Mark Wilcox

Mark Wilcox

@mwilcox.bsky.social

Nearly 25 years building software for mobile devices. Ex-agency tech director. Found my happy place as a tech lead. Currently preventing food waste for the climate impact @ Olio. Dad to two amazing girls. Cloudflare & Windsurf for side project.

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Mark Wilcox
@mwilcox.bsky.social

👋 I’m a tech lead @olioapp.bsky.social. Interested in tech for good, particularly climate and health tech. Building mobile apps since before the iPhone. Serverless enthusiast & am a little bit of a Cloudflare fan right now. Dad to two girls. Glad this place is taking off and I can leave X.

Mark Wilcox
@mwilcox.bsky.social

Any experienced native component builders for React Native out there? Is there any established pattern for managing multiple props (some optional) that are all needed for one native SDK call? I can make it work but it feels ugly and potentially inefficient. #reactnative

Mark Wilcox
@mwilcox.bsky.social

Follow along for a slow motion #buildinpublic of a translation management SaaS. I’m scratching my own itch and experimenting with Windsurf editor and Cloudflare Pages/Workers/D1/AI. Currently trying to build without writing the code, just prompting the Cascade agent like I’m coaching a junior dev.

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Mark Wilcox
@mwilcox.bsky.social

This is a slow-mo build as those 2.5 hours have been across 2 weekends of free time so far. All these makers on BlueSky are inspiring me to make some more time for it though.

Mark Wilcox
@mwilcox.bsky.social

Follow along for a slow motion #buildinpublic of a translation management SaaS. I’m scratching my own itch and experimenting with Windsurf editor and Cloudflare Pages/Workers/D1/AI. Currently trying to build without writing the code, just prompting the Cascade agent like I’m coaching a junior dev.

Mark Wilcox
@mwilcox.bsky.social

It’s fun! I’m ~2.5 hours in, have 3 pages a couple of tables and a whole load of endpoints hooked up. I can create project, add/remove languages, add/remove strings to translate and translations for each. UX needs a lot of work. So far the only thing the AI couldn’t do was connect to the local DB.

Mark Wilcox
@mwilcox.bsky.social

It just couldn’t get the config right so I had to check the docs and fix it manually. I suspect Cursor would have been able to do it with the appropriate docs page added to context, but otherwise Windsurf has been a big step up from previous experiments with cursor. Next up, login & auth.

Mark Wilcox
@mwilcox.bsky.social

Josh’s courses are really well done. The interactivity is spot on.

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Mark Wilcox
@mwilcox.bsky.social

Mr BlueSky Please tell us why There were no makers here for so long (so long) But now X has gone wrong Hey there Mr Blue We’re so pleased to be with you Look and see what we all do Everybody smiles at you Mr Blue, you did it right! (Could not get the tune out of my head)

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