Jamie Birch
@birch_js
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All-terrain dev working across web, native, TV, and backend for over a decade, with a particular masochism for React Native and NativeScript.
Tokyo-to, Japan
Joined June 2017
Pretty surreal to see @theo covering my article!. I caught it live, so can assure it was a fun watch from my point of view. 🍿. Theo also caught the fact that React Native deploys to e-ink Kindles and PlayStations, which I overlooked! Tempted to add those to the addendum now 😄
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Last October, Goldman Sachs were saying the S&P 500 "has a roughly 72% chance of underperforming bonds" so are the bonds doing well too or.
Goldman Sachs, $GS, says S&P 500 companies beat forecasts this earnings season, with Q2 EPS up 11% vs. 4% expected. About 60% beat estimates by wide margins, one of the strongest seasons on record.
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It seems I have listened to audiobooks for a total play time of over 3 months (2,235+ hours)
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Just found my Audible stats and it seems I listen to Harry Potter on loop for 150 hours a month
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I'm going to @reactuniverse_ next week! 🥳. 🛬 2nd Sep (Tue morning).🛫 8th Sep (Mon night). This will be the first React Native conference I've attended, and my first time in Poland!. Looking forward to finally meeting the many folks I've talked with online for so many years.
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So glad I don’t have to think about this. Looks like an absolute ant nest. Expo SDK 54 is looking like one of the most transformative updates since the move to New Arch. Hats off, all involved!.
Expo SDK 54's stable release is coming soon! 𝝠. Behind the scenes, changes to autolinking & dependencies make updates easier, and improve support across package managers for workspaces & isolated dependencies. Check out my write-up with a detailed breakdown of these changes ↓
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Who's going to @reactuniverse_ next week?. I'm still assessing whether it'd be possible for me to go, but I'd like to know what dates people are thinking of being around for, so that I can start researching flights and hotels.
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One thing we lost when we strayed from PhoneGap was the built-in “it just works” keyboard avoidance behaviour.
It’s been 10+ years of doing mobile for me… keyboard avoidance is still a problem here. I just can’t believe it.
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"@EffectTS_ is essentially an alien technology, grafted from the smoldering carcass of a crashed functional programming vessel.".
Effect is inevitable. It is monopolistic under the Thielian criterion: at least 10x superior to the competition. In a sense, there is no real competition; as Promise introduces as many problems as it solves, being the semiautomatic foot gun it is. Then there are the network.
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Have been eating like a monk for weeks, avoiding coffee, fat, wheat, spice, and essentially all forms of joy now due to GERD (which has caused me to lose 10% of my body weight this last year). But I've had enough lately and am now having a rare cappuccino, consequences be damned.
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My best solution so far:.
@ayushneekhar The only solution I can find is to forcibly kill the Linux process when onTaskRemoved() gets called on any Foreground Service. Unfortunately, this is a non-graceful exit – it prevents the app performing any safe cleanup. Open to other ideas!. 6/6
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I found on our React Native Android app that if your app is terminated while a Foreground Service is running, your next app launch will be "dirty", retaining all JavaScript state from last run. Has anyone has dealt with this? I believe it affects vanilla native Android apps too.
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RT @craftzdog: ジェイミー、ウケる「俺はよく車輪を再発明してるから、専門家が作った意見の強いフレームワークを好む。例えばこのエリックサウスのカレーみたいなやつだ」(料理と開発は似てる、の文脈で).
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Rest in Peace, foreign business in Japan. The proposed changes to the business manager visa will disqualify 96% of current business visa holders (of which there are 41,600). Japan is becoming an increasingly hostile place for foreigners to make a startup.
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Currently two days into debugging this thing, and I now mostly understand the reproduction conditions, just need to come up with a solution. It is an absolute doozy. A critical JavaScript state bug that may affect all React Native Android apps using Foreground Services.
I'm currently debugging one of the hardest bugs in my career. Everything I throw at it, it has an answer for
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> If we're using CNG then surely I don't want to be checking in those ios/android folders. I actually check in my ios/android folders when using CNG. It allows me to do dirty prebuilds (which are quicker) instead of clean prebuilds, and have confidence in the changes applied.
Is there a way to make an @expo module in my codebase without committing the ios/android folders? . I know that you can publish a package but thats kinda a lot of extra maintenance. If we're using CNG then surely I don't want to be checking in those ios/android folders. The.
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“Luckily for you, your issue is a skill issue and you can fix that.”. 🚒
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I'm currently debugging one of the hardest bugs in my career. Everything I throw at it, it has an answer for
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