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@notbrent.dev

Working on expo.dev, attempting to play guitar. Dogs.

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After these optimisations, our tests went from ~10 minutes down to ~3 minutes!

25.02.2026 00:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Accelerating continuous integration with Fingerprint, Repack in EAS Workflows Cut CI build times by up to 78% with Expo’s Fingerprint + Repack workflow. Skip native builds and ship faster with smarter automation.

I just optimised the heck out of my company's Maestro E2E tests with EAS workflows. I used a mix of repacking & a few other undocumented optimisations to Android Emulators. Here's what I've done. #expo #reactnative

25.02.2026 00:51 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Chain React 2026: Call for Speakers Chain React 2026 is coming in hot! The acclaimed US React Native conference returns this July β˜€οΈ This time, it's co-produced by Infinite Red AND Expo!...

Our CFP is OPEN πŸ”₯

Chain React 2026 needs speakers who can level up 500+ React Native devs in Portland this July!

All you need is a title and a strong idea. It takes 10 minutes to submit.

Deadline: March 18. We want to hear from you. 🎀

sessionize.com/chain-react-...

23.02.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

i want youtube and podcast apps to support audio processing plugins so i can filter out the unbearable but trendy smart person vocal crutch of repeating β€œyou know” (often abbreviated to something like β€œyeow”). i really would like to watch dario interviews but i cannot. note: i am mildly misophonic

12.02.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Huge thanks to @expo.dev for featuring our journey with DEPOT on their blog! Big thank you as well to @baumstumpf.bsky.social for the editorial support πŸ™
The path to success was built one step at a time - and those incremental improvements compounded to really pay off. πŸš€

05.02.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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TikTok alternative Skylight soars to 380K+ users after TikTok US deal finalized | TechCrunch Skylight, co-founded by CEO Tori White and CTO Reed Harmeyer, offers a built-in video editor; user profiles; support for likes, commenting, and sharing; and the ability for community curators to creat...

wow congrats @reedharmeyer.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/t...

26.01.2026 22:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Expo SDK 55 Beta is now available - Expo Changelog Learn about the changes, how to try it out, and how to give feedback.

Expo SDK 55 beta is out now πŸ§ͺ (RN 0.83.1 + React 19.2)

β™’ Legacy Architecture removed
β™’ New default template (Native Tabs + /src/app)
β™’ Hermes v1 opt-in
β™’ Hermes bytecode diffing for smaller OTA updates
β™’ More native Router features + better β€œExpo in native apps” support

expo.dev/changelog/sd...

22.01.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

llms now seem to be good enough to build side projects that i never would have otherwise bothered to build. this is cool

18.01.2026 22:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

seriously how did this thing ship. it fails on half of my prompts and now won't even open at all

14.01.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

claude is good / claude desktop is terrible

14.01.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ice cream is underrated

14.01.2026 02:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history

12.01.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 641 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 136
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if you’re in montreal just drop in to their physical location! looks like it’s in stock both online and in store. i, a random stranger on the internet that is also from canada, have bought many things from moogaudio and they are great :)

29.12.2025 18:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

one thing to notice re: price difference with other mixers - i had original l6 for a year and resold it on marketplace, it was very easy to sell for $315 cad. they hold their value pretty well, less expensive mixers may not

29.12.2025 17:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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i see in your profile you’re in quebec, maybe check out moogaudio. i’m not in any way affiliated although i’m aware this reads as an elaborate ad i assure you it isn’t, lol. it looks like you can get it with 10% discount on their boxing week sale

29.12.2025 17:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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here’s the l6 max in my desk. this has mic, my guitar, pedalboard (stereo), and three stereo synths connected. still room for one more haha. also, connected to computer via usb so i can use it as an interface. master out goes to monitors, monitor out to headphones, sub out to a sampler

29.12.2025 17:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

actually normal l6 (sans max) would also be plenty for your use case

29.12.2025 17:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

zoom l6 max should do the trick with a smaller footprint

29.12.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

how did you learn?

20.12.2025 00:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

(i may not recall correctly)

10.12.2025 01:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

iirc the newest one does

10.12.2025 01:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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How Lingvano scales sign language education to 4 million learners with Expo Lingvano teaches sign languages to millions with immersive lessons & real time practice. See how their small team builds a cross platform learning app on Expo.

4 million users worldwide
4.9 stars with 111,000 ratings on iOS
4.8 stars with 63,000 ratings on Android

This is the kind of app you want to learn from. Check out the new guest post from the Lingvano team about their award winning app: expo.dev/blog/scaling...

02.12.2025 16:29 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

one neat thing to try out is printing a lamp! they can look quite nice. you will be able to do some really cool stuff by combining your woodworking skills with a printer

27.11.2025 19:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

which one did you go for? i got a bambu p1s this summer and really liked it, ended up upgrading to p2s with ams. lots of useful things you can do with it, but i need to dive more into actually creating the models. so far i’ve just directly printed or slightly sliced up others as needed

27.11.2025 19:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
An illustration of how the new reporting system works. When reporting a post, you select a category and then choose a specific reason within that category. These more specific reporting reasons help our moderation team address issues with better accuracy.

An illustration of how the new reporting system works. When reporting a post, you select a category and then choose a specific reason within that category. These more specific reporting reasons help our moderation team address issues with better accuracy.

v1.110 is live!

We’ve expanded post-reporting options from 5 β†’ 39. This gives you more precise ways to flag issues and strengthens the signals our safety systems rely on. Clearer reports mean better moderation and higher-quality conversations across Bluesky. Learn more: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

19.11.2025 16:58 πŸ‘ 3448 πŸ” 564 πŸ’¬ 168 πŸ“Œ 94

i use β€œgood night” as a command for setting lights to reading levels. every few times i say this, it responds in a very sinister tone

18.11.2025 16:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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CSS Grid by intergalacticspacehighway Β· Pull Request #1865 Β· facebook/yoga Why? CSS grid provides us more control to position children in a two-dimensional layout system. It works as a complimemtary system to Flexbox. Official spec for more details/usage. There are a few...

πŸ†• This PR from @nishan.dev adds CSS grid support to react native πŸ™Œ

It's not possible to overstate how massive this is for all of us. Future generations will celebrate Nishan Bende Day 🐐

github.com/facebook/yog...

17.11.2025 20:23 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

hey there! thanks for bringing this up. i wasn’t familiar with this personally (maybe it’s not common in canada) but looked it up and see what you mean. would β€œgo mobile native” be better? we don’t like the word β€œnative” because it’s imprecise, but it’s widely used and understood in software context

15.11.2025 11:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

if you do really want to do this i can forward this to someone on the quest team!

15.11.2025 10:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the only other metroid game i played was prime so maybe my opinion isn’t reflective of what a true metroid fan would think, but dread was one of the few games i’ve really enjoyed and played to the end in recent years

15.11.2025 10:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0