Lorenzo &#x27;kelset&#x27; Sciandra

We're featured by Apple in the Duo showcase newsroom article 🤩🤩 My colleagues James and Ryan and I worked super hard on creating the iPhone Duo experience for Shop App, and I'm genuinely happy about this shoutout 🥰 If you’re picking up the Duo, let me know how you like Shop!

apple.comDevelopers bring incredible new app experiences to iPhone DuoStarting this Friday, iPhone Duo users can discover amazing apps and games optimized for the first foldable iPhone.

link: www.apple.com/newsroom/20...

i know i'm super tunnel visioned but in the last week i've noticed so many more apps on my iPhone update to use native/glass toolbars and tabbar... I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING DEVS 😂 sending hugs to y'all, the iPhone Duo support wave is real ✨Shop is gonna look so fine on it✨

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Federico Viticci

@viticci.macstories.net

21 Sept

This M5 Ultra Mac Studio feels made for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next. - 100+ TPS at 4 or 5-bit - Token prefill is up 150% (!) compared to M3 Ultra - Can use subagents with room to spare Flash-Next feels GREAT for agentic coding, especially at these speeds. www.macstories.net/stories/m5-u...

21 Sept

finallyyyyyyyyy

18 Sept

Apple why are you playing with my heart 😭 27.1 not even out 27.2 beta out without Duo why 💔

android-developers.googleblog.comAndroid Bench 2.0: Pushing the frontier with challenging long-horizon tasksNews and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

17 Sept

The Android team released v2 of their benchmark for LLMs: android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/09/and... not surprised to see GPT Sol and Astra on top (together with Fable) - matches my experience (still waiting for a good eval for the Swift/SwiftUI side 🫠)

15 Sept

ok so i installed iOS 27.0 on my phone.... is it just me or is the virtual keyboard worse? like, actually less smooth?

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Alex

@alexdln.com

14 Sept

11 years ago, Node.js and io.js merged back into one project

the cat is out of the bag: we have rebuilt from the ground up Shop in SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose. it still feels weird to think that it actually worked out lol. needless to say, it was a crazy few months. Can you believe it? full rewrite, and now it's already out in prod 🤯

i'm a nerd, and there's so much I wanna dive in, even in mindset and vision changes (it is indeed true that, in the age of agentic, refactoring is cheap). At some point I'll do a talk, or something. We've sailed in uncharted waters, and I want people to learn from us.

I have to close it with a note on React Native: I still love the community to bits, and I've poured years of my life into it, and got a lot out of it. Simply, as mentioned by Mustafa, it wasn't the right tradeoff anymore here. I'm sure it will keep serving well devs. ty, rn 🫡

shopify.engineeringMigrating Shop app from React Native to native (2026) - ShopifyWe migrated the Shop app from React Native to Swift and Kotlin, going from proof-of-concept to publishing in 12 weeks with the help of AI.

for now, I'd suggest you start with the 2 posts: the broad strokes one, with the overall vision and what changed in Shopify around mobile shopify.engineering/back-to-native and then the one with some more details about the Shop migration: shopify.engineering/shop-app-mi...

two observation, just to put some sprinkles on top: • if a migration takes weeks, there's not enough time for the backlog to grow so big to add more weeks at the end • having a hard rollout deadline is a great forcing function to make things happen

there's so much, SO MUCH I want to chat about and tell about what we've experienced, what we've learned, what we've found and what we've figured out. Comments on the decisions, on what we'd do differently now, etc etc ...we'll get there at some point. not today, im too X_X

today's my 1st anniversary at Shopify - it's borderline insane how much the role of software engineer has shifted in a year. Been in this company genuinely feels like living at the bleeding edge at what coding is shaping up to be:

I've hit that bug around 10:30am, and by... somewhen between 2 and 3pm, the fix rolled out in prod - after some backenders and colleagues from the area owning team were looped into the whole situation and reviewed&approved my River PR.

We are truly living through a full mindshift of what software building is, and what you need to do and what are the tools in your belt. I'm lucky to be in a place where I can experience it full power in first person (the good and the bad). Onto the next year 🧑‍💻🤖🧑‍💻

used a fourth agent in Slack to dig into that (River, you might have heard about it from Tobi here x.com/tobi/status... ) and via it I made a PR to fix this backend issue (in an area of code I've never touched before) and then a different CI reviewer agent flagged something

that then River went ahead and took care of until the PR was ready to go and CI was green. It did loop on that PR basically unsupervised, while I was digging deeper with a secondary River instance into the details and impact of the bug across prod, looking through data.

Literally today (not making this up) I was coding our Shop mobile apps with my local agents, in parallel reviewing/tophatting a colleague's PR, hit a bug while testing it, spun up a different agent to help me debug it, figured out it was a backend issue,

29 July

on the topic of using Claude Desktop for personal projects, happy to report that Claude Design now actually is quite good indeed - last time I tested it it was when it was first rolled out in beta and it's night and then since then

27 July

i use LLMs via CLI at work (pi for the win) so despite being aware of such a thing, i was pleasantly surprised when i told Opus 5 in the claude dsk app about a mobile specific bug for the website i cooked a while ago it just went "well i have the iOS sim, might as well" 👏

26 July

interesting - first time I'm seeing an AI being "self-aware" ahead of time about its token/usage quota (opus 5, mid) 👀

quick update from two "5hrs limits" later: Fable seems to have the exact same issue as every other model - once it funnel itself into an idea, it doesn't get out of it no matter what I said. I literally told it to throw away all the code and restart again, and yet he stuck to it

to be clear: that was intentionally something that I wanted to test and validate for myself. I guess I'm just sad/disappointed that even this new class of models can't dig itself out of the direction it picks at the start. but it's also good to know for the future.

(i asked it to redo my website from scratch (V2), then told it "ok, this one cool idea is good, throw away the implementation and do a new wild take on that thing" and yet he didn't. V3 of the website looked super close to V2 in the things I explicitly told it to not do anymore)

im gonna be far from my personal laptop for a few days so decided to crank things up to max and just give it a big chonky task to see what it'd end up with 🍿 also just realised that it's the first time i'm pushing ANY model above xthink (always got "scared" by cost/consumption)

17 July

ICYMI last week the Android team revamped their eval board for Android and ngl I'm somewhat surprised how much better than opus 4.8 Sonnet 5 is. (it's still missing the latest 5.6 gpt rounds tho) 🔗 developer.android.com/bench && announcement: android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/and...

17 July

and to be fair, also last week Jetbrains announced the same for Kotlin: blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026... ...but the models chart is so outdated 🫠 🔗 kotlinlang.org/benchmark/

github.comFeature Request: automatic tab coloring via escape sequence · Issue #12235 · ghostty-org/ghosttyProblem Ghostty supports manual tab coloring (#2509, #10474) and a colorize_tab input binding is in progress (#11085), but there's no way to change a tab's color automatically from a runnin...

17 July

can't believe y'all convinced me to start using a software that doesn't let me programmatically change tab colors 🫠 (also, very mixed feelings about their "vouching system"...) github.com/ghostty-org...

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Brittany Ellich

@brittanyellich.com

15 July

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14 July

soooo dotfile repos. send me yours (if it's a public one ofc!) - I'm so curious to compare with mine 😂 ...which right now I'm keeping private 😇 (side effect of me actually trying to move over to ghostty 👀)

9 July

been using a portfolio website project (not for myself) as my personal project/test bench for models. Aside from the sheer fact that Fable allowed me to reach UI levels unreachable before, here are what I think my key elements if I ever had to do another simple/mid website 🧵

9 July

infra: namecheap + github + netlify toolset: bun + astro + typescript mcps: chrome devtools + MDN + netlify skills: impeccable models: opus 4.8 AND/OR fable 5 AND/OR gpt5.5

9 July

Anything else on top feels optional - but honestly I'm open to suggestions! What should I consider for future small/mid websites?

29 June

a bit late on this one but i immediately installed on my personal machine and will keep it there forever: MDN is great and i'm sure having the agents able to leverage it better/more directly is gonna make website building better overall 🔗 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...

24 June

folks i need to expand my horizon, what are some good swift and android newsletters? Something like "this week in react" but for those two native platforms. send me your recs 📩

22 June

been hearing about headroom lately - have you used it? thoughts? 🍿 🔗 github.com/chopratejas...

18 June

someone's feeling scottish today 🤖

17 June

I don't know about y'all but I feel that lately gpt 5.5 has been degrading quite significantly... I'll switch my core flows to opus 4.8 for a few days and see if it performs 🍿

16 June

...ok but where are Sonnet and Haiku 4.8 👀

13 June

from what i've read, tbh, I think that we'll see mythos & fable back up sooner than we think. BUT while we wait I want to put a spotlight on one of my fav benchmarks out there: minebench. The author always does great breakdowns, like this one: www.reddit.com/r/singulari...

github.comGitHub - Ammaar-Alam/minebench: Minecraft-style voxel benchmark for comparing AI models (Arena + Sandbox)Minecraft-style voxel benchmark for comparing AI models (Arena + Sandbox) - Ammaar-Alam/minebench

13 June

and the whole project is fully OSS: 🔗 minebench.ai 🔗 github.com/Ammaar-Alam... highly highly rec for good insights and token and price comparisons U_U (and yes ofc the entire geopolitic aspect of this fable thing is fascinating to say the least)

allright let's talk Fable now for a second: I see quite a few folks talking about it with very big praise. What prompts have you used? How did you interact with it?

...and given the higher cost/lower token availability and how it feels like a disruption/change that you can't leverage with other models, I'm not sure it's worth the tradeoff.

I need more convincing. Give me some examples or pointers as to how I can interact with it to get enchanted 👀

allright let's talk Fable now for a second: I see quite a few folks talking about it with very big praise. What prompts have you used? How did you interact with it?