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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 26/08/2025

How do you prevent your Figma files from turning into a complete mess? 🤔 This is the page structure I'm currently using to keep our B2C, B2B, and shared components organized. It works, but I'm always looking for a better way.

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Doublequote Studio @doublequotestudio.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

🚨 HeistGeist releases on Nintendo Switch tomorrow! 🚨 A story-focused cyberpunk RPG about the fallout of that one last heist gone terribly wrong. And you can even grab it with a pre-order/launch discount! www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... #indiegames

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 20/08/2025

On Bluesky: 1000 followers = cool On GitHub: 1 follower = demigod status Do the math.

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 14/08/2025

My most reliable debugging tool is still console.log('here'). Followed by console.log('here2'). It feels dumb, but it works almost every time. No notes.

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Doublequote Studio @doublequotestudio.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

From our post-mortem presentation: Everything is a remix. Originality is overrated.

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 12/08/2025

What’s one “2-minute” habit that genuinely changed your week?

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Doublequote Studio @doublequotestudio.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

HeistGeist - the narrative cyberpunk RPG about thieves and friendship is coming to Nintendo Swith on August 21, 2025! ⚔️ Fight with cards 💻 Hack the grid 💰👤 Steal from corporations 🎮 Play on Switch If you could help spread the word, we'd be forever grateful!💜 #indiegames #nindies

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 03/08/2025

My simple rule for choosing new tech: Don't pick what's "cool." Pick the tool you know best so you can ship twice as fast. Velocity is your most valuable asset in the beginning.

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 01/08/2025

The eternal builder's dilemma: Build it fast or build it right? Choosing speed isn't lazy. It's taking on "technical debt" as a strategic choice to get feedback faster. It’s a calculated risk. How do you decide when it's worth it?

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 30/07/2025

PART 1 Ever wondered why some of your .NET code feels sluggish, especially when processing text or handling large amounts of data? 🤔 The culprit is often hidden in plain sight: memory allocations.

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 28/07/2025

Side project stages: 1. This will change everything 2. This is harder than I thought 3. Maybe I should just contribute to open source 4. Actually, this is kind of fun 5. Wait, people want this? Currently, somewhere between 4 and 5 🤞

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 20/07/2025

Stopped organizing React Native by technical layers (components/, services/, utils/) and started organizing by features (auth/, profile/, posts/) Everything related to one feature lives in one folder. Game changer for maintainability 🔥 Full guide in thread 👇

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 24/02/2025

Ever get that blank stare during standup when someone asks what you worked on yesterday? 👀 I built a smart Obsidian template to solve this. Just released it on GitHub! I wrote a detailed blog post about why and how I built it: piliar.me/blog/smart-d...

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 18/02/2025

Working with React Native on Windows? Those path length limitations in monorepos can be tricky 🤔 Just published a guide on how to fix it with symlinks (saved me hours of debugging!) piliar.me/blog/taming-... PS: Using this in a new project - more soon 👀

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Doublequote Studio @doublequotestudio.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

HeistGeist, the cyberpunk RPG set in a futuristic version of our hometown, launched on Steam three months ago today. It still feels surreal that our small team managed to pull this off the way we did. Thanks to everyone who played the game! If you haven't yet: s.team/a/1982940 #indiegame #indiedev

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 22/01/2025

It's been almost a day since Reanimated 4 beta dropped. Where are all the super early adopters with their fancy animations??? 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8et...

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Announcing React Native Reanimated 4

YouTube video by Software Mansion

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 11/01/2025

Decided it's time to cleanse my podcast feed of political hot takes. Need some solid tech/dev/design podcasts in my life instead. Any recommendations? Already listening to @syntax.fm, but that’s about it.

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 06/01/2025

2 years of owning a Kindle and I JUST discovered they have an app that syncs your books and progress 🤦‍♂️ So you're telling me I can just whip out my phone anywhere and continue with my book? Jeez, going to smash my Goodreads challenge this year.

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 05/01/2025

programmers literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 02/01/2025

Shoutout to everyone posting footer year memes - you made me realize I hardcoded 2024 in my blog 💀 Finally fixed it properly... better late than never, right? 😅

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 01/01/2025

Just finished my yearly retrospective (3rd time in a row!) - from work to fitness to mental health. ~10k characters of hopes, learnings, and plans. Already excited to see how this doc ages when I check it next January 👀 Do you also do yearly reviews? Any ideas for improvement?

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 30/12/2024

The more I see these cool things, the more I'm convinced I need to drop everything and finally play with RN Skia 😅

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 30/12/2024

So, this app has been my pet project for a few months now (super part-time). Already got a domain, so things are getting serious™️ (hopefully this one won't end up in the domain cemetery) Excited to share that it's starting to look presentable! Might start documenting the journey with #buildinpublic

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 29/12/2024

Anyone know what this type of animated header is called? (Does it even have a proper name? 🤔) Built it with React Native Reanimated but would love to see how others tackle this!

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 28/12/2024

Ever wondered why some React Native projects look completely different from others? 🤔 Found these two in the wild: - Feature-based (auth, feed, profile) - Type-based (components, screens, services) Best part? No wrong answers here - one for big projects, one for quick MVPs. Any other ideas? 🧵

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 19/12/2024

When your code starts looking like a gingerbread cookie that's seen better days 😅 10/10 would still eat the cookie though… the code needs a complete rewrite…

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 19/12/2024

🧵 Building my second startup - solo this time after parting ways with my previous co-founders after 4 years. Reality check: programming + day job + business stuff alone is getting overwhelming. How did you find your "perfect" business co-founder match? What's your "must-have" vs "nice-to-have"?

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 18/12/2024

Looks like I have a new project manager - enforcing mandatory breaks by blocking my keyboard during programming 🐕 (Someone tell her that 'sit' doesn't mean 'sit on my workspace while I'm trying to code') #programming #dog

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 14/12/2024

Just watched Social Network again and honestly? It's STILL ridiculously good! Also probably the best filmed villain origin story we got IRL 💀

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 13/12/2024

Alright, the vibe of this is 👌 After all of these remakes, remasters and sequel stuff - this is a nice surprise. Has Naughty Dog ever made a sci-fi game? I don’t remember anything like that. youtu.be/o7TVPoxwi74

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Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Announcement Trailer

YouTube video by Naughty Dog

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 12/12/2024

Have you tried the AI rewrite feature with custom prompts? That one could be useful.

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 10/12/2024

TIL about git rerere (reuse recorded resolution): a feature that remembers how you solved merge conflicts 🧠 Will I ever use it? Probably (and hopefully) not. Did it blow my mind that Git has been holding out on me this whole time? Absolutely 🤯 git config --global rerere.enabled true

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 05/12/2024

This is actually the first Spotify Wrapped where I was like “yeah that checks out”. For some reason, during the previous ones, I was always surprised by both top artists and songs haha.

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Astro @astro.build · 02/12/2024

Astro 🤝 Google IDX Google has pledged $10,000 each month to help us push the web forward. Donations like this help us foster an ever-growing open source community. Thanks for the support! astro.build/blog/idx-off...

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Google IDX: Our Official Online Editor Partner | Astro

We are happy to announce that Google IDX has become Astro’s official online editor partner, donating $10,000 each month towards the ongoing open-source maintenance and development of Astro.

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 15/11/2024

Friendly reminder 🔔 Season 2 of Silo TV show has just premiered on AppleTV+. In case you haven’t read the book, I really recommend you to do so! 📚💙

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 10/11/2024

Found this old Reddit post of mine - still makes me happy whenever I spot dedicated bike lanes, especially when they're actually smoother than the car roads themselves #safestreets

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 21/10/2024

Homemade IKEA meatballs 🍽️ Recipe by Joshua Weissman www.joshuaweissman.com/post/ikea-sw...

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 18/10/2024

Hey devs! 👋 Friendly reminder: the Rubberduck🦆 feed is here to help with those stubborn bugs. Just drop your code with "Rubberduck🦆" and let's debug together! Sometimes explaining your problem to a virtual duck (and fellow coders) does the trick. Why not give it a quack?

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 18/10/2024

Why is it so fun to work on tools instead of what I should be doing?🤔 Anyway… Just released Minimal Unity Build Tool v1.1.0 with plugin support for custom pre/post build actions. Enjoy!🚀Btw. It's completely free, open-source, MIT license. github.com/martin-pilia...

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 31/12/2023

Jotted down a coding dilemma on here yesterday, and voilà, the solution popped into my head minutes later! Bluesky now has a 'rubberduck🦆' feed – a space to share coding challenges. No pressure for answers, since sometimes, posting the question is all it takes to spark the solution.

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 30/12/2023

Any Android developers here? I'm mainly a Unity developer, but I'm currently developing a native media player for my game, but mediaSession and mediaController are breaking my mind a bit. To clarify it, I need the notification player to listen to changes made in the app, and vice versa. Thread: 👇

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 29/12/2023

I just found out about </kbd> tags in Markdown to format text as a button! 🤔 Fellow developers! What's a neat trick or tool you recently discovered? I write down things I learn into my Obsidian, this helps with formatting step-by-step tutorials tremendously.

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 28/12/2023

📚💙 Ironically, not getting the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson initially led me to countless other books. Now, two years later, I'm finally diving into the book that sparked my reading spree! Let's hope it's more groundbreaking than the latest iOS update 🫢 (jk, namedrop is great)

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