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 😄

@birch_js Every time I'm asked if I am interested in switching to fully native I remember xcode basic experience and want to say something like "yeah Android seems to fit me more" but then all this Android studio experience comes to my mind and I feel farming is pretty peaceful life

Ken Trails

Gradle is very unforgiving and is basically the ultimate tarpit in which to get gaslit by LLMs. I hate it vastly more than any other build system (which is saying something, having used Xcode and Cmake).

Unfortunately we are already losing some to the dark side @tmikov 😄

One day, young devs are going to have to seek out the older engineers from exile to learn their lost arts from the pre-GPT era, like Rey journeying to Ahch-To to search for Luke Skywalker

React Native is often chosen for having a gentle on-ramp for web devs, being based on TypeScript/JavaScript. That said, it’s also the framework that has forced me to write the most Obj-C, Swift, Ruby, Java, Kotlin, Groovy, and C++.

I am the bone of my sword. Steel is my body, and fire is my blood. I have fixed over 2,700 Google OSS fuzz issues. Unknown to Death. Nor known to Life. Have withstood pain to create many weapons. Yet, those hands will never hold anything. So as I pray, unlimited blade works.

This is always a culture shock for me working in the Swift ecosystem, like going back to the 1800s. I mostly see only WebKit-scale projects bothering to use ClangFormat. In 2025, Xcode *still* does not implement format on save. Absolutely baffling, coming from web dev.

For the curious, the code for those two types of IPC listener is pretty simple. It's also the first time I've ever had an interest in programmatically triggering a reload of the JS bundle from Obj-C, so I was glad to find that it's a trivial one-liner.

By contrast, Apple Events *do* require TCC permissions (see how I have to grant them before I can execute the AppleScript). However, the upside of Apple Events is that the app will respond to them without needing focus. I'm hoping to find a best of both worlds… 🤔

Hacking away with React Native macOS 👨‍🔬 Here, I execute some Swift on the CLI to send a DistributedNotification to the app (a form of IPC that doesn't require TCC permissions). Once the app regains focus, it processes the notification, which I've set up to trigger a JS reload.

Bringing more CSS goodness to React Native. I’m currently working on adding support for the clip-path attribute. Here’s a little tease 👇

In a typical Tokyo supermarket: 🥕 A carrot is $1 🧅 An onion is $1 🥔 A potato is $1 You can get a flask of whisky from the convenience store ($2) for cheaper than making a basic vegetable stew. Nutrition is mad expensive out here, while self-destruction is cheap.

The one and only @nicoburns pushing forward CSS support in Blitz, a modular Rust-based web rendering engine used in @dioxuslabs. Leave no feature behind!

There's a big difference in productivity between: - a day where you get 6 hours straight to dig into a problem, vs; - 6 hours interspersed with context-switches. Seems smart to defrag your day so that all context-switches are done in a single block at the start/end of the day.

𝙰𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍.𝚃𝚎𝚡𝚝 has been achieved internally in Reanimated 📈

Discord for iOS showing Discord for macOS the correct way to handle updates

Core Audio taps are one of the hardest macOS APIs to work with, particularly if you’re looking to mix with microphone or encode to AAC on the fly. Low-level, undocumented, C-based audio code. Found it hard enough to code in Swift; only wish I could write Rust at this level! 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

Now make them swipe away with the slightest accidental hand movement, like real Apple notifications

Wait, Lynx does desktop too? 👀

How it feels moving back to TypeScript after having worked in another programming language all day