Final tests before submitting Mosey for App Store review - then it’s officially my RevenueCat #Shipaton entry.
There seems to be something oddly satisfying about testing an app built around walking while actually walking.
I get my steps in I can catch up on my podcasts queue and at the same time see how Mosey behaves.
A few weeks ago I started watching TV shows only while on my water rower, which made me wonder if I could apply the same rule to podcasts or audiobooks. That’s pretty much how Mosey was born.
Now I’m walking around with ta pretty much finished app trying to fix he last rough edges before sending it out into the world.
About a month ago I started working on a simple app called Mosey - a movement-gated podcast app.
What started as a simple way to only listen to podcasts while on a walk has somehow grown into a full-fledged podcast app meets step counter meets light fitness app - and I blame it on two things:
The fact that I’m apparently incapable of setting clear boundaries around what an MVP should actually look like.
Last day in Crete and of course my daughter caught a cold.
I guess that’s what happens when you want to live in the sea for a week. 😅
So now we’re packing with runny noses, a bit of fever and with the parent-mode brain spinning in the background:
when did this start?
what did we give her?
how long did the last cold last?
It also made me think about CareLog again - an old app idea I started for logging symptoms, medicine and temperature for for kids.
I built a rough first version a while back, but now with two kids I might actually be my own best customer.
Two more days here in Crete - then we’re heading back home.
Morning walks by the sea, reading in the shade of an umbrella, some great food amazing wine then followed by evenings sunset and just chill.
It seems this vacation routine has made me itching to get back and work on a few ideas that came up while being here.
So it’s great to be here but excited to get home and back to my usual routine.
I always say I’m going to start a “writing practice” - whatever that means. Though, to be honest -I know what I would want it to mean.
I want to be able to write as clearly as I’ve been reading others
I want to do it with a ferocious consistency
and I want it to become something I do as an extension of my thinking, reflecting, ideating etc.
But time and again, I have a shy start (similar to what happens right now) and then it fades into oblivion.
Then, eventually, I read something that’s so clean, clear and simple that it starts the itching alll over again.
So here I am …whatever this is.
I’m now at the airport waiting to get back home…back to work.
Barcelona is the same amazing place and hope I’ll get back with my daughters in a few years.
travel day …but excited for a few days off with my girls in Barcelona
prepping the flower corner for the summer
the Sunday ritual when you have kids. Love it!
a bit colder than how I remember May of the last years but finally feeling the spring vibe
I kept seeing people build wild stuff with OpenClaw - agent swarms, automated research, specs that write themselves, etc. So after a lot of back and forth, I had to try it. I spun up my own setup, named it Q, and started wiring it into a real project.
So here’s a quick tour of how the system actually works, why it’s useful, and how the pieces talk to each other.
First two weeks of 2026 have been crazy on the AI front. There’s been a lot of Claude Code talk (at least in my bubble) and it feels like every day you have to learn something new… and unlearn something else…. and that’s equal parts exciting and anxiety-inducing.
I’ve never been the kind of developer who treats code like a craft to perfect but more like a tool to build what I want (I’m a mediocre dev at best)… and now that AI is removing a lot of this “writing code” friction, I think what will remain valuable is how you think:
problem framing, tradeoffs, and turning messy reality into something clear, elegant that’s actually providing value for the end user.
That’s the part that excites me.
The anxiety comes from not knowing whether what I build today will be obsolete tomorrow, given how fast everything is moving.
Starting today TWO is live on both the App Store and Google Play
It’s been some back and forth with the Apple’s review process and the fifth time was the charm. Five rounds of review. Five cycles of small fixes, vague feedback, rewrites, and patience. First 2 tries were totally on me because I had a login bug on iPad I definitely missed. The next 2 were :
paywall stuff where yearly tier showed a per-month price that was more prominent than the actual charge… which is against their guidelines.
Last week I had a simple idea: what if I could get weekly spending reports, with AI automatically categorizing everything and ideally with zero manual input (or as close to it as possible)
So I built this Skill (or better said Claude Code build one) that’s: → Connecting to my bank via GoCardless open banking API → Pulls all transactions automatically → Categorizes spending (groceries, utilities, transport, etc.) → Calculates my actual savings rate → Shows me week-over-week comparisons
Before you build, exhaust the question: “What would happen if we just… didn’t?” Sometimes the answer is “nothing bad,” and that’s your solution.
The problem isn’t that engineers can’t write code or use AI to do so. It’s that we’re so good at writing it that we forget to ask whether we should.
Great read and a great reminder that action beats overthinking, overplanning, and overengineering. Start with something, see it through then iterate and build on top of it.
Great recap of how the AI landscape unfolded in 2025. So much has happened that already feels like ancient history (remember the o1 models?)
A good reminder of just how fast this space is moving.
No. Apple doesn’t offer an AI that understands you, your life, communication, location or how you use software. And no other company fully does it…yet.
That said - several companies already deliver AI experiences that are clearly better than anything Apple has shipped so far and that’s the embarrassing part…and a real sign Apple is actually falling behind.
The fact that they are the most well positioned company to actually make AI the ubiquitous yet still not seeing anything remotely comparable…one mroe sign.
