Ryan

I really do not like react native’s useEffect. Why are all the LLMs in love with it? 😫

I’m now to the point of a public Beta! If you’re looking for your next job, and haven’t loved the job search experience like me, and you’ve got an iPhone, follow this link! jobping.app/Join-Beta/

As someone who has found themselves getting into an infinite loop scenario on more than one occasion with useEffect… I felt this one.

To celebrate hitting the “submit beta build to Apple for review” button milestone, I’ve written a blog post on what I wished I knew at the start.

I am 👌 this close to being ready for my Open Beta of this app I’m building. Here’s hoping Apple approves it when I submit it this week. Kinda exciting.

3 Cursor prompts that I’ll forever start using because the results are night and day different (mix/match/combine, depending on scenario) “Please user your (Mobile App Engineer | Product Marketing | UX Mobile Designer) brain for this one”

[Vibe coding an iOS app as a backend Python guy] Am I a full stack engineer now?

That was a horrible strategy Ryan. - Future Ryan

Pro tip: if cursor is feeling amazing one day, and then stupid the next, switch the model off of Auto and try a specific model. For me the banger is Claude 4

In other news, this is my timeline right now.

It’s seriously impressive what cursor can do when it takes your prompt and runs with it… like anticipating the next thing and adding aspects that you hadn’t thought about initially. Especially when it has access to the code of your full stack and takes into account the “other side” of the stack.

As a Python guy trying to vibe code my way into an iOS React Native app… Half the time it’s magic. The other half it’s 😭

I was today years old. xkcd.com/667/

I think it’s bonkers that I live in a time that I can just put in “CR2450 near me” and be directed to a store that has that uncommon battery in stock.

Am I the only one who reads a job listing with “XXXX is the Industry Leading, AI-driven—“ …And immediately hits next?

I now have a new favorite account to follow.

I love sensible arguments.

I wish there was a subtle hint/reminder in iOS that tells me which conversations I have read Reciepts turned on if you have it off by default (without having to go into the settings)

Today’s realization: As you get older, everyone else starts to look younger. Hadn’t really thought about this before but it’s true. Just look at Seniors from your Freshman year. Age being relative is a funny thing.

TIL this anti-piracy campaign ad used a pirated font type. 💀

Today I learned this.

I’d LOVE you to the moon and back @bsky.app if you’d improve your threading by: - Allow collapsing of threads (ex: Reddit) - Have OP’s own replies (read: when updating on said topic or to get around character limits) be at the same level as the original post.

So good. 🤡 @brendanvduke.bsky.social

Well this is terrifying.

This is dangerously good.

Similar TIL for me: the word “zero” grammatically follows a plural form. “There are zero monkeys in the zoo.” “There is zero monkey in the zoo.”(doesn’t work)

This was not on my 2025 bingo card.

Random Reflection: The amount of acronyms Tech has is ridiculous when you think about it. A small sample for just the Network/Security space: IPS, IDS, DPI, SSL, NGFW, CSP, CNAPP, SASE, CASB, ZTNA, RBI, SWG, SBOM, SCA, IaC, DLP, DNS, ADEM, CDR, SOC, SOAR, CSPM, CIEM, DSPM, SAN… 😅

Need a break from doom scrolling? This is fascinating.

[Doom scrolling] This really isn’t ok.

It’s Friday, which means I drop some new knowledge for your brain.

Ok. That’s funny.

On a recommendation by Jacob (see his medium post below) I just tried out Cursor.com. 🤯 I’ve found my new IDE. This thing is siiiick

I highly recommend if you’re going to set up an webhook powered discord bot to announce certain events for a service you’re building, pick entertaining characters as the bot. Lumalee the nihilistic cute star to announce customers who churn really lessens the blow.

For those that noticed the missing Friday release of What I’ve Learned, my household has been attacked by the flu, strep, and god knows what else at this point. Safe to say I haven’t had time to learn much. I already knew playing single parent was hard (I don’t know how ppl do it)

Distributed Systems come with Distributed Problems. 🫠

Is this in my company's codebase? Yes. Yes it is. Don't be naughty y'all.

I’ve been out of the loop on this Greenland thing that at this point I’m afraid ask. Do I even want to know?

Well that was stupid. Also…

I’m ashamed to admit I’ve gotten to the point of printing EVERY. Freaking. Line. #Python #AngryTroubleshooting

Well this is amazing 😍

You ever stop and think “damn I know a lot of things?” Had that moment after dealing with Bash script, Docker containers, Python code, APIs http error handling, JWT tokens, Azure infra, DNS, SMTP server, and cron… all in the span of 2 hours 😂