Saad Najmi

Is that.. dual arches as cat ears?

Hi

Where are you extracting all the class names to?

It was fun to talk to y'all! 🥳

Welcome to the annual meat grinder :D

Is it like a, population center isn often where civil unrest happens kinda thing? I know that’s why a lot of places move their capitals

Curious, why?

If you want a React Native copy of Raycast, sol.ospfranco.com is cool

OK that was pretty cool!

What’s the thing here? A cop with a cat on it?

I’m quite fond of sharks

Giving away two wonderful books by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social - The Third Bear and Hummingbird Salamander!

To win, repost + comment your favorite animal.
I'll pick someone next Friday 6/13 - shipping paid & open to intl.

**You do not have to follow me**

Hi! I need to check bluesky more lol.
It’s actually the only social media left installed on my newest attempt to limit doomscrolling

Thanks also to @kwasniew.ski who helped a lot with the proposal and implementation! I’m glad it’s getting used :)

We do so much brown field development internally (think React Native task panes / floating windows in Microsoft Office) that I forget how performant a blank app can be 😅, thanks @jayz.us for trying it out!

Hi!

Color photo of Stephen Hawking. He is seated in his wheelchair, smiling at someone to his right. Hawking has dark hair and is wearing glasses. He has on a dark blue jacket, light plaid shirt, and a patterned blue tie.

Stephen Hawking was born #OTD in 1942. He developed theorems with Penrose that determine when general relativity produces singularities, established classical laws of black hole mechanics, and hypothesized that quantum effects cause black holes to radiate. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

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I start work again tomorrow and I already have two presentations + a rush bug fix to get in this week, welcome 2025 🫣

2+ weeks of vacation was pretty nice though 😄

Eh this took me like 3 days, mostly to learn all the new stuff. But yeah that’s what holidays are for! :D

Can it be done in React Native? - Season 1 - YouTube Implementing features from real-world apps in React Native

I’m just riding the bandwagon

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I was too lazy to use the same photo 😅

🧑‍🎄 Node.js now supports TypeScript by default 🤯 🎄

Apple demo code and ChatGPT are surprisingly useful!

Ripple Effect Shader with react-native-skia Ripple Effect Shader with react-native-skia. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

And many thanks to the wonderful people at Google for creating Skia, and Shopify / @wcandillon.bsky.social
for bringing it to React Native! Finally, here's a gist with my sample code.

gist.github.com/Saadnajmi/9d...

Create custom visual effects with SwiftUI - WWDC24 - Videos - Apple Developer Discover how to create stunning visual effects in SwiftUI. Learn to build unique scroll effects, rich color treatments, and custom...

Many thanks to Apple for creating such a great API, along with super amazing docs and videos to go along with it :D

developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

Can it be done in React Native, yes!
At WWDC 2024, Apple added a new API for creating custom UI effects using Metal shaders. I wanted to see if you could do the same with React Native. With react-native-skia, you can! Left is the Apple demo, right is skia on react-native-macos 😃

Congrats!!

This truly was a generational game. I didn’t think I could feel such awe again in my life, especially from a screen!

OK with some effort, I got the rest of the examples to render! The existing test app uses react-native-screens, which has no macOS support yet 😥, but react-native-test-app has a nice feature to let you register and present ex's natively! Maybe this should be a sidebar though 🤔

One thing I’m curious about is hosting a skia canvas in a transparent borderless window so you can get the effect of drawing stuff on top of your desktop!