I just made the biggest blunder on my blog. My canonical tags on EVERY single article were all pointing to the homepage! What a catastrophically bad setting error. Thank goodness it's a new site, because if I'd realized this a year down the line, I'd never have recovered. #buildinpublic

I bet there's no one on earth with shittier commit logs than me.

My Google AdSense (blog) is finally making enough to buy an Umaibo! The ads are super subtle right now, so if I made them more annoying, I might earn more, but it's a trade-off with trust and branding. So, I probably should keep them low-key until my page views really blow up.
#buildinpublic

Used bolt, Gemini 3.0 pro, Opus 4.5, & v0 on one prompt for a smartphone app LP. UI-wise, Gemini & Opus stood out, but any output is a good base as I'll tweak it. Awkward Japanese? Probably the prompt's fault. Prompt too detailed? Might've hid unique model strengths. #buildinpublic

Was trying to figure out why my Expo builds kept failing, then realized the whole Expo platform was down!
Might be a Cloudflare thing again?
https://expo.dev/

I was thinking, "Man, manually entering metadata for 25 languages one by one in the store's admin dashboard? That's just crazy." But then it turns out both App Store and Google Play apparently offer APIs, so it looks like I can just generate the metadata JSON myself and call the API.
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Took 16 tries of "Hmm, something's off" for the app icon, but finally settled on
⑯: Splash screen
⑰: App icon
UIUX is never-ending if you get too particular about it, unlike feature development. It's kind of brutal how there's no end in sight.
#buildinpublic #cat

This cat and swipe animation, it's using Lottie animation and it's pretty sweet
Super lightweight, works on web and apps, and being in JSON format makes it easy to understand, which is great
I had no idea about this until now, is it still kinda niche? #cat #buildinpublic

Just realized I can "like" my own posts
Why wasn't this disabled systemically

Added an animation to the loading screen when launching the app + polished up the UI.
But still, with React Native, I can't shake the web feel in the UI. Is it my lack of skill?
#cat #buildinpublic

Threads is blowing X out of the water right now, even though it's a cross-post! It's wild.
My Threads: 1 follower
My X: 200 followers
Totally counter-intuitive, right? User demographics, luck, who knows. Too early to say for sure, gotta dig deeper.

Looks like Claude's coding senpai is also feeling under the weather with the flu

Just prototyped a surreal app where a cat forever watches from the edge of the screen. If this app sells, I'm getting a cat... (famous last words) #cat #buildinpublic