Cross-platform engineer trying to make native app dev as pleasant as web dev
Tokyo-to, Japan
- Tweets 13,950
- Following 848
- Followers 5,926
- Likes 28,068
I went to great efforts to photograph the cake properly
My girlfriend baked me a surprise birthday cake with all my favourite stuff on it 😍
It's got Node.js, Expo, Callstack, Microsoft, NativeScript, and React Native, all in marzipan!
Close-ups attached 🧵
ALT A pleased Jamie holding his surprise birthday cake, which is adorned with marzipan logos for Node.js, Microsoft, Expo, Callstack, NativeScript, and React Native.
14
1,184
The Microsoft slice.
It's four layers of gluten-free (I'm 34) Victoria sponge, spread with clotted cream and raspberry jam. And everything else is marzipan 🥹
It goes without saying, the cake is very tasty, and I'm very thankful!
4
6
384
This is the side where you can best see Node.js and Expo🤩
Blown away by the freehand Node.js logo – this is all marzipan, by the way, the MacBook included! No fondant.
1
12
417
My girlfriend baked me a surprise birthday cake with all my favourite stuff on it 😍
It's got Node.js, Expo, Callstack, Microsoft, NativeScript, and React Native, all in marzipan!
Close-ups attached 🧵
ALT A pleased Jamie holding his surprise birthday cake, which is adorned with marzipan logos for Node.js, Microsoft, Expo, Callstack, NativeScript, and React Native.
25
2
103
5,615
Jamie Birch retweeted
Synchronous TextField coming soon in Expo UI!
This would enable JS controlled synchronous flicker free TextInputs with React native.
16
11
356
45,459
All this could be overlooked if the code were open-source and we could inspect it for ourselves. But on top of their pathetic efforts to document any of its behaviour, it's completely closed-source and proprietary.
1
418
So fucking annoyed with how piss-poor Apple docs are on anything related to audio systems.
- What thread does this callback run on?
- What are all the error states?
- How do you recover from them?
- What's the event lifecycle?
- How do you clean up resources?
- Any example code?
2
13
1,363
Wait, do Flutter error logs really look like this in 2026?
You have overlapping text in the stack trace and just accept it?
We’re decoupling the Material and Cupertino design libraries from the core Flutter framework 🙌
Decoupling will empower the Flutter community to contribute to Material and Cupertino WITHOUT having to worry about how your contribution could become a regression in the framework.
12
62
14,606
Supporting Widevine directly in Chromium is real helpful. Not that I agree with DRM conceptually, but when I was building Smart TV web apps, it sucked when I could only test on genuine TV browsers instead of desktop, purely due to DRM.
Makes more TV possible in Electron, too!
1
2
914
“#1 best seller in bird biology”
okay but surely that’s quite a narrow category of books right
3
885
A discerning engineer pointing out how a dev’s latitude and longitude values are unreasonably precise for URL params
4
47
5,627
An opensource and cross-platform re-implementation of SwiftUI 👏
I believe @Baconbrix might like this!
A share of current architecture of OpenSwiftUI.
🔴 Red comp are Darwin-only.
🟢 Green and 🟡 Yellow comp are cross-platform (light green indicates WIP).
Thanks to the amazing work from @jcmosc and @tyxu233, OpenSwiftUI can now run on macOS without any private frameworks.
2
1
14
3,539