Applied AI Builder and Creative Technologist
Joined December 2022
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Akif retweeted
How do you recreate the feel of a traditional reed pen with an Apple Pencil?
See how Qalaris combines custom stroke rendering, AI feedback, and guided lessons to bring Arabic calligraphy practice to the iPad in this story by @startappfactory:
Akif retweeted
That's a wrap: the #Shipaton Blogging Contest is officially closed. 💚
@RevenueCat and HackerNoon have picked three winning stories 🧵
1/ @startappfactory turned Apple Pencil into a digital reed pen for Arabic calligraphy. Qalaris: ~50 video iterations with Gemini, a multimodal AI review pipeline, and RevenueCat Virtual Currency.
hackernoon.com/turning-apple…
2/ Ushio Hoshino built a membership app for a Japanese town where your card only completes after you've helped someone three times. Six bugs, one root cause.
hackernoon.com/my-safety-che…
3/ @darryl_bayliss built Buildhorn: GitHub CI status on your phone and iOS widgets. Kotlin Multiplatform, SwiftUI, Firebase.
hackernoon.com/building-buil…
Congrats to all three, and HUGE thanks to everyone who showed the work.
Read more about the #Shipaton Blogging Contest and the full winners announcement here 👇
hackernoon.com/shipaton-blog…
Akif retweeted
Introducing Times Square Demo Day! 🗽
Winners of the #Shipaton and Shippies will be invited to showcase their apps to real people at booths we're setting up on Times Square during New York App Week in October
(this is just a preview - not the final design)
Akif retweeted
Almost 500 apps in #Shipaton showcase apps.shipaton.com/2026
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Less than 13 days to go and we have now 792 apps submitted for Shipaton!
apps.shipaton.com/2026?x=10
Akif retweeted
App Store submissions for iOS 27 are now open.
📅 April 2027: new apps need the iOS 27 SDK or later (also tvOS, visionOS, watchOS)
👥 Social features: update your age-rating answers in App Store Connect
🖼️ New product page headers and search result assets are coming
Akif retweeted
It's simple:
Ship your app between Aug 1 - Sept 30.
Compete for $1M+ in prizes.
Win eternal fame and glory.
(We can't promise the last one, but it's a likely outcome if you win)
GET SHIPPING!
Akif retweeted
1. I use AI to write code and build for AI.
2. Old company fires me for building for AI.
3. AI-native company wants me to build for AI.
4. AI-native company asks which coding language I'll use in the interview.
5. English?
Akif retweeted
Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days.
It was an incredible, confusing journey, from directors and leaders asking what they could learn from the tool to getting grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Google Workspace GitHub code repositories.
I think the cause was that Workspace and certain leaders (and projects) were afraid of being disrupted. But the fear wasn't specific to my CLI, it was a broader fear in what agents meant for Workspace. Either way, the irony of my termination was the announcement at Google Cloud Next two days before I was fired that an official Workspace CLI was coming.
I want this out there because it is easier for me to explain my story and it is an experience I want to fully own. It's also part of my healing.
Nearly 7 years at Google was an incredible opportunity for me and I was fortunate to have wonderful teammates and a manager that fully supported me through these last few months. Thank you.
Akif retweeted
Introducing Sakana Fugu: A full multi-agent orchestration system accessible via a single model API.
Our ‘Fugu Ultra’ model matches the performance of Fable and Mythos, delivering frontier capability without the risk of export controls.
Try it: sakana.ai/fugu 🐡
Akif retweeted
Learn how to use the AI Gateway to run third-party coding agents inside the Unity Editor.
🔗 Join the Unity AI Beta: on.unity.com/4uifxwE
