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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 09/09/2025

ICYMI - We're shipping 6 React Native this year and it's going to make your upgrading life easier! also, 1.0 maybe? who knows! I guess you'll have to watch the recording from React Native Universe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPto...

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React Native Releases in 2025: Towards a Stable Future | Jorge Cohen at React Universe Conf 2025

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 06/09/2025

Hey Charlie, I’m sorry this is your upgrade experience. Any chance you could share more details on what goes wrong? we want to make this the best we possibly can.

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 03/09/2025

Hey Andy, mind sharing some of the errors you’re getting? We’re always interested in hearing from our users and see how we can help, fix, etc.

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 03/09/2025

That’s actually pretty good we might use that!

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 31/08/2025

No worries Sam we appreciate the feedback :) thanks for sharing all of that, i`ll pass it along to the team, and we`ll see what we can do. I`ll try to keep you posted and maybe you can give things a try again in the future?

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 31/08/2025

We’re really trying here, but as you know “There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.”

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 31/08/2025

Hey Sam, I’m an EM on the React team at Meta, really curious to get your thoughts on Metro and see where we can improve

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React Universe Summit @reactuniverse.com · 22/08/2025

10 years, 5 voices, 1 panel that defines where React Native has been and where it’s going. It will be a rare chance to hear from @ccheever.com (@expo.dev), @cortini.co‬ (Meta), @grabbou.com (@callstack.com), Christoph Nakazawa & @tomocchino.com (@vercel.com‬). Don't miss it 🎟️ clstk.com/4mNA8VK

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 12/08/2025

We are excited to announce the release of React Native 0.81! 🎉 This new version brings Android 16 support, faster iOS builds (experimental), and several bugfixes. reactnative.dev/blog/2025/08...

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React Native 0.81 - Android 16 support, faster iOS builds, and more · React Native

Today we are excited to release React Native 0.81!

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 10/08/2025

The rate of side-projects is intensifying, as shown by number of registered domains per week 😅

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 07/08/2025

I'll be speaking at React Universe Conf this year! Can't wait to share some of the work we've been doing to make React Native stabler for y'all!

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 05/08/2025

My podcast player side-project thingy is going well, got a web version going too, and it's all deployed. Apps are on Testflight. First time since 2018 of having my own stuff ready to go out there! React Native and Expo are magic.

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 31/07/2025

I’d like to believe that if you’re building something you have thoughts and opinions on how the thing should look/function. Just prompting “build me a calorie tracker/notes app/music player” etc, without thinking about what makes this different and better makes no sense to me.

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 31/07/2025

I understand why someone would use AI coding assistance, it’s great when you know what you want to build and know mostly what you’re doing. What I don’t get is trying to one-shot things. What’s the point? I can see the value in it as an LLM tech demo, but for a product? Nah.

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 26/07/2025

My heart Flutters thinking of all the UI I can Swiftly Compose with React Native.

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 17/07/2025

Claude did all the boring stuff while I worked on the fun unique features I needed for my player. so awesome. took 4-5 hours in total.

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 17/07/2025

I love how Claude Code helps me overcome "writer's block" on my side-projects. I wanted to write this podcast player since forever (it's highly customized to my usecase, sync server and device) but couldn't bring myself to do RSS parsing for the thousandth time in my career 🥱

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 12/06/2025

React Native 0.80 is out, Check it out! first time for me on the release crew too.

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Cat Graffam @catgraffam.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I recreated Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" using uDraw for the Nintendo Wii (and also turned all the people into Miis)

a digital recreation of edward hopper's "nighthawks" featuring four characters inside of a diner, all in the style of Nintendo Miis

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 30/05/2025

I'm experimenting with a way to show how DOS games render themselves. Basically I'm recording a lossless video of the game running on a very slow (virtual) CPU, then removing all the frames where nothing happens, and I'm playing it back sped up a lot.

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 20/05/2025

Anyway not sure what I'm trying to say here other than - time flies and life takes you unexpected places maybe?

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 20/05/2025

I always self identified as the "iOS guy" and "startups guy" and then "citymapper guy", and now I'm not only a "Meta person", but a "React person" talk about reinventing yourself 😅 ⚛️

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 20/05/2025

I joined CM as an iOS engineer, ended up doing Android immediately after joining and somehow found myself supporting dozens of reports (during COVID!) It was a pretty wild ride. (Here's me in the launch video for our Apple Pay integration www.instagram.com/p/B5prFHlHuYx/)

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 20/05/2025

Here's a piece of confetti I saved from when we launched Citymapper Pass (www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...) It was the first product at Citymapper I worked on 0 to 1. Took us 3 months I think? People liked it! It worked! It was EXCITING!

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 20/05/2025

I just realized the other day, that I've been at Meta longer than I was at Citymapper - my first job in the UK, and the job I stayed in the longest in 20 years.

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 11/05/2025

@ericmigi.com Hi Eric, can’t wait until I get my watch in December. Is there a way for software developers to get a dev board? Or emulator is the best way forward for now?

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React @react.dev · 08/04/2025

React Conf is back for 2025! Join our co-hosts, Meta and @callstack.com , October 7-8 in Henderson, Nevada or join the free livestream

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/04/2025

React Native 0.79 is now available! This release includes several performance improvements. Metro is now >3x faster to cold start! Android apps will also be faster thanks to changes to JS bundle compression. reactnative.dev/blog/2025/04...

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React Native 0.79 - Faster tooling and much more · React Native

Today we are excited to release React Native 0.79!

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 18/03/2025

How your email finds me

2000s photo of man with giant earbud earmuffs behind who children dressed as iPods

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 12/03/2025

I mean, Gnome icons are pretty easy, just throw some shapes and gradients on an Inkscape canvas, and you get a half decent result, but there's a ton of small details that could make it look better, I'm definitely missing.

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 12/03/2025

If anyone's willing to help, I'll gladly take it :)

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 12/03/2025

Tonight's project- THE ICON! this is not going to win any design awards, but kinda fits in with the rest of the system, which is what I'm going for 😅

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 11/03/2025

Everyone go get iPods, you can sync them now!

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 11/03/2025

First time doing GTK/Adw, and a while since I've done any substantial C coding, so took a bit to get start, but once I got in the zone it was mostly smooth sailing. libgpod doing most of the heavy lifting obviously.

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 11/03/2025

It's 2025, and I just want to be able to sync my iPod on my new Linux laptop, without gtkpod crashing or rhythmbox messing up my library. A few days later:

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localthunk @localthunk.com · 07/03/2025

I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development localthunk.com/blog/balatro...

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The Balatro Timeline — LocalThunk

It’s been approximately 3 years since I began work on Balatro - and in that time I have personally documented almost nothing about the journey. This is something that has bothered me since the game la...

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 19/02/2025

React Native 0.78 is now available! This release includes React 19, support for Android vector drawables, easier brownfield integration on iOS, and more. reactnative.dev/blog/2025/0...

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React Native 0.78 - React 19 and more · React Native

Today we are excited to release React Native 0.78!

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 17/02/2025

IIRC this was one of the last things I added to CM on iOS, nice to see it's being used and appreciated :P

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React @react.dev · 14/02/2025

Today, we’re deprecating Create React App for new apps, and encouraging existing apps to migrate to a framework. We’re also providing docs for when a framework isn’t a good fit for your project, or you prefer to start by building a framework. react.dev/blog/2025/02...

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Sunsetting Create React App – React

The library for web and native user interfaces

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Eric Migicovsky @ericmigi.com · 28/01/2025

** It's happening!! ** We managed to convince Google to open source PebbleOS. Took a while, but they just did it today! github.com/google/pebble With that, we're bringing Pebble back! I blogged about it - ericmigi.com/blog/why-wer...

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Why We’re Bringing Pebble Back

Eight years later, you still can’t beat a Pebble

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 21/01/2025

This is amazing! Congrats SWM team!!

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ading.dev @ading.dev · 13/01/2025

I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file. PDFs support Javascript, so Emscripten is used to compile Doom to asm.js, which is then run within the PDF engine. Input/output is done by manipulating text input fields. doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf github.com/ading2210/do...

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 20/12/2024

Good to see the team branching out!

Van with the writing “Blue Sky Developers” advertising building services and basement conversions

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stacksmashing @stacksmashing.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Oh nice, my Binary Ninja Wrapped 2024 is in!!

you are
the platformer
why focus on only one architecture?

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 10/12/2024

Cool! really like your stuff!

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Jorge Cohen @excbadacc.es · 10/12/2024

How do you make these? Complete graphical mockups or do you actually code the UI for some of these and let the OS render?

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 09/12/2024

The State of React Native 2024 is now open! 🚨🚨🚨 ➡️ stateofreactnative.com We've been running this survey for 3 years & it's become an invaluable resource for learning about React Native's best features and biggest pain points. Share your thoughts and help us shape the whole RN ecosystem!

its a header image with the title "State of React Native 2024"

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dan @danabra.mov · 06/12/2024

i can barely believe this but the last RN upgrade brought us something previously unimaginable — React Native DevTools that actually work. huge thanks to @motiz88.bsky.social and everyone else on the RN team who made that possible 💜

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