If your android app feels slow and you're building with Expo router, check your router.push usage. Overly using it will continue to add pages to the stack and consume memory. Use router.navigate and router.replace where appropriate and you'll notice a big improvement!

This is such a good tip, I saw an instant 20% drop in price for some of my app's LLM calls. However, I'll take it one step further. Most of the cost associated with LLM calls are driven by output tokens, not input tokens. So instead of asking to get JSON back, try getting your

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Finally able to put the finishing touches on my app Noshby (noshby.com) while I cook lunch lol Alex absolutely cooked with Paraspeech, it's way better than the built in voice mode that copilot has in vscode and I can finally code with voice in Cursor. LFG!

Hopefully this helps.

It's soooooo good when you can context switch between coding and enjoying a good series/movie. I also do it with gaming, in between rounds I'll jump in and make sure Codex hasn't fudged some implementation. We're truly living in the best of times as developers 😊

Using Midjourney to create an onboarding video has been the biggest pita. Almost impossible to extend an existing video with a new prompt and have it render what you want, at least in my experience. Anyone have a better tool for this use case? Veo 3? Sora?

Every feature starts as "this'll take 10 minutes" and ends as "this took 10 hours but it's so clean I might cry." 🥹

There's no dopamine hit like pushing a TestFlight build and watching your friend actually open it

The second hardest part of being a developer is explaining what your app does to your parents 🤷‍♂️

Honestly I think the hardest part of app development for me has been the design side and making decisions on how things should look and feel. Now I'm messing with the Icon Composer and it has really improved my icon! But I'm undecided on two versions for the ion for my app

Are the Google gods answering my prayers??

Sometimes I struggle with animations, trying to ensure scrolling is smooth and the header or tab bar hides nicely. Then I open the X app and realize I’m not the only one 😅

Finally had time to read & process this great post. I run into the pattern quite often, it goes: "<something that sounds wrong> is good actually, because <galaxy brain reason>" Galaxy brain reasoning is the best way to justify anything while looking / feeling good about it.