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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 18/08/2026

Can everyone stop trying to submit slop to the app stores? These review times are excruciating

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 09/06/2026

That… that looks like… never mind.

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 09/06/2026

Gosh, my mum had one of these. I absolutely loved that piece of sh*t car

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 08/06/2026

#strava needs a garden landscaping category. I’m wrecked.

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 26/05/2026

Through every heatwave I get annoyed at my past self for not getting an air conditioning system fitted. Then I look at the prices again and think ‘ah well, I could just take a cold shower’

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 25/05/2026

A setting where if you’re using Bluesky in dark mode, screenshots with white backgrounds are magically turned dark.

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 12/05/2026

I hate to say this, but using AI as part of my day to day work has put the joy back into coding; I’m so much more productive, and I don’t have to waste hours writing tedious boilerplate

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 11/05/2026

Er, Claude? TIL you can customize the verbs in Claude Code 😂

Screenshot of a Claude code terminal, with the phrase “Destroying evidence…” displayed while the model is running

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 03/03/2026

The new Aiko 495w panels on their way up the ladder. Don’t think the weather is going to allow for a proper test today though ☁️

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 03/03/2026

New solar panels day 😊☀️☀️☀️

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 22/02/2026

Working almost exclusively with #KMP for the last few months has been liberating. I now confidently describe myself more broadly as a ‘mobile engineer’, and my bugs live in more people’s pockets than ever before

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 22/02/2026

What I didn’t expect while potty training our toddler was how many photos of poop my wife and I would send each other, nor how excited we get every time we receive one 💩❤️

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 20/01/2026

Amen 🙌 I love good design but I suck at designing anything worthy of an app store

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Sobo | Sobriety Tracker App @sobo-app.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

#DryJanuary is in full swing, with #alcohol the #1 habit being tracked this month. Wishing good luck to all those giving it a shot!! Sobo for iOS is completely free to download with no subscriptions or purchase necessary. Because there should be no barriers to quitting. Download: apple.co/3RWQMVP

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Download Sobo by Alexander Smith on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like Sobo.

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 04/01/2026

Nothing seems to eat up my Claude Code tokens more than unit testing with Kotlin coroutines and StateFlows 😞

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 25/12/2025

First Christmas for my youngest, and the first one where my toddler understands the concept of it all. Probably the best Christmas ever ❤️ Merry Christmas all!!

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 16/12/2025

Why does nobody on this train want to join my hotspot??

Notification which reads: “Personal hotspot available. Do you want to join “MI5 Surveillance”?”

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

No surprise: new analysis shows that heat pumps can deliver excellent performance even in older buildings with no meaningful correlation between building age & heat pump efficiency. This is in line with my own experience of having a heat pump in a 1880 Victorian home with only modest insulation.

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 11/12/2025

The best thing about being a mobile app developer is that your code could be sitting in the pockets of millions of people around the world. Bugs and all.

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 07/12/2025

🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 06/12/2025

Trying to enjoy my evening but can’t stop thinking about how many ways McLaren could hand the championship to Max tomorrow 🫣 Come on guys let’s finish this 🧡🧡🧡

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 02/12/2025

FWIW I’ve had decent luck when engaging with recruitment agencies (in the UK) - they’ll fight your corner and some have even coached me for specific interviews. They even help with salary negotiations, since they work on commission. Good luck with your job hunt 🤞

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 26/11/2025

Watching the budget announcement today, it’s maddening how shambolic UK parliament is - heckling, shouting, spiteful personal attacks - on both sides. I get that it’s probably always been this way but, aren’t they supposed to be adults?

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 19/11/2025

New job, and I’ve never felt so motivated. I have the freedom to work remotely, to balance my time with my parental responsibilities… I’m treated like an adult. In return, I’ve already closed 3 issues including a high severity incident, in just my first week. #RTO policies are BS

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 23/10/2025

I literally have no knowledge on this so could be nonsense, but in a situation where the UK was attacked, would it not make sense to have redundancy systems running in allied territories?

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 16/05/2025

Also enjoyed writing the alt text for this image 😅

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 16/05/2025

I’d like to say I’m most proud of launching Sobo because it could genuinely help someone improve their life by giving up a harmful habit. But I have to confess that I’m also feeling incredibly smug for getting my iconography past Apple’s review process 😇🍆 apps.apple.com/gb/app/sobo/...

A partial screenshot of the Sobo app, showing part of a pornography sobriety tracker. There’s a two-dimensional icon that resembles the shape of a penis and testicles.

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 16/05/2025

If you've got a spare minute today, would massively appreciate some support to help push this towards the top! ❤️🚀 #IndieMaker #BuildInPublic #iosdev

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 13/05/2025

I get the exact same reaction, but I kind of understand. As a native Android dev I find it hard to consider integrating flutter/RN modules into native projects. The fact that KMP compiles to bytecode might not be enough to persuade them that it won’t result in sub-standard quality?

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 07/05/2025

I took a YOLO approach to a side project while in beta, and got to production with no problems - happy to see it go stable!

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Clutched | Real-time F1 Leaderboard app (unofficial) @clutched.app · 03/05/2025

This Miami sprint race has been absolute carnage!! #f1 #formula1 #MiamiGP

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 03/05/2025

I’ve found sleep to be one of the most important things in life, and I realised how much mine was being interrupted after drinking alcohol - so I decided to quit. Wanted to track my sobriety with #ios widgets, so thought I’d build some! apps.apple.com/us/app/sobo/... #sober #BuildInPublic

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 18/04/2025

Yes, but it was not fun 😅

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 18/04/2025

Things I had to explain to my boss when I was building some: - doesn’t work below Android 12 - can’t use existing app theme - no custom fonts - no async loading of images - Difficult to handle sizes - Difficult to update them consistently - sparse documentation Awful experience 😅

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Alex Smith @sevengreenrobots.com · 16/04/2025

I thought I was having a good hair day today but the girl at the coffee shop just asked me if it’s windy outside 💀

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