Tomek Czajecki

UIs at @expo

[Tomek Czajecki @tchayen]

@hirbod @felippewick @cnakazawa fbtee is so good and works so well with Expo apps

[Tomek Czajecki @tchayen]

Amazing week. Was great to see everyone! If you missed it - here are some great pictures from @jmeistrich

[Jay Meistrich @jmeistrich]

I have 181 great photos from @appjsconfof all you beautiful people 😍

Please RT to help get it to everyone in the photos, and tag anyone I missed. I'll post some highlights, but there's tons more in the album.

Starting with @KimChouard's incredible DJ set at the afterparty!

[Krzysztof Magiera @kzzzf]

In case you ever wondered how to scan that QR code with your Simulator 😉

[Tomek Czajecki @tchayen]

@Baconbrix 🫡

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

This is such a good post. https://t.co/IdmAnh18Nt

[Tomek Czajecki @tchayen]

@grabbou @appjsconf 👋

[Tomek Czajecki @tchayen]

It's App.js week again. Who is already in town?

[Tomek Czajecki @tchayen]

@TesterArmy @expo Huge

[Tomek Czajecki @tchayen]

@thymikee Exciting! My current biggest pain point with agent-device (or tbh anything that controls iOS sim) is how slow everything is

[Tomek Czajecki @tchayen]

The moment you see claude calling git reflog and you know it's going to be a fun rest of the session

[Expo @expo]

We just cut the SDK 56 beta 😅

◆ 50%+ faster iOS builds (precompiled XCFrameworks) ◆ 40% faster cold starts on Android
◆ Expo UI is stable
◆ iOS widgets are stable
◆ expo-router rebuilt from scratch
◆ Inline native modules
◆ Brownfield multi-app support

The obvious themes are speed and stability. But there are a lot of other interesting changes (like Expo Router decoupling itself form React Navigation). Get all the nuance and detail in the changelog below ↓

[Tomek Czajecki @tchayen]

Just caught Claude trying to dump session tokens to an object passed around the whole web app. Ability to review PRs remains a competitive advantage.

[Tomek Czajecki @tchayen]

@pariscestchiant @luciascarlet I was looking for something like this

[Tomek Czajecki @tchayen]

@tanishqk I "switched" to it when it became a default. Don't see much difference. It doesn't see to hit the plan usage limits faster and doesn't seem to be smarter/better in the things I use it for. Just more of the same.

[Tomek Czajecki @tchayen]

@peterpme Tabular numbers are the best. I use them almost always for any UIs nowadays

[Tomek Czajecki @tchayen]

@adnansahinovich @mrousavy We did it when you had to be crazy to ship Expo in prod. Now you have to be crazy to not use Expo. One thing hasn’t changed - we do it because we love it.

[Tomek Czajecki @tchayen]

@satya164 @jamonholmgren I don’t even bother claiming free games from Epic. And I don’t remember when I was the last time I bought a PC game outside of Steam

[ゴールデンブヒ @goldenbuhi2020]

本日のお浸かり
皆さま　本日もおつかりさまです

[David Cramer @zeeg]

My brain is fried this week from trying to solve some of the complexity LLMs are generating to little success.

At this moment in time it definitely feels like writing software is _harder_ in many situations. More taxing mentally.

[Tomek Czajecki @tchayen]

@konstipaulus @birch_js Oh yes for LTR Latin I think HarfBuzz is an overkill. But for anything more I would definitely use it now (I thought I am the last person to give up on doing it from scratch but I looked at the problem space and thought do I really want to spend MONTHS researching this)