i bitch about it a lot but React Native is awesome. if you’re a native engineer you might feel skeptical, but it isn’t a lowest common denominator crossplatform abstraction. rather, i like to think of it as a scripting orchestration layer for platform views (which you can still write). like in games
these two illustrations are fantastic and are the "aha moment" of atproto RE:
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Emily Liu (@emilyliu.me)
While Bluesky looks like other social apps on the surface, it’s actually quite different. It’s an open network. I blogged about it here: https...
pie RE:
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Molly White (@molly.wiki)
(For context: Instagram prohibits links in post text. This, plus the incentive to inflate comments, has led to the proliferation of tools where cre...
not the kind of function name you’d like to see in a flamechart https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:fpruhuo22xkm5o7ttr2ktxdo&cid=bafkreieihb2n33lpe23piuvcelrkmul5fjbn2sp4vggvwppvbrgz2mqqsa
fwiw i noticed this was possible almost accidentally and thought lets keep that RE:
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Hillel (@hillelwayne.com)
Bsky lets you preplan a REPLY thread, which makes it superior to Twitter
how is Okay Kaya not more popular
i know everyone’s tired of talking meta level but i’m really happy that i finally was able to cut over to posting just here. twitter felt pretty addictive even this spring and summer. but as our app got less wonky and we added features like quotes, it reached the good enough level for me personally
honestly i envy the confidence of meta notification emails. im still getting emails from a few cross-company Workplace groups and the subject is literally “Dan, respond to your 11 group updates” RE:
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Bluesky
distributed systems man. why do we do this to ourselves
this thing in programming when you’re not sure where to properly fix the problem and then you think about it like, where is the first point that bad data enters the system. what it is the entry point for the confusion. this is where you mend it