Cross-platform engineer trying to make native app dev as pleasant as web dev

Tokyo-to, Japan
Vladimir's epic PR that migrates Microsoft's fork of Hermes (for use with React Native Windows) to be based on Static Hermes 👏 As part of this PR, Hermes Windows gains support for Intl! Fully ECMA-402 compliant, and able to use bundled ICU, system ICU, or a host-supplied ICU.
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I've submitted my third talk proposal for App.js Conf 📨
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Nick Gerleman's nine-part PR to add CSS Grid support to Yoga. Seems like all parts are based onto main and independently mergable 😲
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Also this:
I should be able to open VS Code in my React Native project and be able to breakpoint-debug my CocoaPods Ruby scripts and my Groovy gradle scripts via a Debug Terminal with no special extra setup. This thing right here is the greatest thing you guys ever built.
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My wishlist for the direction VS Code should evolve. A single no-config IDE for all cross-platform app development.
I want to be able to open VS Code on my React Native project and be able to code C++, Swift, Java, Kotlin, and Obj-C with full language service, breakpoint-debugging, and format-on-save with *no* special setup. Free me from Xcode and Android Studio and I can use Copilot more.
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"The open source AI code editor" 🫤
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Jamie Birch retweeted
It was super fun to watch this all get built up live today! With this, React Native Mac apps could have immediate access to all native APIs 😱
I just got NativeScript Node-API working inside an Expo macOS app for the first time! 🥳 Write Expo / React Native apps for macOS, with full access to the macOS SDK via JavaScript! Coded this demo together with @jmeistrich on the train back to Tokyo 🚄
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Replying to @jmeistrich
Basically every part of the stack found a way to break during this experiment. The React Native macOS CLI, Metro, Codegen, TypeScript, Babel, autolinking, Expo Core Modules, you name it. Was a miracle to make it this far in 3 hours. Will all become smoother in time!
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Replying to @jmeistrich
Heck, I'll just note down the necessary change inside node_modules before I forget. I had to make this change to node_modules/@nativescript/macos-node-api/package.json because React Native macOS codegen was ending up trying to JSON-parse the index.js file.
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Replying to @jmeistrich
The repo is here, though it won't run out of the box as-is – I had to do some surgery inside node_modules to get this far. Some of the necessary changes were to package.json files, which patch-package doesn't support patching. Will upstream in time. github.com/shirakaba/expo-ma…
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I just got NativeScript Node-API working inside an Expo macOS app for the first time! 🥳 Write Expo / React Native apps for macOS, with full access to the macOS SDK via JavaScript! Coded this demo together with @jmeistrich on the train back to Tokyo 🚄
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"We're hiring a recruiter" – ultimate bootstrapping problem
Sakana AIの「社会実装」をより加速させるため、新たにRecruiterを募集します!🐟 sakana.ai/careers/#recruiter 新規プロダクト開発が進む中、未踏のソリューションを創るEngineerやPMを積極採用中です。ダイレクトソーシングを軸に候補者と直接向き合い、コアチームを組成していただく重要な役割です。 テクノロジー業界での採用経験を活かし、私たちの成長エンジンの中心を担ってくださる方をお待ちしています!🚀
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I have always wondered what the productivity inflection point of solo dev vs. team of devs is. Alignment and code review is a significant time sink. Why create an agency when you could work as a solo freelancer? Why task four people on an app when you could task one?
Replying to @staysaasy
I think it's mostly speed, I don't want to work with other people because by definition we will vary in opinion and so a large time is spent trying to align in opinion when I could just ship solo and go 100x faster
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My friend casually setting up a petit data centre in the Japanese countryside for his CI/CD SaaS, connected via Starlink. Three M4 Mac Minis. Faster than any macOS GitHub Actions runner (even macos-latest-xlarge is only M2). Check out @open_ci_io if that sounds good to you!
無事、OpenCIデータセンターのMac Mini x 4 + スターリンクの設置が終わりました! @flog_kt お手伝い本当にありがとうございました!!!!!! 最高のCI/CDまで着実に一歩一歩進んできています。明日もがんばります! #CICD #DevOps #Flutter #OSS #OpenCI
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WebKit finally implemented this?! It lands in Safari 26.2 🫨 Hot dog! This is fantastic news for my ebook reader app. I’ll now be able to properly save reading progress when the user stops scrolling, rather than having to use flaky poll-based logic like a barbarian.
Know when users finish scrolling 📜 The scrollend event fires when scrolling completes - after gestures end and scroll position stops updating. Perfect for lazy loading, analytics, or finalizing UI updates. Learn how it works 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/…
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Swift's edit-time compilation is so slow that I've made final code changes to a PR, seen it's fine and merged it, only to find the next day that the nightly build has broken due to Swift compilation failures. It was the core reason I moved from native iOS dev to React Native.
Replying to @PrajwalTomar_
Swift code does not compile or update anywhere close to “instantly”. Xcode must run locally to compile the code.
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Pre-AI senior devs are an invaluable resource
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Just a little React Native macOS app running Expo
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