Lee Adkins

that’s my driver

I’m a very patient person but if one of our engineers complained about being forced to properly align an icon at Apple I would probably not show the best side of myself. If your HI team tells you the icon is positioned wrong, the answer is, “I’ll go figure that out.”

@domjnieto27 @trysunflower There’s another navigation update in progress that brings more glass, but the primary noticeable change in this one is that the keyboard is now the correct iOS 26 keyboard, and native menus and confirmations are also using Liquid Glass.

@leeadkins @joshuaj_rock @trysunflower Noticed the first iOS 26 update. But I can’t tell any difference lol. Is more planned?

We’re ramping up at @trysunflower and hiring another iOS engineer (Swift / UIKit / SwiftUI). If you sweat the details and care about how software actually feels to use, we should talk. Come build a calmer, more personal take on email. Details below

@jlongster this is the way. rubber duck programming, but you aren't the one that has to start the work at the end.

they told me to prompt via dictation. my prompts now:

you have to be a little obsessed and crazy to truly push on craft and design. smaller teams with passionate builders shine here. craft is spending 7 hours on the minuscule polish thing you thought was going to take 30 minutes but you keep going deeper. the thing that is absolutely of trivial necessity that most would think is a waste of time. sane people would compromise and find another solution. crazy people that eschew the standard way of designing and building common interactions, UI, and hardware just to see how it feels, or to tug at an inkling of a vision then do that about 100 more times throughout your product before you're remotely proud of it. it can't be outsourced or handed off to others to implement.

@Stammy Thankfully this cycle is easier to follow than the “wake up, new agent orchestrator” one a few weeks ago Wonder what the next loop brings us

- cogito.md - clearly.md - writer.computer - tolaria.md - md-preview.app - github.com/GRVYDEV/marky ...

@joshuaj_rock @trysunflower Nope, Sunflower is all SwiftUI and UIKit.

@leeadkins @trysunflower I thought you guys are all in expo/rn

Shoot us an email: formcollective.craft.me/ios-engineer-o…

Can confirm -> the new @framer logo shaders are absurdly good. Infinite customization and so much fun to play with. Dropped a few @trysunflower svgs in, and created a background sound with @floraai's new audio tools.

overcooking you've seen this: someone ships a dashboard that shows every number with a sparkline, every action has a confirmation modal, every empty state has an animated illustration and a tagline. individually each decision made sense to someone. together it feels like chaos. nothing is in focus. that's overcooking. not one bad decision in isolation, but the accumulation of reasonable ones that no one said no to. AI makes this worse as the cost of adding dropped to near zero. it can build a feature, even a whole new concept in minutes. so people do. and then they do it again. the thing that started with a clear purpose slowly becomes a collection of additions that are each justifiable but collectively incoherent. the root problem is that most "new ideas" aren't new. they're repackaging of something that already exists at a more fundamental level. a new sticker on an old concept. it feels like progress because something changed, with a new word and skin – but the thinking didn't go deeper, it just duplicated itself into confusion. the whole has a core. you feel it once you understand the whole system. everything in it are related and balanced. when you overload it, that gravity weakens. not because any one thing is wrong – but because attention is finite and you force it everywhere. what we need aren't more tools that make more slop. it's seeing through the chaos, and returning to what the thing actually is, and cutting everything that doesn't serve that. that's harder now, not easier. because there's always something else you could add with one more prompt.

@karrisaarinen @rjonesy @linear was _just_ about to ask about this. can't wait for MCP support. that'll let us bridge a lot of Linear Asks-sourced support requests right into some in-product tools

@rjonesy @linear Me copy pasting. Or I have skill to pull it from granola MCP (MCP servers coming soon)

I might be biased but 90% my work AI use has moved to @linear recently: - pull daily report what should I pay attention to - recent user frustrations or trend needs - check launch dates on projects - make fixes on the product with the coding agent - reflect my specific thoughts against product memo - writing investor updates based on our progress - ask about specific features to debug user issues - pull specific follow ups from meeting transcripts - write project update based on the meeting we had - prep for customer call based on the brief I got, and the - plans we have - research new features based on customer requests - research revenue opportunity based on some of the - features and customers we have - find latest trends on bugs - write blog post about a feature on my phone - set up project, docs, milestones and issues from feature research - create issues to project from our “roast” feedback meeting I could do lot of these in other tools as well, but I like that I can work in the context and at-mention specific documents, issues, teams, projects, or files when I'm chatting. Then actually start making plans or work to make changes or assign people on things. I also have set up the same writing guidance and skills that I have in other tools but somehow feel Linear understands me better. I feel like not working in some void but some structure around me which I can flip between the agent and the structure, and it's all about work & Linear, not about my personal questions or topics.

Excited to ship this to our alpha users! Magic Reply has been a game changer for how I reply to emails Unlike other approaches to AI-generated email replies, Magic Reply asks clarifying questions, understands more context, and almost always nails the response & tone It's in many ways a re-imagining of a basic UI primitive: the text input. And we're going to keep improving it Give it a try if you're in the alpha!

@thdxr review the last agent's code with a sense of disappointment

so what do you do when your agent is working and don't say start another agent because i know you're lying

very important to develop the intuition of when to pull back a layer while robocoding and question the approach, or to write some scaffolding to help steer. new and exciting variations of "make no mistakes" in your megaprompt can't save you. you'll save both time and tokens.

some thoughts on figuring out how to keep producing good work

Your flow state is the point where work stops feeling like work, and starts to energize you — yet most people rarely reach it. It takes 10–20 minutes of uninterrupted engagement to cross the threshold. The average knowledge worker gets interrupted every 47 seconds. Most people spend their entire day paying the entry cost and never once collecting the return. Here’s how you can change that 🧵(1/8)

"CLAUDE I ALREADY ASKED YOU 3 TIMES AND YOU KEEP GETTING IT WRONG, THINK LIKE A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AND FIX THIS BUG, MAKE NO MISTAKES"

@ThePrimeagen I swear I saw the “X” on your name on this post, tapped in and you were back to XGaming controller icon. They move too quick.

i don't work at x, i somehow have a badge. i use to be a "featured streamer" and i think this badge was recently updated to look like x, which makes me look like i work at x thank you for coming to my public service announcement, now get back to neovim you loser

@karrisaarinen @linear I love that @Linear is great for this even if you're weary of big orchestration. On our team, I advocate for always keeping the Linear MCP in your toolset, and get your agent to regularly create and refine learnings. Easy to share ideas across the team or other tools.

OpenAI’s Symphony repo drops → surge in new @linear workspaces created. The demo highlights the benefit for shared context and coordination between agents and humans. That’s exactly where Linear fits.