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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Is that.. dual arches as cat ears?

Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Where are you extracting all the class names to?

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

It was fun to talk to y'all! 🥳

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Welcome to the annual meat grinder :D

Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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

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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 · 06/05/2025

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

Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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

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 "The Bobby Yaga" 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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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

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

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I was too lazy to use the same photo 😅

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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

Apple demo code and ChatGPT are surprisingly useful!

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

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...

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Ripple Effect Shader with react-native-skia

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

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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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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 🤔

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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!

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Likewise! This + WebGPU just feels like a new frontier!

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

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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Thanks for the kind words! It was nice to read this :)

Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I wouldn’t go as far as equal, but sharing knowledge is good :)

Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

lol I got this from an Apple header. I didn’t make it.

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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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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Do you think if you started with iOS and did Android second, your finding would still hold, or reverse?

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I hope everything goes well for you Moti! That’s a lot to deal with but I know y’all will get through it 💪

Jamon @jamon.dev · 22/11/2024

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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 · 21/11/2024

I see, so you working be able to do things like create animations with the individual SVG elements? I guess tough at that point you might be better off with skia

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Do you have any idea what's different about it's implementation that makes rendering SVGs faster?

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

react-native-svg is super useful but I’ve always worried is a performance hog. I wonder how it compares to like, rendering SVGs in skia or some other library.

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

I became interested in skia from two things: 1. I saw a couple of demos of SwiftUI letting you define custom shader effects on any view. I wanted to see how to do that on RN. Skia lets you do that 2. I see that skia has an experimental new backend built off webgpu, which I just ported to macOS :)