, Cycle Time, velocity, number of weeks per sprints etc. All bollocks. The number of hours I’ve spent in quarterly/ halve planning for the plan to be derailed 2 weeks in is staggering. It’s all busy work.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 10/03/2026

I can’t imagine using AI to write code without TDD. Tests aren’t just safety nets anymore. They are the steering wheel on the race car.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 27/02/2026

Happy Pokemon day. 2026 Christmas Day will be my personal 30th Pokemon day. I remember receiving the game from my grandad and having no idea what it was and spending weeks trying to defeat Brock because I only had Charmander on my team 😂

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 21/02/2026

I caught Mewtwo with a standard Pokeball as a kid. That kind of dedication has followed me into adulthood and everything I do 😏

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 20/02/2026

pick 👏 the 👏 right 👏 tool 👏 for 👏 the 👏 right 👏 job. Say it together now.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 16/02/2026

The human touch will be the thing that drives downloads on the AppStore. I’ve seen a bunch of competitor apps appear recently and they all look the same. What makes your app stand out amongst the vibe coded slop will be the difference between success and failure.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 01/02/2026

I’ve been using AI for things I consider myself an expert at and using time saved to level up other skills using my brain like SEO, Graphic design and marketing.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 01/02/2026

0 to 1 is like stepping outside and running a 10k marathon after spending 10 years as a coach potato. 1 to 2 is like you’ve been training for a 10k marathon for 12 months, step outside and break your ankle.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 25/01/2026

When your TV remote has too many buttons, you can’t change the channel. There’s a lesson in that.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 24/01/2026

Goodbye loyal customer 🫡

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 21/01/2026

Agent Skill directories that let you install arbitrary skills and scripts, That's an attack vector waiting to be exploited surely?

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 17/01/2026

MRR is a funny metric. I’ve been measuring my apps success in bills paid. My energy bill is now paid by my apps every month 😆 Next goal: the mortgage.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 09/01/2026

I created a new Claude Code skill this evening for iOS App Store market research. Previously this was a custom MCP server that I had to spin up locally on my machine. SKILL.md files don't just have to be coding conventions and how-tos. They can allow your agents to call third parties.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 09/01/2026

Claude Long Term Memory spec-kit, bmad, task-master, beads, beans. It doesn't matter which one you pick. They all do the same thing Just use one and get familiar with it - don't get stuck in that loop of switching tools every week because someone on Bluesky recommended it.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 30/12/2025

AI has turned my iPhone into a dev workstation. A user reported a bug for an app I’ve built. I shared a screenshot + high-level architecture via Codex on iOS. It found the issue, fixed it, and deployed - entirely from my phone. 12 months ago I was just doomscrolling and reading memes 😂

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 28/12/2025

After watching a video Ali Abdaal created on the “GPS Method” I created a Claude skill to help me set my 2026 goals. Works a treat 👌 and here is a top tip; you can zip skills up and upload them to Claude web. github.com/mintuz/claud...

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claude-plugins/plugins/life/skills at main · mintuz/claude-plugins

My collection of Claude Code Agents & Skills for web and iOS Development - mintuz/claude-plugins

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 27/12/2025

LLMs, autonomous agents, and “vibe coding” reward system thinkers. Models think locally. Slop happens when humans do too. Your value is the bigger picture and to guide them along the path.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 27/12/2025

My 2026 Indie dev goals - Reach £1000 MRR - Release a new unannounced app I’ve been building for the last month. - Start posting on TikTok behind the scenes of my indie app development process.

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 24/12/2025

Have we not always been spec-driven development 🤔

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Adam Bulmer 🦀 @mintuz.com · 23/12/2025

My favourite 2025 app is “How We Feel” fantastic app for mental health, beautifully designed and completely free. No subscription required. A rarity in 2025 howwefeel.org/get

howwefeel.org

Download the How We Feel app

The How We Feel Project is a non-profit working to help everyone better understand their own emotions.

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