If squircled icons are actually better, then let that design win in the market. That's how we transitioned from the classic Mac OS icon style to the more photorealistic Mac OS X icon style. Developers adopted it because they wanted to, and because users desired it.
New thing dropped! pacever.org PaceVer — Pace Versioning (and alternative to SemVer, for mobile apps)
PaceVer — Pace Versioning
Version your app by the pace each release ships at. MARKETING.NATIVE.OTA.
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I'm available for consulting from June. Dev work, DevRel, Dev Education, Content Creation, and helping teams make sensible decisions about automation without betraying their users. 17 years exp, Vienna-based, remote across Europe and beyond. Boosts massively appreciated 💜
am i the only one that FUCKING HATES the stupid "smooth mouse cursor" that a lot of videos have these days? the one that always lags behind, yea that one.
I just donated to Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free, even though they are very spammy about it. donate.wikimedia.org
Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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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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Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️⚧️ The mere act of existing and being visible shouldn’t be as fraught as it is today. Let’s keep fighting to set things right. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...
International Transgender Day of Visibility - Wikipedia
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@expo.dev talk about old school EAS builds! people bragging about doing React Native for 10 years or whatever. IVE BEEN BUILDING WITH EAS FOR 56 YEARS, AND IM NOT EVEN THAT OLD!
@siracusa.social whats that thing for macos that can "minimize" windows in their titlebars? i finally need it, but i cant find it. i found that it was called windowshade, but i remember you mentioning that you made or used a modern alternative?
@simonpickup.bsky.social 👋 hello will there be an update to mobius for syncthing v2? is there a testflight maybe? thank you! your work is really appreciated. (is the best way to support mobius to sponsor you on gh?)
I've built an entirely new, 100% native, extendable, themeable, modal cmd-space launcher for macOS. 🍣 Meet Tuna. tunaformac.com
@siracusa.social here's the "glass phone" effect you were talking about a while ago. x.com/expo/status/...
Expo on X: "😎 This effect is amazing. It uses your camera's live feed to create a frosted glass background for your app. This is the kind of effect that makes your app stand out. There are so many apps in the app store right now. The competition for attention is fierce. Read this" / X
😎 This effect is amazing. It uses your camera's live feed to create a frosted glass background for your app. This is the kind of effect that makes your app stand out. There are so many apps in the app store right now. The competition for attention is fierce. Read this
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Introducing Yaplog.dev – a site for sharing agent transcripts. Here's the actual Codex session of building steve, the macOS cli I shared the other day. yaplog.dev/transcripts...
The birth of `steve`
Playwright is really useful for "manual testing". That is, when *los manos* belong to a coding agent. I had a thought – why couldn't we build sort of the same but for macOS using accessibility apis?
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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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How did we come here.. seems like both nativewind and uniwind are not ready for production, and I hate it because I love both. Nativewind (v5) does not have uniwind's `useResolveClassNames`, and uniwind doesnt support forcing a theme on a subtree, but nativewind does. So now I am stuck.
which apps are exploring feeds of something other than bluesky posts? like feeds but of other kinds of at:// uris.
@dotmeow.org your link to instagram on the website just takes me to instagram.com. maybe you need to add your account there, or remove the link?
Ayyy, an entire summer (and then some) went by, and Friends! With code. didn't even hang out once. We miss each other, so come hang with @pav.vin, @jonallured.com, and I as we take turns giving summer reports to start the school year. www.youtube.com/live/tGxbsQA...
Dev Show & Tell: What I did this summer.
Summer reports from Jon, Pavlos, and Steve! What'd they do this summer?
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@expo.dev we are trying out buildCacheProvider with eas, but running `expo run:ios` doesn't seem to every upload anything 🤔. help?
Hey friends, come hang with me, @pav.vin, and @just-be.dev for a little dev show and tell in 15 minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mve...
Dev Show & Tell #5
YouTube video by Friends! With code.
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Spark Beta launches Friday. Support us for early access. Full launch coming soon! #atprotocol #spark #control
@mikker.dev thank you for your work on leader key! you latest video also made me make this PR so it's easier for others and me in the future to install akimbo cmd. definitely sponsor coming your way soon. github.com/pqrs-org/KE-...
add first akimbo by pvinis · Pull Request #1799 · pqrs-org/KE-complex_modifications
based on https://youtu.be/EQYakLsYSAQ?t=253 credit to @mikker
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I want to make a @tldraw.com app for ipad. anyone using tldraw on an ipad already? anyone up for some TestFlight beta testing?
Finally don't forget that at-2RadDads is now at-FriendsWithCode! www.youtube.com/@FriendsWith.... Check out last week's Dev Show & Tell, where we learned about... - XCode & iOS dev from @jonallured.com! - lake-effect snow from @jpotts244.bsky.social! - Greeklish & Greek from @pav.vin!
Friends! With code.
We're friends with code! Are we friends who happen to possess code? Are each of us friendly with someone named code? Do we each suffer from an affliction named code? Let's find out together! Home of...
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