mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Indie dev founder of Lightbeam Apps, video performance apps for mobile 🌟
Co-host of Waiting for Review with Daniel Jilg 🎙️
Lately:
- Available for freelance/contract work from June 🤙
- Making my own GUI for Swift (hopefully going cross platform)
- Working on a new app for video performance
“Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride.
Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”
Bill Hicks
A small step, and lots more smaller steps to do before it's working but I have the beginnings of my custom swift GUI running on Android 🙌
#Swift #SwiftOnAndroid #SwiftLang #Android #iOSDev #IndieDev
I had a branded hoodie and t-shirt made up, with my new logo for my app business, just 'cos. PrintMighty in NZ - and it's a nice hoodie and I think has turned out well!
I’ll be speaking online tomorrow at the next #iOSDevHappyHour 🙌
“Building my own GUI”
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iosdevhappyhour-march-2026-tickets-1985973534302
Alright burnout, you’ve worn out your welcome since you arrived 😤
I've updated my website for my apps, over at https://lightbeamapps.com
I'm much happier with it now than the old stack of html/css, and it's a bit more cohesive!
Oh and while I appear to be making status posts for a moment: damn, he missed🙈
I've predicted for a little while, that the ram price issue combined with the big AI companies either running out of investment capital or deciding to pivot and remove some of their subsidised tiers would result in a few innovations for local LLM development.
I'm interested in this. It feels ridiculous running capable dev machines that increasingly have multiple cores, AI co-processors etc and then sending all of your code out to an API somewhere.