Doug Lowder

Curate your own newspaper with RSS Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

How to Build 2D Game-Style Physics with Matter.js and React Native Skia Learn how to build real-time 2D physics with Matter.js, Skia, and Reanimated in a React Native + Expo app. Perfect for games, simulations, or fun UIs.

🎮 Build 2D physics-based visuals in your React Native app with Matter.js + Skia.

In this new blog post, @wa2goose.bsky.social shows how to simulate motion, collisions, and interaction—all using Expo, with TypeScript and zero native config.

Link + starter project inside 👇
expo.dev/blog/build-2...

🥳 Very excited to co-host Chain React next summer with the good people of @infinite.red!

See you in Rip City next July!

Small strawberry blonde goat bellied up to the bar next to a human who is enjoying a beer

You never know who is going to take the bar stool next to you at The Beer Garden

YouTube video by Software Mansion React Native Wallet | The Cross-Platform Way to Add Cards to Apple & Google Wallet

Introducing react-native-wallet, built in collaboration with Expensify! 🚀

💳 A better way to add payment cards to Apple & Google Wallet
🔁 Truly cross-platform support for iOS & Android
⚡ Lightweight, dev-friendly, and easy to integrate
🔐 Secure, compliant, and production-ready in-app provisioning

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Goat Toddlers

I've finally open-sourced all the demos showcased at App.js Conf

Here's a thread 🧵

I have built a universal component library using React Native Web and used Lighthouse for accessibility testing. It worked well.

Aria attributes really help getting things correct regardless of DOM structure.

Now stuff like Expo’s `'use dom'` should make this easier to get right.

Damn that is a LOT of React context 😃

What the Supreme Court Knew in 1803 And Why it Matters Today

What the Supreme Court Knew in 1803
and Why it Matters Today open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

TFW you find your web page that went up in 1997 during a previous career -- is still up! 😀 aether.lbl.gov/www/projects...

The EPA Plans to ‘Reconsider’ Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos President Donald Trump has supported use of asbestos in the past and blamed the mob for its bad reputation.

I have personally known people who were killed by mesothelioma. This administration keeps doubling down on its idiocy. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Congratulations! #productplacement

i'm surprised by how low energy and farcical that whole military parade situation was. I was expecting Moscow 1945 and we got Spirit Halloween instead.

Wood Pellet Mills Are Prone to Catching Fire. Why Build Them in California? Facilities that make wood pellets have a track record of catching alight. Yet there are plans to build several near Yosemite’s tinderbox forests.

Facilities that make wood pellets have a track record of catching alight. Yet there are plans to build several near Yosemite’s tinderbox forests. www.wired.com/story/in-cal...

React Native Radio - RNR 334 - React Native MacOS with Saad Najmi Saad Najmi from Microsoft joins Jamon, Robin, and Mazen to talk React Native macOS—how it works, where it shines, and what’s still missing.

🖤❤️ RNR 334 ❤️🖤

This week: React Native on desktop?

@saadnajmi.bsky.social from Microsoft joins our hosts to talk about bringing React Native to macOS! They talk about what works, what doesn’t, and what’s next.

Don't miss it!
infinite.red/react-native...

We all saw what the hell went on.

What the hell are you going to do about it?

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

If this is how they treat sitting members of Congress, mayors, and judges—people simply trying to serve—how do you think they’ll treat you?!?

This is deliberate. And it’s all about control and intimidation toward those who dare hold them accountable.

Enough is enough. (2/2)

I guess we got their attention

My speech-to-speech app uses Expo UI, which means I get Liquid Glass for free :)

Also unsaid: the AI has to be corrected a LOT… typically 20 to 30 percent of its output is wrong, from my recent experience

Hey big law firms: It does not pay to capitulate.

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

The Expo team at the Appjs Conf after party.

🤗 Hearts are feeling full after another wonderful App.js Conf in Kraków.

Thank you to the incomparable @swmansion.com team for curating this time for React Native devs to meaningfully connect and share ideas and learn from each other.

We appreciate you!

❄️ Freezing the Legacy Architecture · reactwg react-native-new-architecture · Discussion #290 tl;dr: Starting on Monday, June 2nd, we are freezing the legacy architecture codebase: we will no longer accept PRs against the legacy architecture, nor will we develop new features for it. Startin...

Big step towards React Native moving fully to the new architecture! github.com/reactwg/reac...

Tablet support

Dan says it better than I ever could… bsky.app/profile/dana...