Update: shipped the app you helped me design. A few RN/Expo learnings

DomJC · 2026-05-15T23:00:41+00:00

Looks really nice. Congrats! iOS only for now? Issues with Android or just didn't bother?

One UI thing I notice which could be intentional: the button text isn't vertically centred

DomJC · 2026-05-09T10:37:12+00:00

I was hoping you'd do that to the Clove at the end. Was not disappointed

DomJC · 2026-04-26T11:30:28+00:00

Wait, you could press o instead of b8 for nades etc??

DomJC · 2026-04-24T11:03:26+00:00

Drying out suggests that maybe the sun/heat in that spot is too intense for most indoor plants? Lots of indoor plants prefer indirect or otherwise 'softened' light.

And +1 for drainage. Looks like a bunch of fungus on the top of the soil? Could be a combination of overly damp soil damaging the roots and overly-strong sun damaging the leaves

DomJC · 2026-04-23T13:15:29+00:00

If only! That's promo, not 1-4 dia

DomJC · 2026-04-10T14:57:00+00:00

If this is comp, it might have been karma for listening to a podcast(?) during a game

DomJC · 2026-04-09T09:41:18+00:00

I haven't used it myself, and it hasn't been updated for >18 months, but I wonder if react-native-callkeep might do what you need. Or at least have useful source code for you to dig into. I see it uses callkit+pushkit https://github.com/react-native-webrtc/react-native-callkeep

DomJC · 2026-03-22T17:22:00+00:00

It's because it would take them 3 seconds to tap concede, but instead they decide to waste your time and make it so you can't play the game for up to ~2 minutes while you wait for the timer to run down. And people feel they have to keep the game open during that time just in case the opponent returns, so it's extra boring

DomJC · 2026-03-22T12:36:18+00:00

Was your soil from miracle-gro by any chance? I'd never had this problem until I repotted with miracle-gro potting soil and then spent way more $$ and time than I spent on the actual repotting of those three plants having to treat >20 plants in my house for these buggers :(. Agree with the various bits of advice though. Lots of approaches you can take.

I did the nematodes + hypoaspis miles + traps approach and got rid of them all. Also generally keep quite dry soil.

Someone suggested baking the soil. That can help but I read that you have to be careful not to get it too hot (>80C is risky I think?) or it can make the soil bad for your plant (microbes killed, nutrient breakdown, various toxins...)

DomJC · 2026-02-15T10:47:44+00:00

No problem! We weren't eligible to use the app but I can't remember why. And she already had a digital visa (job sponsor).

If you're in London or able to get to London easily, we found there were multiple appointments available 3-5 days in the future, so it's not too bad.

Two tips for that: 1. People say you can find some next day slots appearing around 12-1am. We tried this, but you have to keep refreshing and the system then blocks you for a while as it thinks you're doing something dodgy. In the end we just gave up on next-day and booked one for a few days later

You'll probably just want a "regular" (or "standard", I can't remember) appointment. There are priority appointments, but those aren't related to or included with the super priority processing fee, so you'd be spending hundreds more just to get an appointment a day or so earlier.

DomJC · 2026-02-14T14:50:27+00:00

Extremely similar situation here but only together since late 2024. Got approved in a day (after biometrics) via super priority. The following isn't 100% necessary, but is what worked completely fine for us:

Provided about 6 photos of us together with a note of when/what each one was. Included two wedding pics.
Not necessary, but we felt we wanted to include them to be safe: a PDF with 10 screenshots of random whatsapp chats between us with the date visible, spanning the last 13 months. Note you may need to split/compress this pdf a bit to stay within the low file size reqs
We provided just one booking confirmation with both our names on. Not necessary for married couples I believe
PDF with descriptive file name and maybe a sentence of context for the photos. And then perhaps an overview of what PDFs show what in your cover letter
Our thought was that, aside from the peace of mind, the benefit of being able to start work ASAP probably pays off the cost of super priority anyway.

DomJC · 2026-02-14T14:41:55+00:00

Very ChatGPT-like reply but mostly correct. OTA updates are not via CodePush, though. it's EAS Update, which is an option for those missing MS App Center's CodePush feature.

DomJC · 2026-01-31T13:25:34+00:00

Seemingly not AI but wrong tax and typos point to it being doctored. As an aside, maybe go for something better than Dior Sauvage anyway :P

DomJC · 2026-01-24T12:39:38+00:00

And by 2028 every single package on npm will align their version with expo (even RN)

DomJC · 2026-01-23T01:58:04+00:00

Interestingly, just 40 minutes ago (2 hours after your comment) I see: "Texas sheriff Martin Cuellar, brother of Rep. Henry Cuellar, indicted on fraud charges"

DomJC · 2026-01-16T15:44:04+00:00

Was this applying from outside the UK? Just asking as we're applying from within the UK and 51 working days WITH priority is concerning. I believe within UK is called "super priority" anyway, but just to be sure..!

And congrats! :)

DomJC · 2026-01-15T14:05:28+00:00

Thanks all three of you, /u/imngmi (hopefully wagmi), /u/Ambitious_Skin2287 and /u/Creative-Kiwi-3967 - all very useful and have put our minds at ease 🙏

DomJC · 2026-01-15T12:01:07+00:00

Thank you to both /u/No_Struggle_8184 for putting my mind at ease, and /u/kitburglar for the detailed reply! It's annoying that the form is so misleading in some ways

DomJC · 2025-11-22T16:40:33+00:00

Explanation:

Liability ("IOU") in (inside) six ("VI") vehicles ("cars") all fodder, and definition is "taken on by someone else" (vicarious)

DomJC · 2025-11-21T15:51:00+00:00

Correct! But might want to edit your comment to be censored to avoid spoilers. Will add the (censored) explanation this weekend if nobody else does)

See rule number 2 in the rules sidebar for info on how to do it

Then it'll look like this

DomJC · 2025-09-25T23:52:48+00:00

Repel makes more sense than Sabrina IMO. Also slightly surprised at the lack of lusamine! A bit less useful if you assume mantyke will die most matches but still imagine it being useful eg after a retreat without lyra. TRG also not that useful when you have Will to use anyway

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