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

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"Since it will take up loads of time to load this page, we're going to show you our Pokémon 20 by 20" Goes to show how slow internet was back then!
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Jumping back a bit again, I just found this Pokémon fan site we made in 2000, and it looks satisfactorily nineties, with actual honest-to-god "under construction" GIFs
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By 2004, we'd migrated from HTML4 to Flash and things got serious
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By 2005, we'd kicked our older brother off the site and assumed the names "Webmaster" and "Thunderorb"
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Here's my "POKe'mon LOVERS' WEBRING". It starts in black, and once you choose your starter Pokémon, the page changes to the colour of the one you chose, with complete disregard for web accessibility
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Our site map, or what we called the "all websites deck page" for some reason
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Thanks to the Wayback machine, I was able to dig up the website I made with my brothers in Claris Homepage at eight years old. It's a perfect time capsule of year 2000 web design. There are no rules and everything is exploding with creativity and fun.
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This proposal for Borrow and Inout types is the perfect Trojan horse to get Swift developers into Rust
Swift 即将引入 Borrow 和 Inout 两个类型,能力进一步向 Rust 看齐。这个设计很 Swift,渐进式披露的能力,不需要的时候完全不会影响当前项目。 github.com/swiftlang/swift-e…
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Confirmed that I hear the word "and" in my head while I'm typing "&&"
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I have no use for this but it sounds like a fun project
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2013 is probably also right around when GitHub stopped testing on Safari
GitHub's performance in 2013. The web used to be so fast.
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Don't miss out on the chance!
Our last but not least RN Paradise '26 workshop lead – @tjzeldev! You might know him from Reanimated and Worklets, bringing multi-threading to React Native. Besides that, he’s a low-level programming and honey bee enthusiast 🐝 Check out the full event details ⬇️
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This is basically how I debug CocoaPods scripts, because I can’t get VS Code’s integrated breakpoint debugging working in Ruby birchdocs.tokyo/dev/ruby/deb…
use __builtin_debugtrap() to trigger a breakpoint programmatically
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NativePHP Live - 13th Mar 2026 nitter.catsarch.com/i/broadcasts/1nxeLyBzM…
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You know you can schedule a call with App Review, right? developer.apple.com/events/v…
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Excited to share that @GoogleChrome will soon be coming to ARM64 Linux devices! Thanks to @nvidia for the awesome product & engineering partnership to bring one of the fastest and safest browsers to some of the most powerful computers in the world! 🛠️🕸️🤝 More at blog.chromium.org/2026/03/br…
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This is incredible, but to be honest, I could use some help with maintenance. I appreciate sponsorships, but unfortunately this does not magically create more time for me to work on it. CSS is evolving very quickly and it's difficult to keep up with all the new features as a solo dev. I'm sorry if my slowness has affected you. Now that Lightning CSS is a core ecosystem dependency, I need to find a way to improve this. I'll be reaching out to each of these tools soon to try to bring on representatives as maintainers. And if you're interested in helping, please reach out as well. Hopefully we can get a good core team established and speed up the process a bit.
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Strangest thing I've ever seen. Just encountered a repo that ignores all files by default and treats gitignore as an opt-in system.
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