Marcel QT (he/him)

Announcing PantryPal, your new assistant in the kitchen 🥧 PantryPal improves home cooking by suggesting recipes for ingredients you already have. Get cooking faster. Early registrations now open. Launching in June, keep an eye out 👀 pantryapp.com.au

I don’t know what lies ahead for the future of software engineering, but I think that staying curious, learning from fundamentals, and having fun along the way will bring success no matter what comes next.

I’m also noticing less coding fatigue than I used to. Side projects and one-off tools that I never had the time to build are now possible. Niche knowledge of programming languages that I might not have bothered to research previously is now instantly accessible.

While AI can threaten software jobs, I can’t help but appreciate its acceleration of my output and knowledge about my craft

Linus vibe coding and saying AI did better than him feels surreal. Not sure if it indicates AI advancement or the beginning of the end of human-led development

2026 Dev Goals - Scale PantryPal to 10,000 monthly active users (currently ~500) - Launch PantryPal as a web app and native recipe website - Become a cooking content creator - Continue mastering React Native, Typescript and Python - Post more about my dev journey

@reactiive_ fantastic ruleset, will try today

Introducing Refined ✨ A simple eslint plugin that instantly sharpens your React Native app. 🧵 Here are the rules/tips:

@cursor_ai Noticed that specifying specific PRs and commits is no longer available via symbols. What’s the best way to provide this context now?

We've shipped several quality-of-life improvements to Cursor! Details below...

@kyleanthony @helixdb incredible design

New brand identity system for Helix-DB. Backed by YC and Nvidia.

under <100 lines of code and i’m able to transition my react native mobile app into a web app pretty insane time to be a dev

@S0LARIN awesome work

v0.3.0 of expo-drawpad just dropped🎨 added gradients, brushes, SVG export & smoother curves feels way better now:)

@zenorocha Congrats team! I just signed up today

Resend just crossed 16k paying customers! 🎉 It took 1.5 years to go from 0 to 2k customers. Now, we're adding 2k customers every month 🚀 No sales team yet. Just PLG.

@birch_js this is such a sick idea

Announcing my new personal docs site, Birchdocs! 🍾 Here I'm sharing everything I've learned over 10 years as a software engineer. I plan to cover React Native, Expo, web dev, Node.js dev, native platforms, and more. And all advanced topics, not shallow stuff. Link below!

@GarnetKane99 looking so good

🧃🎮🕹️Must... keep... making... game... Melbourne International Games Week is so much fun in keeping the game dev fire alive🔥❤️‍🔥- What's been your favourite event so far?🤔 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #IndieGameDev #pixelart #pixelartist #2dgame #unitygame

such a great time to be building in the react native ecosystem

@GarnetKane99 sooooo cool to see the incremental progress man

I think this is one of my favourite screenshots from my game in its current state - it really shows the chaos and intensity of what's to come and MAN that makes me excited. #gamedev #pixelart #indiedev #gamedeveloper #gamedevelopment #indiedeveloper #pixelartgame

so satisfying to see some growth on pantrypal. hit 100 unique users in last 7 days which is a milestone for us!

@GarnetKane99 hellll yeah! will be out in public beta soon 👀

@marcelqtaylor 👀👀👀jake says YES too keen to hear more man!!

cheeky new side project inbound

My web dev skills just increased 10x