Paul Calver

@KevinNaughtonJr Pull Request much?

I was fired from Anthropic today. I was the engineer responsible for shipping the latest dev/claude-code npm package. Wanting to improve the debugging experience for the team, I decided to include source maps in the release. This resulted in our entire internal codebase being publicly exposed including thousands of files with every agent command, all system prompts, the complete query engine, Undercover Mode, Bypass Permissions Mode, and our internal telemetry configuration. I take full responsibility. I genuinely believed the safeguards Claude Code had built for me would be adequate and it was a serious miscalculation on my part. My actions have unintentionally open-sourced major parts of Claude’s architecture well ahead of schedule. I apologize to the team and to Claude.

Your habit app celebrates your streak. But what does it say when you miss a day? That’s the design question that actually matters.

Most habit apps become judges. And nobody wants to face a judge when they're already struggling.

@adamlyttleapps Release!

I'm creating a Claude Skill that makes ASO optimized screenshots for apps This is my exact workflow for building an app portfolio doing $70k/month The skill assesses my code. Works out the primary beneifts. Creates the hero headlines. Then directs you what screenshots from your app it needs. You provide the screenshots from the simulator and it pairs up the correct heading with the right screenshot. Then: It puts it altogether. Adds pizazz with Nano Banana And hey presto No more photoshop Should I release this?

Vibe coding an app this weekend? The AI generated patterns to keep your users engaged, that you’re accepting without thinking…. Those are the same patterns that just got Meta sued.

@PaulSolt I’m using the app almost exclusively now it’s so good !

What a difference one month makes for Codex! The Codex app is so much better than what shipped. The team has fixed so many issues, and so quickly. If only Apple moved this fast with Xcode...

@PaulSolt I use codex for majority. Dip into Claude for ui then bring it back into codex

Codex vs. Claude Code?

A jury just ruled addictive design is a legal problem. Meanwhile AI is scaling those exact patterns into thousands of new apps built every weekend. Nobody’s talking about this.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Yet.

Sleeping in on Saturday is what makes Monday hard. It’s called social jet lag. And most people never connect the cause to the crash. Sonno is the tool I built to end it.

@adamlyttleapps Eleven labs

Experimenting with video onboarding… This is a custom built SwiftUI view that lets me inject user interaction within a scene Video generated by Sora 2 Voiceover is me (just testing)

@DonnyWals Almost got me!! 🤣🤣

Holy crap Gemini 3.1 totally just one-shotted this entire workout tracker with a 2 sentence prompt. 🤯🤯🤯

I wasn’t going to spend this weekend with Codex as I felt we needed some time apart. Had an hour last night, thought I’d just say hello to Codex via Xcode 26.3 Another working prototype. Dammit. I’m a Codex Ho.

Note to self: When using codex to build iOS app that will use extensions (watch, share etc) Add the bare bones extensions up yourself first. Will save an hour or so unpicking plist issues I forgot.

@simonecanciello Just coz you can doesn’t mean you should

this is insane. no one can say this app is vibe coded. i got early access to rork max with opus 4.6. then i sent 1 prompt: “build a screen time app that detects when i’m distracted”. now tell me you can’t build anything you want.

Protect your peace like your passwords. Somethings just ain’t worth it!

@hunterjisaacson Making the user feel like you give a shit.

What makes good design? Colors? Fonts? Icons? No “Not making users think” On every screen you know what to do It’s so simple that it becomes instinctual That’s good design

Xcode 26.3 + agentic coding. Haven’t been this excited about iOS development for easily a decade.

@PaulSolt + test on a real device 🤣

Don’t assume something works unless you’ve tested it.

@adamlyttleapps Dammit. OK. I bet my “hello world” vid is worse than your hello world vid 🤣

The most important thing you can do for your indie career is put your face out there "But I'm shy/scared/not social" ... who cares? 99% of others are in the exact same position as you right now Stop looking for the next "edge" through AI or the next framework The edge is literally your face. You. And it's future proof. No AI is taking your personality from you. But it's coming after your skills. Put your face out there. Do it now

@markoilico As long as you don’t use manipulative strategies that hijack the reward systems (cute mascots that starve if not fed by users attention, streaks and other guilt systems).

Recently, we did 3 iOS apps, and emotional design was a non-negotiable part of it to make it exciting. Here’s what it is, why it’s important and how we add it: