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I like how Pi released an updated with a new oauth client name field for mcp where I just wrote Codex and Figma mcp works now.

This is so complicated, I would have to install mcp-adapter to Pi etc. I just have a public github repo with my Pi setup https://github.com/igorkulman/pi-skills

I use https://github.com/ZingerLittleBee/Heeler on iOS, works OK, but needs to be installed via TestFlight, not released yet.

Kind of bullshit, instead of cutting Claude Code token usage by 90% it is cutting Claude Code file read token usage by delegating reads to Gemini flash (with its own usage) and trusting the summary of files it provides is not crap.

Location: Prague, Czech Republic (EU). Remote: Yes, strongly preferred. Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, Combine, Core Data, REST, WebSockets, XCTest/XCUITest, CI/CD

Résumé/CV: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igorkulman/ GitHub: https://github.com/igorkulman Blog: https://blog.kulman.sk/ Email: igor@kulman.sk

Senior iOS engineer with 10+ years of experience building and shipping native mobile applications.

I've worked on security and privacy-focused products including Proton VPN and Teamwire. My experience includes large long-lived UIKit codebases, real-time messaging, networking, persistence, application architecture, and maintaining production apps over many years.

Outside work I design and ship my own apps. Recent projects include Yomu, a Japanese reading app with adaptive furigana and an offline dictionary, and Setsumei, which analyzes Japanese sentences and explains their grammar.

Looking primarily for a senior iOS / Apple-platform product role. I'm also interested in AI-native developer tooling and engineering-productivity roles where strong software engineering experience is more important than an ML background.

EU citizen. Open to full-time or B2B.

Around 20

yes, with qwen3.8-27b-4bit run via rapid-mlx i can get to about 200k

I am working on another iOS to help me learn Japanese, this time for explaining grammar. Put in a Japanese sentence, tap Analyze and you get grammar detected, highlighted, explained. There is a public testflight if anyone is interested https://setsumeiapp.kulman.sk/

I paid only about 1000€ after a bit of negotiations for that one in the post because it had no box, no papers but it was from a trusted seller from a local watch forum.

Yeah, I meant using Pi with the local qwen model vs when I was using claude with sonnet or codex with gpt

What do you mean by new philosophy? I use Pi the same way I used gpt or sonnet, just for simpler tasks.

yeah, I am using Pi right now, I switched from OpenCode

No issues with OpenCode and the Qwen models. Some issues with Pi because it uses different tool calling format, but I solved that with an extension.

I wrote a similar post some time ago just used ollama and opencode https://blog.kulman.sk/running-local-llm-coding-server/

I am working on a small Pascal IDE for iOS.

It runs code locally (written in Swift), includes examples, and has a Turbo Pascal–style theme for max nostalgia.

https://pascal.kulman.sk

I recently built a small iOS expense tracker called Ledgee.

I tried quite a few finance apps over the years, but they all felt too heavy for what I needed. I mainly wanted the fastest possible way to record a transaction before I forget it.

The core interaction is basically:

enter amount → tap category → saved

No save button, no forms, no subscriptions. Just quick manual entry, a simple overview, and a ledger. Data syncs via iCloud so it’s backed up automatically.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ledgee/id6759487219

I’m curious whether other people also prefer manual entry over bank integrations.

I am not sure it can be attribute to management. Not sure if good management could improve my motivation for example. Sometimes I feel like the world around me has changed and I am not able to change with it, just thinking of the good old days https://blog.kulman.sk/i-used-to-like-software-development-b...

I do not think it would get lonely. I am not a very sociable person. I worked at a remote company where daily meeting were held because people wanted to be in contact with each other but that was not me.

https://blog.kulman.sk — personal blog about software development, indie iOS apps, self-hosting, and productivity. English.

https://www.kulman.sk — personal homepage with projects and links (Slovak).

Working on Yomu, an indie iOS Japanese reader intended to make intermediate reading easier.

It started while I was studying for JLPT N4 — I wanted adaptive furigana that hides readings for kanji I already know, so I could focus on real text without constant lookups. That shaped the core architecture: level-based furigana, offline dictionary (JMDict), and custom tokenization logic with IPADic for accuracy.

Some interesting challenges have been furigana edge cases, Safari text paste quirks, and balancing offline performance with accuracy.

Yomu is live on the App Store now, and I’m writing about the problems that led me to build it on my blog: https://blog.kulman.sk/japanese-reading-problem/.

I’m working on Yomu, an iOS app for reading Japanese text with adjustable furigana.

I’m learning Japanese myself (recently took JLPT N4), and I noticed that full furigana makes me rely on readings instead of actually reading kanji. Yomu lets you hide furigana for kanji up to your level and keep it for harder ones.

It’s offline-first, supports importing text from anywhere, camera OCR, and a fast dictionary.

https://yomuapp.kulman.sk

I managed to create a new Apple id with new email, new phone number, I had to use it on a real device to be able to get through payment. So far so good, lets see if I can actually publish the app.

For anyone interested in testing the app and providing feedback here is a TestFlight link https://testflight.apple.com/join/SHngHsGk

I managed to create a completely new Apple id and get through, if you are interested in testing the app and providing feedback you can join Testlflight beta https://testflight.apple.com/join/SHngHsGk

Not macOS, Linux to be competently different that my main machine.

I bought a new SIM to have a new phone number, create a new email, registered a new Apple ID from a different IP, got to the step where I have to pay for the dev account and all of the cards I used got me an error. Banks saying Apple did not even try charging them.

I bought a new SIM to have a new phone number, create a new email, registered a new Apple ID from a clean VM and different IP, got to the step where I have to pay for the dev account and all of the cards I used got me an error. Banks saying Apple did not even try charging them.

That was a decade ago, used on a single project and I kind of doubt Apple would link my Github account to my Apple Id.

Please do not call me a Russian .. I am Slovak.

Thanks for noticing, I fixed the links.

I am in the same situation but in central Europe and looking for a bit more niche position, I am a mobile developer with 10+ years of experience doing iOS.

I have been looking for a job since the middle of the July with not much to show off. I have decreased my salary expectations but that is not the main problem, there are just no jobs to apply to.

For the last 7 years I have been working remotely for various companies inside the EU but it looks to me remote jobs are almost dead now. Everyone wants people back in the office.

My, probably controversial, opinion is that before Covid remote jobs were jobs for the more skilled people, so companies offered them knowing what they will get in return. But during Covid, when everyone worked remotely, some people not doing that that well, the companies just started considering remote jobs not worth it.

Local jobs are almost not existent too here, sometimes there is an opening at a bank but immediately fills in with tens of applications.

Last time I was looking for a new job, in 2022, after 1 month of the search I had 3 offers to choose from; 1 remote EU job and 2 remote local jobs.

Now, after 4 months, the furthest I got was remote EU job where after 5 rounds I was told I made it into top 3 candidates but was not chosen.

I started brushing up on C#/.NET I did over a decade ago as something to switch to, I am definitely not an Apple fanboy to stick to iOS at all costs, but the situation with those kinds of jobs does not look that much better either.