Alex Gwyn

@gwyn.dev

Android @ Figma Formerly Android @ Twitter Spending all my free time building side projects. Currently LetterBlend.com

In 40 years I'm pretty sure we're going to find out the ram/GPU shortage is from 3 letter agency and DOD purchasing

I always had the dream of coding on my phone, I thought it would involve a whole keyboard, monitor and a virtualized Linux setup. Instead it's just a telegram chat where I post "The build is broke again, please fix it" over and over again.

Finally finished my 27 page google sheet that automatically handles EOY accounting for LetterBlend and it has every single penny accounted for, including foreign exchange. I can't believe people still pay Intuit money 🙄

I'm only able to run a Q3 quant of Qwen3-Coder-Next, but it's actually able to make really solid progress on issues and feature requests in my codebase. It definitely requires more hand-holding than something like Claude, but keeping all my code local is huge.

For LetterBlend, I had a customer email "support" with a feature request and was beyond excited when I had it implemented the next day, noting companies just say "we'll submit a ticket for future changes (that never happen)" Crazy how things happen when you are both "support" and "the eng team"

It's a shame that we ended on React being the primary library for web dev when AI became popular. Now there is too much inertia in the training data for any new frameworks to ever takeoff

Everyone else: AI-first, agentic, infinitely scalable applications. Me: I made nicer letters for your Cricut to draw 🥺

Sometimes I hope that the youtube PM who decided that after 10 search results you will get completely unrelated videos is having a bad day.

Git hooks (pre-commit, pre-push) should be a nice-to-have for your coding and commit pipeline. They should absolutely not be an integral step of your process. Don't try to run code-gen or enforce formatting in hooks. Hooks are optional, CI is for enforcement.

I really can't get over that people think government debt is the same as normal person debt and is therefore inherently bad.

Picked up a #Creality K1C 3d printer over the long weekend. The first few days it was great but then I noticed that circles were squashed into ovals. Even worse was that the squashed direction depended on the rotational direction of the line path. Turns out this is a relatively common problem: 🧵

I'm probably late to the party, but one of my favorite things I've found recently is that 'firmware' for almost every device is now just a Linux OS. It’s so much easier to tinker with hardware when you have a full OS to build on top of.

Putting formatting and linters in a pre-commit hook? Straight to jail. Don't make commits take literal minutes.

Pretty crazy that with 64Gb of RAM you can run a 70 billion parameter LLM with the distillation of all human knowledge, or a moderately sized project in any Adobe program

Still amazed every time I fly JetBlue that their entertainment screens seem to be running over analog video and that the touchscreens probably have to round-trip to an onboard server.

I grew my B2C SAAS startup MRR by 2600% in just 8 months. Here's my secret: Start low. I only made $5 the first month. By strategically keeping initial revenue low you can advertise huge percentage increases with only small increases in actual revenue.

As someone who spent a lot of time trying to make Twitter good, it's kind of a bummer to watch its well deserved downfall.

Have we decided if this is new Twitter now? Threads has some new "issues" and is just so full of internet contrarians who think their opinion is valuable enough to reply to everyone.