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Thorben Primke @thorben.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

🔥 App.js '25 is kicking off in beautiful Kraków! This room is PACKED with builders ready to dive into the latest in cross platform development. Get ready for an incredible lineup of exciting talks, networking, and magic! 🚀 www.youtube.com/live/K2JTTKp... #AppjsConf #ReactNative

Photo of the stage with Charlie Cheever.

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Thorben Primke @thorben.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Tried @graze.social to track App.js Conf updates and I'm impressed by how intuitive the custom feed setup is! The keyword and post-type filtering work like magic. Perfect for staying on top of conference buzz. Can't wait to see everyone at #appjsconf! 🚀

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Thorben Primke @thorben.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

After testing various AI design tools over the past year—including Figma's latest AI features—Google's Stitch finally blew me away. It generated a clean, modern dashboard from just one initial prompt and five follow-ups. The results are genuinely impressive. 🎨✨

A simple dashboard design for a guestlist management product.

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Thorben Primke @thorben.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Big shoutout for the livestream on protected routes — seriously cool stuff. I almost missed it while skimming the SDK 53 release notes, but it’s a gem. If you haven’t caught the video yet, definitely give it a watch.

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Thorben Primke @thorben.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Glad I saw a mention of @bbloniarz.bsky.social's tweet about shared element transitions in @galaxies.dev newsletter. 🪄 💫 🚀

A screenshot showing a tweet about shared element transition for react native

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Thorben Primke @thorben.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

My Mac was running out of space and I discovered this little command. It finds all folders that are larger than 2G and only displays folders that you can access. I found a bunch of old Android SDKs, iOS simulators and a few other large files / folders that could be deleted.

It shows the command: du -h -d10 -t2G 2>/dev/null

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Thorben Primke @thorben.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Well...it works but maybe having a light and dark mode favicon is against best practices? Or I'm doing it wrong but I could only figure how to set one in the app.json for Expo to export the favicon.ico for web (to be used with EAS hosting). #reactnative

A code snippet showing how the html head's icon is set for dark and light mode.

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Thorben Primke @thorben.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Wishing I was still hacking from a bayou somewhere in Louisiana instead of an indoor standing desk. Those days last week were fun.

Laptop and drinking cup on table, in the background a bayou and someone putting a boat in the water

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Thorben Primke @thorben.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Exception: "Your macOS system limit does not allow enough watchers for Metro, install Watchman instead. Learn more: facebook.github.io/watchman/doc... Error: EMFILE: too many open files, watch" Solution: "rm -rf node_modules" 🤣

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Thorben Primke @thorben.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This year, for Giving Tuesday, I supported NOLA_CODE, a nonprofit empowering underserved youth in Nola through tech education. It’s a cause I deeply care about, and I’d love for you to join me in making a difference. Even a few dollars can help them reach their goal! nolacode.org/unlock-nolas... 🙏

nolacode.org

Unlock Nola's Potential - NOLA CODE

Envision a brighter future for New Orleans' youth Your Support Brings Tech Education and Future Career Opportunities to Kids in New Orleans The Problem Facing Our YouthEducational Inequi...

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Thorben Primke @thorben.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It's that native feel! But... Restoring scroll is not free or a native feature (at least not afaik on Android). Personally it works for me on Bluesky fwiw. Icons are generally a design choice and same across mobile/web. Seems almost impossible to match the OS theme icons in an app.

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Thorben Primke @thorben.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Finally it's time to head to @reactnativelondon.co.uk! Looking forward to lots of learning and connecting with others in the #reactnative community.

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Thorben Primke @thorben.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Only my second Waymo ride but I can see myself not owning and driving a car ever again...well except for some manual transmission Porsches.

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Thorben Primke @thorben.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

I finally got around to trying out a fresh @expo.dev 52 project with swmansion's Radon IDE. What a delight to see it break right there in the IDE. 🚀✨🚀 Next need to use the preview feature - reminds me of Compose Preview on Android.

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Thorben Primke @thorben.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

When I started building a universal RN app, I didn't expect to go deep on tanstack table and forms (react ts form / react hook form and zod) but tables and forms are at the core of this product. 😊🚀

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