The joys of being a developer 😀

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

It took a little longer than we wanted, but Ignite is upgraded to Expo SDK 54! github.com/infinitered/...

I tried to come up with something witty here, but really can’t improve on this quote 😃

The new 𝝠 Expo home page is live: expo.dev We were overdue for a new home that tells the story of what Expo has become: Everything you need to build apps. We added more pages to explain how Expo serves different stages of business growth across different industries. We'll 🧵 some of those below ↓

⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: Lean for JavaScript Developers

Low key one of my favourite React Native Skia Animations I've ever made

This is excellent and nuanced writing. "The same values that make us horrified at his violent death are the ones that should embolden our commitment to defeating the politics he worked for in life."

Have you heard the good news? California finished a project that will create tons of clean renewable energy & help prevent evaporation and algae formations while keeping solar panels cooler & more efficient. This article made my day! www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

there's a lot of exciting things going on in SDK 54, but the less exciting changes will hopefully make your upgrade smoother and your everyday DX with dependencies more stable 💕 All kinds of reliability improvements land in SDK 54! small thread about those 🧵

Try out Expo UI on both mobile and TV! 😀 github.com/react-native...

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Expo TV templates and demos have been updated to the new SDK release, and to React Native TV 0.81.4-0. The UpdatesAPIDemo repo has also been updated for SDK 54 and includes examples of the new expo-updates features!

Join us tomorrow at 12pm ET for episode 4 of React Native Mornings! Gabriel Donadel is going to demo all the new features of @expo.dev SDK 54! Including the new Liquid Glass UI 💦

I’m (not) sorry if it makes me a nerd but one of my favorite hobbies is trying out new versions of React Native and Expo while they’re in previews. @frankcalise.dev did a great write up on what’s got us excited about @expo.dev SDK 54.

Whether it's a greenfield project or an incremental migration - we're seeing an overwhelming number of Enterprise applications adopting Expo this year. It's not an accident. It's the direct byproduct of 10 years of building this platform and listening to our community. expo.dev/solutions/en...

I wrote about how I built my app Ductts! cassidoo.co/post/ductts-...

Building apps is easier than ever. But shipping? Still brutal. Until now. 🚀 Today we're introducing Expo Launch. The fastest way to get to the app store. ◆ Skip config ◆ Skip certificates ◆ Skip the maze Press “Launch” → land in TestFlight. expo.dev/blog/introdu...

In Expo SDK 54, TV support will include React Native TV 0.81, dev client on tvOS, sqlite, background-task, etc. expo.dev/changelog/sd...

@expo.dev config plugin for politely asking the phone to give your app more RAM

Would your CTO hold the 🎤 for you? Great scene last night at our Seattle meetup - hosted by @jim.bsky.social & the @internetstudio.bsky.social team. @pfrazee.com, CTO of @bsky.app, holding the mic for @hailey.at to demo authentication with ATproto in Expo apps. Thanks to everyone who came out!

I’m going to have to upgrade my Apple TVs it seems apple.news/AFDsy4bYeR3W...

Folks: Stop saying that the Metropolitan Police Dept. is under "federal control." The Home Rule Act allows the president to declare an emergency and make requests of the Mayor for MPD services. Chief of Police Smith continues to report to Mayor Bowser. code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/counci...

The weirdest thing about Trump deploying the National Guard to the Nation's Capital is that he still hasn't released the Epstein files despite campaigning on that pledge, probably because he's directly complicit in a massive sex trafficking operation that targeted children.

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft, as CEO Thomas Dohmke resigns. GitHub is now moving to Microsoft's AI engineering team, CoreAI, with a new structure for GitHub's leadership team. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder. Here’s how to use RSS. www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

🎮 Build 2D physics-based visuals in your React Native app with Matter.js + Skia. In this new blog post, @wa2goose.bsky.social shows how to simulate motion, collisions, and interaction—all using Expo, with TypeScript and zero native config. Link + starter project inside 👇 expo.dev/blog/build-2...

🥳 Very excited to co-host Chain React next summer with the good people of @infinite.red! See you in Rip City next July!

You never know who is going to take the bar stool next to you at The Beer Garden

Introducing react-native-wallet, built in collaboration with Expensify! 🚀 💳 A better way to add payment cards to Apple & Google Wallet 🔁 Truly cross-platform support for iOS & Android ⚡ Lightweight, dev-friendly, and easy to integrate 🔐 Secure, compliant, and production-ready in-app provisioning

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Goat Toddlers

I've finally open-sourced all the demos showcased at App.js Conf Here's a thread 🧵

I have built a universal component library using React Native Web and used Lighthouse for accessibility testing. It worked well. Aria attributes really help getting things correct regardless of DOM structure. Now stuff like Expo’s `'use dom'` should make this easier to get right.

What the Supreme Court Knew in 1803 and Why it Matters Today open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

TFW you find your web page that went up in 1997 during a previous career -- is still up! 😀 aether.lbl.gov/www/projects...

I have personally known people who were killed by mesothelioma. This administration keeps doubling down on its idiocy. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

i'm surprised by how low energy and farcical that whole military parade situation was. I was expecting Moscow 1945 and we got Spirit Halloween instead.

Facilities that make wood pellets have a track record of catching alight. Yet there are plans to build several near Yosemite’s tinderbox forests. www.wired.com/story/in-cal...

🖤❤️ RNR 334 ❤️🖤 This week: React Native on desktop? @saadnajmi.bsky.social from Microsoft joins our hosts to talk about bringing React Native to macOS! They talk about what works, what doesn’t, and what’s next. Don't miss it! infinite.red/react-native...

We all saw what the hell went on. What the hell are you going to do about it?

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

If this is how they treat sitting members of Congress, mayors, and judges—people simply trying to serve—how do you think they’ll treat you?!? This is deliberate. And it’s all about control and intimidation toward those who dare hold them accountable. Enough is enough. (2/2)

My speech-to-speech app uses Expo UI, which means I get Liquid Glass for free :)

Hey big law firms: It does not pay to capitulate.

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

🤗 Hearts are feeling full after another wonderful App.js Conf in Kraków. Thank you to the incomparable @swmansion.com team for curating this time for React Native devs to meaningfully connect and share ideas and learn from each other. We appreciate you!