Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 23/09/2026We will not have AGI in my lifetime.. maybe ever. The human brain is undefeated 360
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 23/09/2026With the release of opus 5.5 today I am more convinced then ever that all our jobs are safe. I may change my mind in a few weeks. I will not be taking questions at this time. 010
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 20/09/2026I might need to refactor my timeline view to use UIKit. The @tapbots.com Ivory app (for Mastodon) is so good and I can’t help but think a lot of that is because of UIKit. 131
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 17/09/2026Jaywalking in NYC was so much easier before people rode their E-bikes going the wrong way. 020
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 08/09/2026I’m finally watching some of this year’s WWDC videos and it’s making me angry that LLMs exist. Coding in swift is so much fun. 391
Reposted by Tom RademakerEffem @effem.xyz · 07/09/2026If you like listening to podcasts and syncing everything to your AT Proto PDS then come beta test Effem - testflight.apple.com/join/nst2Dd2Btestflight.apple.comTestFlight - AppleUsing TestFlight is a great way to help developers test beta versions of their apps. 004
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 03/09/2026What would you do if you were the only person on the planet with access to an LLM? 130
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 31/08/2026AGI is probably impossible. I will not be taking questions at this time. 100
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 26/08/2026Why do I have such an urge to build an iPad app? Does anyone even use an iPad anymore? 110
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 04/08/2026True genius level intelligence is very rare. LLMs are just like really really good parrots. 120
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 04/08/2026anyone like iOS game betas? testflight.apple.com/join/VP1EDJjS bananamadness.comtestflight.apple.comJoin the Banana Madness: Go Bananas! betaAvailable on iOS 021
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 22/07/2026I’ve noticed a lot of people have gone back to X/Twitter over the past few weeks. Does AT Proto have staying power if X doesn’t use it? 120
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 10/07/2026If Meta had used AT Proto instead of federating with Mastodon for Threads I don’t think any of us would be on Bluesky right now. Instead, Threads is kind of irrelevant. 120
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 11/06/2026Hey Bitcoin people.. is this something you'd be interested in - avocadough.xyz/developersavocadough.xyzDevelopers - AvocadoughDeveloper documentation for Avocadough's AT Protocol payment identity layer: the xyz.avocadough.payment.endpoint lexicon, resolution flow, and AvocadoughKit. 253
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 05/06/2026using my Claude tokens to fix NJ Transit rail service. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social call me 010
Reposted by Tom RademakerTom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 17/05/2026promises made, promises kept. Effem: Web: effem.xyz TestFlight: testflight.apple.com/join/nst2Dd2B 132
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 17/05/2026promises made, promises kept. Effem: Web: effem.xyz TestFlight: testflight.apple.com/join/nst2Dd2B 132
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 10/05/2026Every time I plan to release a public TestFlight I find something else I want to change about the UI. No matter the state of the codebase, I will ship a public beta within 1 week 👀 070
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 09/05/2026Claude, re-write the swift compiler in zig. Don’t stop until you’re done. 3221
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 29/04/2026"why don't we just train our own frontier model?" Because that requires a team with multiple genius level brains plus money plus huge compute resources. 120
Reposted by Tom RademakerMaciej Szamowski @szamski.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Tomorrow morning the first batch of testers gets into hora Calendar. After that, 200 more slots open up. Native macOS app for Google Calendar. Swift, SwiftUI, no Electron, no webview. #SwiftUI #indie_dev #MacDev #betatests horacal.app/testflight 141
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 23/04/2026I don't need to re-write my API from Go to Swift I don't need to re-write my API from Go to Swift I don't need to re-write my API from Go to Swift right!? Claude plan out how I can convert this perfectly fine code from Go to Swift. 380
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 23/04/2026is anyone using Jetstream? docs.bsky.app/blog/jetstreamdocs.bsky.appIntroducing Jetstream | BlueskyOne of most popular aspects of atproto for developers is the firehose: an aggregated stream of all the public data updates in the network. Independent developers have used the firehose to build real-t... 110
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 23/04/2026Why do real estate apps/websites not have comment sections?! I have.. opinions 010
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 21/04/2026yo Apple and John Apple, feel free to steal this and add it to the Apple Podcasts app. (and hire me to maintain it) 010
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 20/04/2026I reserve the right to change any and/or all of this.. or not even ship at all. effem.xyz/developerseffem.xyzEffemEffem - Social Podcasting 050
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 14/04/2026On new Xcode projects, am I crazy for changing "Default Actor Isolation" from MainActor to nonisolated? Because that is what I do. 370
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 08/04/2026LLMs being really good at programming is not AGI. I’ll never get a job again but it’s not AGI. 040
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 03/04/2026Hey @whitehouse-47.bsky.social can you send me like $10 million from this budget? Literally no one would know. 030
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 02/04/2026How does the @germnetwork.com badge get added to a user’s profile? Is that something the @bsky.app team supports or is it something third party devs can access? 121
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 02/04/2026I’m not launching anything for a bit but seeing all the #atmosphereconf posts has me itching to share. Is this something people would be interested in? effem.xyzeffem.xyzEffemEffem - Social Podcasting 221
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 31/03/2026I currently have 5 apps on the App Store. Zero users. How do people market apps? 351
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 30/03/2026the more I learn about Javascript the less I understand it's dominance 292
Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 30/03/2026this is why Nostr is such a bad UX - www.pfrazee.com/blog/practic...pfrazee.comPractical DecentralizationThe point of decentralization is to guarantee the rights of individuals and communities on the Internet. Pulling that off is a balancing act between practicality and ideology. 030