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I've been hoping for years that someone would build an event sourcing engine for local-first apps, and now @schickling.dev has done it! Hooray! livestore.dev

Announcing React Native ExecuTorch v0.4.0! 🎉 🧠 More LLMs – Add diverse LLMs to your app 🔧 Tool calling capabilities – Let LLMs interact dynamically with APIs & tools 🔍 Text Embeddings – Convert text to vectors for semantic tasks 🖼️ Image Segmentation — Create masks for objects in images And more!

Big week for React Native coming up. Still time to get tickets for App.js! appjs.co

I'm trying to make the fastest Mac app you've ever seen. So of course I'm building it in javascript with React Native. It'll be an app for managing Github issues, PRs, discussions. 🔌 Local first 🛜 Works offline ⚡️ Instant interactions 💾 App is 50mb, 100mb ram 👐 Open source

Every 10-20 years, a breakthrough technology promises non-developers to finally create software without needing to hire programmers. So far, every such technology resulted in the need for more devs… expert in this NEW technology (or knowing how to fix it up). Every. Time.

technical highlights: - @expo.dev SDK 53 / RN 0.79 / React 19 - android edge-to-edge mode (thanks @zoontek.me!) - new `Select` menus - new Edit Profile on web + various other dialogs - completely reworked email flow (shoutout @esb.lol) - new img crop lib handmade by @hailey.at - big sheet bugfix

After RFK posted this pic and declared the Caps "my new hometown team," Washington lost 3 straight and have now been eliminated from the NHL playoffs.

This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10

i know I keep talking about this, but using bluesky on my android with react natives new architecture is so much better. can't wait to ship this.

@eva.bsky.world - do your best grok impersonation

the rehearsal season 2 is the best tv i’ve ever seen, i’m in awe that something this absurd and good exists

request for opinions: saying "please" in error messages and warnings for dev tools - is this inviting and friendly, or insincere and possibly even passive aggressive? or perhaps neither of those, and just unnecessary and inefficient? or something else?

🤯 Expo recently crossed 1.5M weekly downloads for the first time! That’s 50% more than our peak at the end of 2024. Thank you to every developer building with Expo 🙌

What have I done 😅

This is how long it takes to load data from your @prisma.io Postgres DB using Accelerate Stay tuned, video drops tomorrow! If you are a channel member you can watch the video now 🤫👉 youtu.be/53VXR_x3A0w Learn more about prisma accelerate here: prisma.io/accelerate/?...

Me last year: “Politicians will use advanced AI deep fakes to manipulate public opinion!” Politicians: * use images sloppily modified in MS Paint by cropping or adding tattoos in Comic Sans to manipulate public opinion * Me: well, nevertheless