TikTok’s US operations are changing hands and will be retraining the algo on US-only data. No word yet on whether a new app is needed. Meanwhile, @skylight.social — the TikTok of the atmosphere — is seeing massive growth this week. 🔗 skylight.social

The announced policy re: H-1Bs is really good in one way and bad in 3 others. The thing that’s great is creating more certainty about getting a visa. It’s so hard to plan for the employer and employee when you have a 30-50% chance of getting it. Certainty and predictability are so so so good. 1/x

Liquid glass, link previews, context menus, and more. Expo Router v6 gives you more native features that wow than any other navigation system.

"I'm new to React Native / Expo Router - how should I structure my codebase?" It's a question that comes up quite a bit, and this is an attempt at providing some very concrete suggestions. Already using Router? I'd love to know if there's anything you'd do differently, and why 📝

Running my foundation models app on iPhone 15 Pro Max vs iPhone 17 Pro (Build with @expo.dev Modules 💅) Check out my new iPhone 17 review video on YouTube, link below 👇

💥 Demos is now Open Source. An ongoing collection of 110+ React Native animations crafted with Reanimated, Gesture Handler, and Skia. 🧵

Introducing Expo Live Activity 🚀 A React Native module for @expo.dev that manages iOS Live Activities and brings real-time updates to the lock screen. ▶️ Start, update & stop Live Activities directly from your RN app ⚡ Enjoy simple integration with a JS-only API 📲 Handle push notification tokens

My React Native app NerdWord is in alpha! 🚀 I built NerdWord as a portfolio project to show my skills — it's a nerdy twist on the classic word game, using RN, TypeScript, Expo, and Firebase: nerd-word.expo.app Please take a look, any and all feedback is welcome ✨ #reactnative #wordgame

Is Spencer Rattler 🐍 the only thing in this league that can stop Indiana Jones and the Colts?

Idea: Ryder Cup/Laver Cup for distance running. 5000m on a track. 4 teams: USA, Europe, Africa, Rest of the World (Aus, S America, Asia). Score it like a cross country meet or an F1 race or something. Prize money for team that wins.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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Exactly this

Tom7, my favorite creator on YouTube, just dropped his approximately annual video. I can't explain what it's about in 200 chars. Think a Pittsburgh based and computer science focused Thomas Pynchon for a modern medium?

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Anyone proposing that an official be allowed to revoke the passport of a citizen for criticizing *this* country would be rightly regarded as batshit insane and deeply hostile to this country's laws and traditions. Proposing that they can do that if we criticize some *other* country? Fuck. That.

first weekend in the @expo.dev 54 cycle! We released some fixes ahead of the weekend, that we didn't catch in time 🪩 1. RCTNewArchEnabled (new) wasn't set consistently failing old arch builds on iOS 2. liquid glass effect for child views missing 3. @​expo/metro-runtime not autoinstalled as intended

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

If you haven't already, consider joining the Expo Developers server on Discord discord.gg/expo

Now that I’ve used pre compiled React Native on the Expo SDK 54 beta, I find myself very impatient with any project still building RN from source lol. Spoiled so fast.

To read the 337-page transcript of Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, is to be horrified, even enraged, by Maxwell’s brazen airbrushing of her conduct, and by Blanche’s placid acceptance of her rendition of events.

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

Glad that mainstream news is starting to be a little more aggressive about connecting the dots and recognizing white supremacy in this administration. But phrases like "right-wing activists" still hide the ball. This is a story about the White House welcoming open Nazis and antisemites. Say that.

📣 #ZcavengerHunt: 🕵🏽‍♂️ The final stop opens at 5:30pm! If you arrive early, please enjoy local neighborhood offerings until then 🙂 🕵🏽‍♂️ Only players with clue cards will be able to access the final stop. We couldn’t have imagined how many New Yorkers would be ready to Zcavenge!

You do not have to like John Bolton to see this for what it is.

Trump taking a 10% stake in Intel for the government is yet another reminder that Dems, when in power, should stop being afraid of their own shadows and do whatever the f*ck they want and not worry about political norms or rules or conventions or media name calling.

In fact, executing a search warrant on the home and office of a target of the investigation is not the "very early stages" of a complex white collar investigation. Unless you're a total dipshit.

There is no time to wait on App Store approval. With Expo Updates, you can push daily React Native changes straight to production. Here’s how Brandon Mathis set it up in just a few steps for Skylight Social by Bluesky Social. More tips and demos on our channel! www.youtube.com/@ThisDotMedia

Been having an absolute hoot working on a new react native app today. @expo.dev has come such a long way. And the react native community in general. So quick to develop with. Although I haven’t run it on the dreaded android yet 😢

Getting back into mobile dev with React Native has been pure joy. Hot reload makes iteration instant. That fast feedback loop is addictive. And with the right care, apps feel truly native.

🇺🇦 Re-upping this one in the name of decency and democracy. Slava Ukraini!

they don’t want you to know this but you can literally download more RAM with an @expo.dev config plugin

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

It's pretty rich that the party that's spent the past 20 years urging their voters to stock up on guns and ammo so they can be prepared to shoot down the federal Black helicopters the Dems are sending their way...is now freaking out about a dude throwing a sandwich at an occupying federal army in DC

ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media. I am not making this up.

There would be an immediate cease fire if Russia immediately ceases firing.

IF YOU SEE AN ENCAMPMENT BEING CLEARED TONIGHT DM us location & what details you have (what police, how many, movements, vehicles) If you see someone being detained get as much info as possible: - legal name - DOB - emergency contact/case worker - where they are being taken (precinct or hospital)

Want to learn React Native testing? The creators of Maestro will walk you through it — live with @mazenchami.dev on YouTube 📅 Mon, Aug 18 | 9am PT www.youtube.com/live/XVX6723...

🤗 Next to Pike Place market tomorrow @hailey.at will demo authing and interfacing with Atproto in expo apps in under 20 mins. And @reedharmeyer.bsky.social will show wild stuff @skylight.social does with Expo Router. There will be food and bev as well. Come hang! app.getriver.io/beta/events/...

During the “10 Years of RN and Beyond” panel, we’ll be looking back and forward, discussing wins and some things we’d rather forget 😉 First confirmed voice: @ccheever.com, CEO at @expo.dev. You don’t want to miss it 🎟️ clstk.com/4otaCXL

They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one.

Very lo-fi demonstration of Expo Router custom tabs with dynamic routes. Defined 5 "slots" for RSS feeds, with a 6th tab for "more". Select a feed from "More", and it takes over the first slot. Need to set a max number of slots with custom tabs, but can put whatever you'd like inside.

Qwen3-4B-Thinking (a 4GB download) just became the first model I've tested to directly push back against my pelican riding a bicycle test, calling it "oddly specific and completely unrealistic" and saying "this request violates physics and biology" simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/10/...

The new strawberry?

“The purge of dedicated, patriotic FBI officials like Special Agent Evans is an absolute disgraceful moment in history,” Zaid said in a statement. www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-...

It’s time to wake up - we are literally on the verge of losing our democracy if Donald Trump cheats his way to those seats in Texas.

Texas Democrats who fled the state to block Republican redistricting efforts told @rpaynereport.bsky.social that it's time for national leaders to step up.