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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name. Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.

An infographic showing how different aurora colors are produced by different gasses at various altitudes in the atmosphere.

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

It was fun to talk to y'all! 🥳

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𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒻 𝒶𝓃𝒹𝓎 @andylikescats.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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**

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

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!

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 Image: Santi Visalli/Getty

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.

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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 😄

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Seb ⚛️ ThisWeekInReact.com @sebastienlorber.com · 26/12/2024

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

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

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 😃

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Success! For Christmas this year, I got React Native Skia working on macOS! Along the way I learned quite a bit about Shaders, WebGPU, and just how extensively Skia is used. It's such an interesting space! I'm glad there are still new things to learn in UI dev 😎

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Not flashy, but I'm excited about this PR from @tommy.nguyen.works in React Native macOS that moves our CI publish pipelines to use @nx.dev ! Prior to this, we had a mix of spaghetti and inherited code from React Native Core that didn't scale as we did more releases github.com/microsoft/re...

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chore: set up proper publishing pipeline by tido64 · Pull Request #2266 · microsoft/react-native-macos

Summary: Sets up a publishing pipeline with Nx Release. Note that while this does enable us to publish nightlies, it will be handled separately from this PR. Replace Beachball with Nx Update int...

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Jamon @jamon.dev · 22/11/2024

React Native folks: @coolsoftware.dev made an excellent list of RN bluesky people to follow. Just click "Follow All" at the top, or go through and follow everyone (except @frankcalise.bsky.social, that seems risky to me) bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Starting to look at what it would take to get react-native-skia on macOS. The first step is moving the example app to react-native-test-app. This already has the benefit of combining the previously separate paper and fabric example apps. github.com/Shopify/reac...

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feat: move test app to react-native-test-app by Saadnajmi · Pull Request #2746 · Shopify/react-native-skia

TODO: Test iOS Paper Test iOS Fabric Test Android Paper Test Android Fabric Summary I am interested in (eventually) adding macOS support to react-native-skia. Generally the first step to this...

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I wonder how easy it would be to port this app to React Native macOS 🤔

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

I have not been on here much since I’m mostly on Twitter / Threads. But I thought I’d give it another go :)

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