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iOS Developer, gaming fanatic, professional nerd

Dublin, Ireland
Joined July 2010
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Christmas has come early, Coinbase is ditching React Native! Despite giving me nothing but trouble and having to uninstall/reinstall more times than any other app, Coinbase was always used as THE example of production RN. Those days are finally over
Coinbase is going native too. Judging by how many teams reached out after our native announcement, expect more of these soon.
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My dumb ass thought this was going to be a live video session 😂 #iphoneDuoQandA #UIKit
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Instahyre is back baby! v2.0 launch is here! Heres our marketing email listing all the reasons you should go to google, type out the name of our company and hit search, because our marketing team forgot to include a link to the platform Hell yeah!
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Can not express in words how much I hate the temple mechanic in @pathofexile 2. It never works Trying to build a chain, destabilisation took out a lvl 3 room in the middle of the chain, leaving a weird broken path. This is exhausting
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Latest cross-platform discourse: moving from webviews to native, is not moving to native … jfc
“Rebuilding natively” feels a bit engagement baity, when the app was originally already native. Most views were just webviews inside
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Hot take: the modern web is exactly why users prefer native mobile apps. We shouldn’t be trying to make mobile apps like this
I hate HATE H. A. T. E. SSR
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Replying to @ASalvadorini
@ASalvadorini Adaptiveness. Short tweets ain't really the place to list/discuss it all. Briefly, you can see from videos on the developer site with stuff like below, where the native tabbar, navigationbar, tool bars, dynamic island, etc, all merge into a new control bar ...
Replying to @simon_mcl
I may have missed the adaptiveness of the native controls. Mind showing me a screenshot, before and after? Also, are you talking about adaptiveness or responsiveness? As if a layout is responsive, that should suffice, no need to be adaptive as well
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Whatever your/my opinions of Flutter are, Flutter choosing to not leverage the inbuilt controls and rebuild from scratch, having to deal with all of this by hand, was a monumentally bad architectural decision ...
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"Flutter has done big screens before" completely misses the point of what has changed. Its not a bigger screen, its another new design language, that your app has to support at the same time. Flutter folk missing this, honestly, speaks volumes about the issue at hand
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Oh look another “purely political” migration from React Native to Native. Nature is healing, Native is back
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Flutter made a monumentally bad architectural decision to build a custom UI layer instead of using the inbuilt controls. The new iPhone Duo layout was designed with the native controls in mind. All adapt out of the box Native will always deliver the best user experience
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I used to love cross-platform tech in college/university. Used it for my final year project. The second ... THE SECOND ... I dipped into production apps everything exploded Cross-platform, at least at the UI layer, I firmly believe is simply a no go
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Tezos stackexchange election now open for self nominations. Tick Tock
After a lot of back and forth, the Tezos stackexchange is finally hosting a new election for moderators. I won't be running again, so some folks from the community to need to step up. Nominations open in ~4 hours, minimum requirements apply: tezos.stackexchange.com/elec…
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After a lot of back and forth, the Tezos stackexchange is finally hosting a new election for moderators. I won't be running again, so some folks from the community to need to step up. Nominations open in ~4 hours, minimum requirements apply: tezos.stackexchange.com/elec…
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@ktorn too incase you want to run again
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Um @github actions are not back up and running without incident today. Job stuck queuing with no way to cancel
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Pushing a minor change seems to trigger, but now I have one permanently stuck in queue I can't get rid of. If that ever does run it will push something old to TestFlight and alert everyone to a new update. Ugh
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