when i’m named king of bc ferries my first act is bringing back the buffet and my second act is bringing back the video arcade BUT my third act is creating a giant tree canopy at every terminal so you’re not stuck roasting in a giant parking lot for an hour at the beginning or end of your trip

Expo SDK 56 is out & it's chunky 😅 ◆ Expo UI stable on iOS & Android ◆ iOS builds 16% faster ◆ Android cold starts 40% faster ◆ Inline native modules ◆ Hermes v1 default ◆ ~58% smaller OTA updates ◆ iOS Widgets stable ◆ RN 0.85 + React 19.2 Full changelog: try.expo.dev/sdk-56-bluesky

Expo SDK 56 - Expo Changelog

Check out new updates and improvements to Expo and EAS from the Expo team.

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@joshwcomeau.com - i saw your comment on youtube on superbooth dreadbox artemis update video 👀 i've been thinking about getting this as my first analog polysynth!

if you're in or near prague, check out the @expo.dev x STRV hackathon this friday (may 1)! 💡 the idea: pick a business that you care about that either doesn't have an app or whose app desperately needs to be replaced, then build the best app you can in a day.

You can turn 10,000 photos into anything once you get access to the GPU.

it’s always funny to me when people try to paint react as some kind of “big company” propaganda. it was like one person’s wild idea and then there was at most ~5 people maintaining it for years. people HATED it when fb open sourced it. the only reason it won is because the model was actually good

antirez@antirez.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My POV on front-end of 2026

planners: our two universities will be at the end of a peninsula and at the top of a mountain people: won't people complain about how removed they are from the city? planners: almost immediately people: will rapid transit be created in response? planners: we'll talk about it for decades, but no

Scott Edgar@scottedgar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

One of Vancouver's great disadvantages as a city is that its two main universities are far from downtown. That's a problem! Because universities are natural cultural hubs -- museums, concerts halls, and sports facilities. That stuff should be where people can get to it!

🎥 React Native Directory update: videos embedded in package READMEs now display correctly and can be played directly on the package page. 🌐 reactnative.directory

With two weeks left in the Local-First Conf CFP window, you might be wondering who judges the submissions. Pleased to announce this year’s committee: @adamwiggins.com, @geoffreylitt.com, @schickling.dev, and @bumble.blue This group has serious credentials. Details in the thread 👇

🥳 We raised some money. Expo is the best it's ever been, and this round of funding will help us get a lot better. With this money we can go faster on the things that matter: faster builds, smoother native integrations, and better e-2-e DX. Charlie wrote about what's next: expo.dev/blog/what-ex...

🔎 New on React Native Directory: quick search is now available right on the home page. Start discovering packages faster, with less clicking and less scrolling. 🌐 reactnative.directory

Seth Webster (@seth.blue), Executive Director of the React Foundation, is our first confirmed speaker at React Universe Summit. As Head of React at Meta, he drove the shifts that define how we build with React Native today. June 23, 2026 · New York City → reactuniverse.com

Released a massive update of my coffee timer app, Single Origin. I wanted to brew the roaster-created recipes available on the Fellow Aiden & xBloom, so I built an app that guides you through every pour, agitation, etc. Since it's built with Expo, it runs on iOS, WatchOS, Android, & Web. 👇

In Vancouver for #AtmosphereConf! So excited to chat with some fantastic developers (@pfrazee.com, @iame.li, @reedharmeyer.bsky.social) about building with @expo.dev on the AtProto. Saturday, 2:30PM, Great Hall South — be there!

🙋‍♂️ so ... for reasons: I would love to know people's frustrations with: - the current npmjs.com - admin user flows on npm web ui (and cli, locally) 🙏

@expo.dev is so cool, we love hosting them, and they just announced how easy it is to upgrade everything!!

📊 New on React Native Directory: package version pages now show a Top Versions download chart. Quickly see which versions were installed most in the last week and how adoption of new releases is looking. 🌐 Start exploring: reactnative.directory

After these optimisations, our tests went from ~10 minutes down to ~3 minutes!

I just optimised the heck out of my company's Maestro E2E tests with EAS workflows. I used a mix of repacking & a few other undocumented optimisations to Android Emulators. Here's what I've done. #expo #reactnative

Accelerating continuous integration with Fingerprint, Repack in EAS Workflows

Cut CI build times by up to 78% with Expo’s Fingerprint + Repack workflow. Skip native builds and ship faster with smarter automation.

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Our CFP is OPEN 🔥 Chain React 2026 needs speakers who can level up 500+ React Native devs in Portland this July! All you need is a title and a strong idea. It takes 10 minutes to submit. Deadline: March 18. We want to hear from you. 🎤 sessionize.com/chain-react-...

i want youtube and podcast apps to support audio processing plugins so i can filter out the unbearable but trendy smart person vocal crutch of repeating “you know” (often abbreviated to something like “yeow”). i really would like to watch dario interviews but i cannot. note: i am mildly misophonic

Huge thanks to @expo.dev for featuring our journey with DEPOT on their blog! Big thank you as well to @baumstumpf.bsky.social for the editorial support 🙏 The path to success was built one step at a time - and those incremental improvements compounded to really pay off. 🚀

Expo@expo.dev · 6mo ago

🤑 Learn how bitglow modernized DEPOT's React Native app with Expo Prebuild, cutting upgrade time by 80% & boosting performance scores from 36 to 90. The blog from @bonesyblue.bsky.social is a blueprint for speeding up an RN e-comm app and protecting rev with OTA updates. expo.dev/blog/how-to-...

wow congrats @reedharmeyer.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/t...

TikTok alternative Skylight soars to 380K+ users after TikTok US deal finalized | TechCrunch

Skylight, co-founded by CEO Tori White and CTO Reed Harmeyer, offers a built-in video editor; user profiles; support for likes, commenting, and sharing; and the ability for community curators to creat...

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Expo SDK 55 beta is out now 🧪 (RN 0.83.1 + React 19.2) ♢ Legacy Architecture removed ♢ New default template (Native Tabs + /src/app) ♢ Hermes v1 opt-in ♢ Hermes bytecode diffing for smaller OTA updates ♢ More native Router features + better “Expo in native apps” support expo.dev/changelog/sd...

Expo SDK 55 Beta is now available - Expo Changelog

Learn about the changes, how to try it out, and how to give feedback.

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llms now seem to be good enough to build side projects that i never would have otherwise bothered to build. this is cool

claude is good / claude desktop is terrible

ice cream is underrated

Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history

4 million users worldwide 4.9 stars with 111,000 ratings on iOS 4.8 stars with 63,000 ratings on Android This is the kind of app you want to learn from. Check out the new guest post from the Lingvano team about their award winning app: expo.dev/blog/scaling...

How Lingvano scales sign language education to 4 million learners with Expo

Lingvano teaches sign languages to millions with immersive lessons & real time practice. See how their small team builds a cross platform learning app on Expo.

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