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phil 🫠 @_philpl

kitten.sh on πŸ¦‹ β€’ dev tools at @expo 𝝠 β€’ πŸ—» n 1 GraphQL/TS/React projects β€’ πŸ”¨ gql.tada, urql β€’ πŸ™ github.com/kitten & tangled.sh/@kitten.sh

Joined July 2012
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been 2 years but @JoviDeC and I just closed out 20 gql.tada issues (faster turbo typegen, larger repo support, typed readResult for tests, LSP tweaks, ...) big release, but same conclusion: the GraphQL TS DX of gql.tada is quite a nice sweet spot πŸ”– gql-tada.0no.co/devlog/2026-…
GitHub Pulse view: 40 PRs merged, 1 open PR, 20 closed issues

ALT GitHub Pulse view: 40 PRs merged, 1 open PR, 20 closed issues

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& special thanks to @tchayen who's been trying this out for the @expo dashboard and been giving us feedback big agentic wins in v1.11 too (like the scan command), and agents have helped a lot with speeding up experiments, testing theories, and trying out multiple impl. paths
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Nathan Schroeder
@nater02
Jun 11
Just created an expo-widgets template for @expo ! One command and you've got an app with widgets: bun create expo --example with-widgets
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i love to sign into pylon by signing into slack which i sign into with google, which then fails because my workspace email changed. technology is awesome
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but of course, i can send an email with a sign in link for slack instead, which then opens their app, which in turn invalidates the sign in link, so that doesn't work
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but i can just resend the link and copy it into my phone's browser which ... oh no i guess not
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phil 🫠
@_philpl
Jun 9
'loving' the new xcode ui changes that just dropped πŸ₯°πŸ₯°
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Nathan Schroeder
@nater02
Jun 8
I’m super excited to announce I’ve joined @expo as a Developer Success Engineer! πŸ₯³ Kind of surreal, honestly. I’ve been building with Expo on a ton of projects for a while now, and it’s shaped how I think about building apps more than anything. And there’s a lot happening in the React Native world right now, so getting to work on it from the inside, plus making content that helps other devs build better and faster, feels like exactly where I want to be. Looking forward to spending a lot more time with this community πŸ’™
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Aaron Grider
@aarongrider
Jun 2
I’m hiring exceptional software engineers for my team at @SpaceX. We are a small team based in Redmond, WA (onsite) that owns key parts of the @Starlink user experience: Starlink.com, the mobile app, customer support, AI integrations. No PMs. No designers. You ship from day one to millions of customers. If this sounds interesting, DM me something impressive you’ve built.
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thanks to @birch_js, @jmeistrich, and @GroundControl i'm (finally πŸ˜…) sold on RN for desktop having huge potential hyped to get some changes merged soon to get another step closer to making this first-class supported in expo ❀️
Daniel Williams
@Danny_H_W
May 29
We just got @expo desktop from @birch_js at @appjsconf! βš›οΈπŸš€
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i guess @donadeldev tried to get this bumped up on the devtools todo list for a while but we needed other changes from 54 to ship first to make it possible πŸ˜…
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Jay Meistrich
@jmeistrich
May 28
Legend List 3.0 is here! πŸŽ‰ ✨ React DOM support ✨ Even faster, more stable ✨ Perfect initial scroll ✨ KeyboardAwareLegendList for chat and AI apps ✨ Reanimated item transitions ✨ So much more! It’s been almost 1,000 commits since v2, super excited to finally release it!
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Expo
@expo
May 26
πŸ’… Expo UI is now stable in SDK 56. One import from @expo/ui gives you SwiftUI on iOS and Jetpack Compose on Android. Real platform components underneath. Drop-in replacements for 7 common community packages are in there too. Worth thinning out your package.json this week. Full blog with details about getting started below ↓
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Evan Bacon πŸ₯“
@Baconbrix
May 25
In Expo SDK 56 you can drop-in replace 8 common UI packages with the single universal @expo/ui package. Makes upgrading much easier in the future
Expo
@expo
May 21
Expo SDK 56 is out πŸ™Œ β—† Expo UI is stable on iOS and Android β—† iOS builds 16% faster, plus another 20% on EAS from precompiled community libs β—† Android cold starts 40% faster β—† Expo Router decoupled from React Navigation β—† Inline native modules: write Swift and Kotlin right next to your TypeScript β—† Hermes v1 by default β—† Bytecode diffing on by default (~58% smaller OTA updates) β—† iOS Widgets stable β—† React Native 0.85 React 19.2 It's been two months since SDK 55, and we packed in everything we could fit. Your iOS build times are going to thank you. Full changelog ↓
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Hassan Khan@_hassankhan
May 22
So much goodness in 56. Don't forget to try out the newly-supported streaming SSR in Expo Web too
Expo
@expo
May 21
Expo SDK 56 is out πŸ™Œ β—† Expo UI is stable on iOS and Android β—† iOS builds 16% faster, plus another 20% on EAS from precompiled community libs β—† Android cold starts 40% faster β—† Expo Router decoupled from React Navigation β—† Inline native modules: write Swift and Kotlin right next to your TypeScript β—† Hermes v1 by default β—† Bytecode diffing on by default (~58% smaller OTA updates) β—† iOS Widgets stable β—† React Native 0.85 React 19.2 It's been two months since SDK 55, and we packed in everything we could fit. Your iOS build times are going to thank you. Full changelog ↓
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Krystof Woldrich@krystofwoldrich
May 22
Full iOS native mobile app development in @cursor_ai Cloud Agents powered by @expo. 🀯
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phil 🫠
@_philpl
May 22
and (small note in the post) with Expo 56 you can try out our virtual global store support (bun/pnpm) πŸŽ‰πŸ₯³ really useful for creating many worktrees quickly & with low storage impact
Evan Bacon πŸ₯“
@Baconbrix
May 21
Expo SDK 56 is here πŸš€ Massive performance improvements for Expo CLI β€” especially in sandboxes and with agents! ⬦ JS exports are ~20% faster ⬦ iOS builds are now ~1 minute faster ⬦ Android builds are ~2.8x faster
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Expo
@expo
May 21
Expo SDK 56 is out πŸ™Œ β—† Expo UI is stable on iOS and Android β—† iOS builds 16% faster, plus another 20% on EAS from precompiled community libs β—† Android cold starts 40% faster β—† Expo Router decoupled from React Navigation β—† Inline native modules: write Swift and Kotlin right next to your TypeScript β—† Hermes v1 by default β—† Bytecode diffing on by default (~58% smaller OTA updates) β—† iOS Widgets stable β—† React Native 0.85 React 19.2 It's been two months since SDK 55, and we packed in everything we could fit. Your iOS build times are going to thank you. Full changelog ↓
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Peter Pistorius
@appfactory
May 15
machinen.dev/ - boot once, run everywhere. A MicroVM that runs on hardware you already own. Close your laptop and it hands off to another host. Works across macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi. (aarch64)
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Expo
@expo
May 7
We just cut the SDK 56 beta πŸ˜… β—† 50% faster iOS builds (precompiled XCFrameworks) β—† 40% faster cold starts on Android β—† Expo UI is stable β—† iOS widgets are stable β—† expo-router rebuilt from scratch β—† Inline native modules β—† Brownfield multi-app support The obvious themes are speed and stability. But there are a lot of other interesting changes (like Expo Router decoupling itself form React Navigation). Get all the nuance and detail in the changelog below ↓
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