Thorben Primke

@thorben.bsky.social

Product engineer @ Pinterest. NOLA based. ❤️ React Native. On the side, building a product to improve the invite and check-in experience for special guests & managing the guestlist for in-person events.

After testing various AI design tools over the past year—including Figma's latest AI features—Google's Stitch finally blew me away. It generated a clean, modern dashboard from just one initial prompt and five follow-ups. The results are genuinely impressive. 🎨✨

A simple dashboard design for a guestlist management product.

My Mac was running out of space and I discovered this little command. It finds all folders that are larger than 2G and only displays folders that you can access. I found a bunch of old Android SDKs, iOS simulators and a few other large files / folders that could be deleted.

It shows the command: du -h -d10 -t2G 2>/dev/null

Well...it works but maybe having a light and dark mode favicon is against best practices? Or I'm doing it wrong but I could only figure how to set one in the app.json for Expo to export the favicon.ico for web (to be used with EAS hosting). #reactnative

A code snippet showing how the html head's icon is set for dark and light mode.

This year, for Giving Tuesday, I supported NOLA_CODE, a nonprofit empowering underserved youth in Nola through tech education. It’s a cause I deeply care about, and I’d love for you to join me in making a difference. Even a few dollars can help them reach their goal! nolacode.org/unlock-nolas... 🙏

Unlock Nola's Potential - NOLA CODE

Envision a brighter future for New Orleans' youth Your Support Brings Tech Education and Future Career Opportunities to Kids in New Orleans The Problem Facing Our YouthEducational Inequi...

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It's that native feel! But... Restoring scroll is not free or a native feature (at least not afaik on Android). Personally it works for me on Bluesky fwiw. Icons are generally a design choice and same across mobile/web. Seems almost impossible to match the OS theme icons in an app.

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I finally got around to trying out a fresh @expo.dev 52 project with swmansion's Radon IDE. What a delight to see it break right there in the IDE. 🚀✨🚀 Next need to use the preview feature - reminds me of Compose Preview on Android.

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When I started building a universal RN app, I didn't expect to go deep on tanstack table and forms (react ts form / react hook form and zod) but tables and forms are at the core of this product. 😊🚀