Cross-platform engineer trying to make native app dev as pleasant as web dev
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Jamie Birch retweeted
Google confirms AirDrop is coming to all Android devices
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The web platform is so powerful. Enjoy implementing this in AppKit or UIKit
`border-shape` can handle both insets and outsets, so you can do effects like this chevron nav (corner-shape can't do both).
This means you get a perfectly-wrapping focus ring without needing to manage z-index or having it partially covered due to overlap.
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Same as with the Pokémon Showdown rewrite in Rust, I think the real enabler here is the existence of a meticulously thorough pre-existing test suite.
Many software problems, particularly novel ones, are not in a problem space that is easily testable in the first place.
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“With full reference to the GCC codebase, please create a C compiler that passes the GCC test suite”
*two weeks later*
“It cost us HOW MUCH to plagiarise GCC?!”
Anthropic had 16 AI agents build a C compiler from scratch. 100k lines, compiles the Linux kernel, $20k, 2 weeks.
To put that in perspective GCC took thousands of engineers over 37 years to build. (Granted from 1987 - however) One researcher and 16 AI agents just built a compiler that passes 99% of GCC's own torture test suite, compiles FFmpeg, Redis, PostgreSQL, QEMU and runs Doom.
They say they "(mostly) walked away." But that "mostly" is doing heavy lifting.
No human wrote code but the researcher constantly redesigned tests, built CI pipelines when agents broke each other's work, and created workarounds when all 16 agents got stuck on the same bug.
The human role didn't disappear. It shifted from writing code to engineering the environment that lets AI write code.
I don’t know how you could make the point AI is hitting a wall.
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Please lend Hirbod a hand with this fundraiser, he’s a swell guy (and cracked React Native dev), and I wish only the best for the important people in his life.
This is really hard for me to write.
Nima has been one of my closest friends for over 20 years. His wife Lourensa (30) has just been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer (T-LBL). Chemo has already started, and the coming months are medically dangerous and incredibly heavy for their family.
Two young kids. A newborn. A mother fighting for her life.
If you can support them in any way, I would be deeply grateful. Even sharing helps more than you think.
gofund.me/d3bc15126
English description is available on the page.
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I just heard about Flutter’s Great Thread Merge, completed on May 2025.
It moves Dart execution to run on the UI thread, allowing synchronous manipulation of the UI from Dart.
Along with Dart FFI, Flutter is starting to look an awful lot like NativeScript! 🤩
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I asked a question on StackOverflow for the first time in years and actually got a far higher quality response than any LLM would give
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Had to go take my laptop with me out of the house so I closed a few Electron apps to make it a little lighter
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It's a bug I reported back in September 2025 which has only gotten worse with the transition from iOS 18 to 26.
bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi…
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Another year, WebKit continues to be the sole blocker for developing my iOS ebook reader.
Left: A fixed-position <div> failing to render for no obvious reason.
Right: The same element magically appearing again upon disabling `writing-mode: vertical-rtl`.
Bugzilla 298992.
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I was keeping up for a bit, as it overlaps with many of the techniques I had to use to generate a JavaScript language projection for the iOS SDK, but I tapped out once Bryce busted out the decompiler 😅
youtu.be/SuQGQ1vh9k0?si=-t_s…
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I have never been so humbled at iOS dev as I have been when watching @brycebostwick1 dance between Obj-C and Swift, writing assembly to swizzle every method in the iOS SDK to implement his own main thread checker
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If you think people are rude on GitHub Issues, try reading some game reviews on Newgrounds.
> i played five minutes of this so-called game and was amazed at how you had improved. but its not that hard to improve on garbage
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A lot of devs and creatives in the '90s and '00s started out with Flash. It was so simple a kid could use it.
I was making all sorts of stuff in it from 11 years old (pictured below). It was my gateway into digital art.
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The actual death of Flash.
Although Flash has been effectively dead as a browser embed since the iPhone (save for revival projects like Ruffle), you could at least author animations in it and export to MP4 or something.
But to think that Adobe would kill the authoring tool? 🥺
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Jamie Birch retweeted
How do you still find dev content that is not related to AI?
It's been hard lately 😅
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