Just some good old jumping antics

Expo Router v55 is here, and it makes native navigation UI a first-class part of routing.

♢ New Stack API
♢ Native toolbars, native tabs, dynamic platform colors
♢ Apple zoom transitions, split view

Tour + examples: expo.dev/blog/expo-router-v55-mor...

achievement unlocked?

From my game’s biggest revenue day to patching production bugs and shipping EAS updates.

Building your own product is a rollercoaster 🙃

The Expo SDK crossed 3MM downloads per week a few days ago.

Our CFP is OPEN 🔥

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. 🎤

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”

For these Americans, that wasn’t true.

(Published Oct. 2025)

It's sort of funny when codex/claude give you time estimates of how long something should take, like 2 weeks, and then does that thing in 25 minutes.

This is the tech stack of my React Native game Tiny Harvest 🌾

App: React Native + @expo.dev
Backend: InstantDB
Server: NodeJS on Railway
Monitoring: Sentry
IAP: RevenueCat
Analytics: Posthog

+ The usual Claude Code / Cursor / Gemini / OpenAI for code & images 🔥

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying “your video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.

Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.

Well, here’s a link:

georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

A nurse. A researcher. A helper.

ICE is straight up executing people for no reason other than to create fear. We have to get it disbanded and prosecute the leadership and its thugs.

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

I think TestFlight reviews are taking longer than they used to because so many people are using Expo Launch.

bunx eas build -p ios --auto-submit

Enjoy your day.

Expo Modules API: Overview An overview of the APIs and utilities provided by Expo to develop native modules.

Have you tried using Expo Modules for library dev? docs.expo.dev/modules/over...

Day 21 - Advent Calendar 2025 - Galaxies.dev Day 21 of the React Native Advent Calendar 2025. This content will unlock on December 21, 2025.

🎄 Day 21 of the React Native Advent Calendar!
Behind today’s door: React Native Starter Stack 🎁

I’m sharing my opinionated React Native starter stack for 2026 with the exact tools I'd use if I started a new app today.

Open the door 👇
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Built a mention selector with @expo.dev Liquid Glass + Reanimated

What are the things you tried to do that you found the most confusing?

The way I think about RN is that it gives you access to the native platform layer — either w a JS API but also by letting you drop down when you want to. In my experience most large software systems in native code end up having a scripting system in them. But obviously do things the way you prefer !

What gives you an ick about it

🎄 Day 6 of the React Native Advent Calendar!
Behind today’s door: Expo Atlas 🧭

Use @Expo.dev Atlas to understand dependencies and optimize app performance!

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Interesting. Thanks for that info.

Besides debugging what other things are nicer

🎄 Day 5 of the React Native Advent Calendar!
Behind today’s door: AI-Assisted Coding 🧑‍💻

How do you get the most out of IDEs & LLMs in combination with React Native?

Open the door 👇
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Have you released a React Native app lately?

Let's do a December App Review video, so drop your app links 👇

NuTrak needed iOS and Android without double work.

We used React Native and one shared codebase.

Fast delivery. Native feel. Easier updates.

#MobileApps #StellarTechWorks