Aivars Meijers

@aivarsmeijers.com

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Freelance iOS developer by day, indie solopreneur in the early mornings.

Starbucks coffee is meh, but I like their thermos mugs, and I needed a new one. Also, that is deacent place to get some work done
Last week was a week of building and testing for a MotoLog app I'm pushing back on social features in the app untill will get more users, but weekly challenges are just screaming for competition Also, that could open doors for trip sharing and virtual rider clubs Perhaps I should wait for a few m
New Paywall experiment released Apple Store visited and iPhone collected iPhone Air is mex, but interesting idea Great start of the day!
Ramen -> Code Chinatown edition. Tonight's find: Odean Noodle Fantastic handmade egg noodles with pork and crab, where you can pick your crab claw size. Bank to Small Habit App dev now.
I answered all the questions you asked on Instagram about moving from Latvia to Thailand Just published Q&A video: https://youtu.be/L0fJCgBNIxs
Tourist mode on. Seems that Luka will need to get a guide dog certification to get into parks in Bangkok :) I'm not sure why, but dogs are not allowed almost anywhere.
In touristy parts of Bangkok you can get around with English only, in more local areas not so much. I sucesfully ordered ramen, but failed to get 3 portions of sticky rice in market. Got 3kg instead. I will need to learn Thai sooner than planned :)
RIX -> HEL -> BKK Long-term goal achieved, working from a coffee shop in Thailand without a return ticket in pocket. Now I need to get to those 100K+ monthly digits as other indies :)
Last week was busy. We had to clean the apartment, move out, and visit all the favorite spots around. And I got a horrible cold to make all of that even more tricky. Also, I uploaded a video about where and why we are moving: https://youtu.be/rgeGFhB_mbk
Nope, still not getting that vertical monitor thing. In other news, Luka doesn't mind sleeping in a heap of cables and gadgets.
Surprisingly, I can still code without internet and AI models. It's the midsummer holiday weekend here in Latvia. I'm on the seaside with almost no internet connection, but I still spent a few hours on indie apps. Almost ready to ship the MVP for another AI identifier app. I wanted just one more
Hello, my name is Aivars, and I have ADHD - I started the morning with a plan to watch a few WWDC sessions - Played around with Apple AI models on lunch break - On the evening, I launched the Vercel server for the OpenAI proxy and built a test app Wait, what was the plan for today?
Cmon Apple! Why could we get our hands on just-announced features? Do we need macOS 26 to get the intelligence in Xcode, or is that "coming later next year" and we should stick with Cursor?
I don't care much about AI in Xcode anymore. 3rd party tools are fine. I hope to see an announcement for an on-device AI model for developers. Like Siri, but working. Hanging out on Kick tonight to watch the WWDC keynote, come over if you need company https://kick.com/aivarsmeijers
Yesterday I released update for Focus Timer just to find an edge case bug for streak counting today in the morning 😅 The streak fix is waiting for release on TestFlight already. Discord server for app beta testing: https://discord.gg/f3VWj2VX
Today I spent morning hours creating a new paywall and started to localise it. Interesting that there is no Latvian language support in the RevenueCat paywall builder and on AppStore pages. So I can localize the App itself, I did it, but the paywall and AppStore page will stay in English. Unlikel