Brian G.

I'm Brian, here from Threads to check the 🦋 vibes. I post about building tech products (20+ years experience), coding (React Native is my thing), coffee, backyard chickens, and other random stuff.

That feeling when you read turn on the lyrics in Apple Music to all those REM songs you've loved for 30+ years, and never understood wtf Stipe was saying...

The latest superpower unlocked using an LLM (Claude, specifically)... deciphering Crashlytics stack traces for my #reactnative app. I just pasted in a huge pile of gibberish and was able to figure out what looked like a new crash was really some Android user trying to sideload my app 🎯

The water pressure at my house (and in my entire city). Finally starting to bounce back after 3 days without.

My #reactnative overhaul is done ✅. Stoked to be on the latest of all my dependencies for a change - RN 0.76, Expo 52, Expo Router, react-native-firebase 21, Gluestack w/ NativeWind.

Deployed my first Cloudflare Workers app today. Pretty great developer experience, but with a learning curve since many of the npm SDKs and packages for things like Firebase Admin and SendGrid don't work on the edge runtime.

I needed a new display on my 2021 MacBook Pro M1. Would've been $900+ but AppleCare+ covered it for $0 🙌

Cursor is a sycophant sidekick who, if you don't know any better, will make you think your ideas are all really good, even when they are bad.

I wrote hundreds of unit tests with 95%+ coverage for my #reactnative app. Now, 2 years later, I am refreshing the tech stack and most of the tests will be broken in non-trivial ways. Are unit tests for solo products bad ROI? I think so...

Thanksgiving day food coma wearing off and it's quiet in the house. Feeling a nice late-night coding sesh for the side hustle 💻 🥃 🌙

Spent today looking for a new #reactnative image gallery. The one I've used for years doesn't support landscape orientation and appears to be abandoned. Too bad there isn't an @expo.dev supported gallery yet. I'm going with Galeria from Fernando Rojo for now.

Never underestimate the power of a simple diagram when trying to collaborate on software. Like really simple... boxes and arrows. Less talk-y, more draw-y

No drafts on Bsky is good. Type a post, then send it or discard it, there is no later.

The perfect UI kit for #reactnative still doesn’t exist. It’s a fragmented ecosystem with no clear winner.

Hooli Nucleus livestream vibes last night for Tyson vs Paul on Netflix

My #reactnative 0.76 new Architecture playbook: ✅ Scaffold new @expo.dev v52 app ✅ Add react-native-firebase and make sure it works ◻️ Scaffold out my routes w/ Expo Router ◻️ Add NativeWind ◻️ Build a medium complexity react-hook-form with NW ◻️ Port over current code en masse ◻️ Test and ship 🚀

My #reactnative app is about to get an overhaul and I'm stoked. Upgrading from Expo 50, RN 0.73.6 to Expo 52, RN 0.76 with the new Architecture (hopefully 🤞). Other goals: * Move to Expo Router * Replace NativeBase with NativeWindUI * Finally launch an iPad and tablet version

Thinking about watching the 2006 film Idiocracy... or do I even need to now?

Curious to know how the upgrade to the new #reactnative Architecture has gone for devs that have tried it. With Expo 52 released I am very tempted but have a feeling some of my dependencies are not going to play nice.

One of my favorite things about using @expo.dev is being able to `rm -rf ios` or `rm -rf android` anytime you want

The ultimate keyboard and mouse for coding 👇 I’ve been tempted to get an M4 Mac mini, but I love my MBP w/ Studio Display too much, plus I don’t want to switch to an external keyboard and trackpad.

Who can tell me the easiest way to find and connect with my Tech Threads peeps here?