Cross-platform engineer trying to make native app dev as pleasant as web dev
Tokyo-to, Japan
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The app ID for Codex is:
com.openai.codex
The app ID for Claude is:
com.anthropic.claudefordesktop
Care to guess what the app ID for Cursor is?
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I’ve found LLMs quite handy for learning vocabulary. I’ve been using them to generate mnemonics and look up etymologies whenever a word is hard to retain.
Obviously the best mnemonics are the ones you come up with yourself, but for some words I draw short.
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Just did my first successful clean prebuild with Expo Desktop (up until now, I've been limited to dirty prebuilds).
It successfully deleted the ios, android, macos, and windows folders and regenerated them all from my prebuild template 🚀
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I've now implemented config plugins so that Expo Desktop Prebuild correctly handles the following React Native Windows files:
App.sln
App/MyApp.vcxproj
App.Package/Package.appxmanifest
App.Package/App.Package.wapproj
Still more to go, but getting closer to CNG for Windows! 🐢
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I also found a very relevant looking line of code in the Electron auto-updater source. I still don't see why it would stop being able to log (and work) after 100, as it should fall back to the zeroeth log again – but clearly log number 100 has some significance 🤔
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Visual Studio Code has been unable to auto-update for years – but only on my personal Mac, not my work Mac.
Today I worked out why. Once Electron's auto-updater hits 100 log files (for apps that use log rotation – many don't!) it silently stops being able to auto-update 🫠
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Jamie Birch retweeted
Two hours on a train without WiFi means reverse engineering the Liquid Glass...liquid...effect?
Reasonably simple API to work with: CASDFLayer, CASDFElementLayer and a CASDFEffect subclass, in this case CASDFFillEffect.
You can wrap up in a UIView subclass, overriding layerClass to play nicely with higher-level UIKit animation abstractions.
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Jamie Birch retweeted
theres literally 0 mobile development posts on my timeline, no Flutter, no SwiftUI, no jetpack compose, i hate it, this new algorithm sucks.
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Just as soon as regulators start to catch up with prediction markets, the concept of “opinion markets” emerges.
And you can be sure there will be prediction markets predicting on the opinion market!
I think you’re onto something, Lennart 😄
My feed is people shouting opinions at each other all day. Nobody has anything at stake, so nobody really listens.
It made me wonder: what if you had to put money behind your take?
Would we argue more honestly?
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Jamie Birch retweeted
New blogpost: Inkdrop Roadmap vol.6: Completed 🎉 — Now preparing for the official v6 release
I summarized what I accomplished along the roadmap and what came out of it beyond the plan 🙌
✅ The tech debt is now paid off
✅ Manpower is no longer the bottleneck for me
✅ The roadmap checklist
✅ Beyond the roadmap – so many QoL improvements
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The moment I manage to update a React Native Windows project file using Prebuild via Expo Desktop on-stream 🎙️
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Now streaming some Expo Desktop dev for the next 1-2 hours! 🎙️
Will be building some config plugins to bring Expo Prebuild support to React Native Windows.
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Jamie Birch retweeted
Here it is! A quick video of me changing the battery on my Late 2008 15" MacBook Pro. 🔋💻
Many might not remember that this model had a removable rear cover, allowing instant access to the battery and hard drive.
Clocked in at 18 seconds😅
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Interview time! 🎤
Nitro gets talked about mostly in terms of speed. In this interview, @mrousavy gets into the part that matters just as much: native state, stateful objects, Vision Camera, Nitro Image, and WebGPU textures ⬇️
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