Another day thinking about Forgejo + Woodpecker CI on my own server.
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- I would play Knights and Merchants again. Why don't we get games like this anymore? Simple, slow, strategic, and so much fun.
- I tested Lima, sbx, Tart, containers, remote VPS development, and a bunch of other sandboxing setups. I’m starting to believe the simplest and most secure setup for web, backend, and mobile dev, including iOS, is just a separate Mac with no iCloud login and no personal or
- Flutter and Expo are great. But if AI can build Swift and Kotlin apps in parallel from the same spec, why compromise? Maybe the future is two native apps, same features, same design, each fully optimized for its platform.
- Every time AI breaks something, it's usually not the AI's fault. It's because you: - didn't review the code - gave it too much access - merged what you didn't understand AI is a force multiplier. It multiplies both good engineering... and bad engineering.

