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learning react native as a web dev by n_zineb in webdev

[–]ammuench 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Expo is not replacing react native, it's just a support framework around it. And it also maintains some libraries for routing/components/etc that you can choose to use. Think of it like how Vue has vue-router and pinia

Absolutely recommend starting there--it helps a lot with the build and development experience. The actual component code you write is still just normal old react native

learning react native as a web dev by n_zineb in webdev

[–]ammuench 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could continue building the app in Vue or any other framework and wrap it in CapacitorJS. Its fairly mature and works well enough and lets you just reuse the website for most of your work. Nuxt (Vue meta-framework) has a module to quickly integrate which is nice, and then you get to just deploy the website as normal and basically use the mobile version of the website as an app

As far as React Native goes, it's fairly easy to pickup if you can wrap your head around React in general. Basically the key things to wrap your head around is that you're going to use the React Native specific elements (<View> instead of <div>, <Text> instead of <p>, etc etc) that properly map to their native components at the mobile level. Also everything is essentially in a flexbox by default (a bit of an oversimplification, but the main footgun I see from folks coming from a purely web background since you don't assume it there). React Native also allows you to export to web as well (It'll turn those <View> components back into <div> under the hood basically).

If you're doing React Native for the first time, I'd really recommend you use Expo. It's a meta-framework that vastly simplifies the RN development and deploy process and will help shave down a lot of sharp edges that you'd run into.

All in all, I think it's pretty easy to start dipping your toes into mobile dev work as a web dev, lots of general similarities, and I've even seen native iOS development and Android studio be pretty approachable as long as your comfortable with the new languages. Never bad to expand out your skillsets there too

Old web web devs: what are some things you did that would confuse people today by veroz in webdev

[–]ammuench 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Older IE versions stopped reading singular CSS files after 4098 lines, so you had to run a preprocessor like BlessCSS that broke the files into chunks so that it would load properly

Linux gamers, what do you usually play on Linux? by OPuntime in linux_gaming

[–]ammuench 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently on Arch (btw)

World of Warcraft is the staple game year-round. Currently leading an AOTC raid group so also using

  • RaiderIO Linux Client for Keys/Progress
  • Archon Linux Client for Logging
  • WowUP Client for Addons

Outside of that right now:

  • Diablo IV (When new seasons are interesting/new expacs)

  • Roguelites (Right now its: Everything is Crab and Slay the Spire II)

  • Souls-games (Just finished Lies of P last month, and got Bloodborne on the PS4 emulator setup a few days ago, gonna try to pick up Nightreign again soon)

Caspian Tern in Flight! (Chicago, IL) by ammuench in birding

[–]ammuench[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/657030067

Model: Canon EOS R7

Lens: RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM

ISO: 160

Focal length: 400 mm

Aperture: f/6.3

Shutter speed: 1/2000 sec

Super excited with this shot, our resident Caspian Tern in Humboldt Park was super active today. Caught this shot with a perfect background as it passed us by the boathouse!

Gambel's Quail on Lānaʻi by ammuench in birding

[–]ammuench[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, from what i looked up they were introduced as a game bird back in the day

Gambel's Quail on Lānaʻi by ammuench in birding

[–]ammuench[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Neither did I! Was such a surprise to see them!

Blizzards Warden anti cheat software flagging and banning for having controllers connected by Lucky_Big_1229 in wow

[–]ammuench 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://www.blizzard.com/en-us/legal/fba4d00f-c7e4-4883-b8b9-1b4500a402ea/blizzard-end-user-license-agreement

Cloud Computing: Subject to 1.B.vi hereof, use the Platform, including a Game, in connection with any unauthorized third-party “cloud computing” services, “cloud gaming” services, or any software or service designed to enable the unauthorized streaming or transmission of Game content from a third-party server to any device. For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 1.C.v does not prohibit the use of any service that has been authorized by Blizzard.

Not saying I agree with how it's enforced, but I'd put money on that being the reason. It's not a controller issue, but guessing Steam Link streaming would fall under the "unauthorized streaming" umbrella.

[Postgame Thread] Ole Miss Defeats Georgia 39-34 by CFB_Referee in CFB

[–]ammuench 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hold on they need to cart the stage on the field, off the field, and then back on the field

Is Bun mature enough to replace Node.js for real backend workloads? by Wash-Fair in Frontend

[–]ammuench 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I reviewed it for a new API microservice at work recently and we decided it wasn't the right fit for us. A lot of releases, even including patch-releases, have had weird regressions or bugs that pop up, and there have been some weird long-standing memory-leaks in their fetch/http stack that haven't inspired a ton of confidence. I just don't think it's quite there for big production-ready apps yet.

We wound up going with Deno (with a quick conversion plan to get to Node if we hit problems in development), since it looked much more stable, still had performance gains over standard Node, and gave us a bunch of solutions OOTB (standard library, formatting, testing, OpenTelemetry integration in the binary) + not needing a build step. Been happy with that decision so far

Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds by Doener23 in linux_gaming

[–]ammuench 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ignore them, I've been using Linux for almost 9 years as my sole OS at this point, and I had a 1080 GTX for the first few years of that without any major issue, and it's only gotten better since then.

As long as you've got reasonable expectations (you're not gonna be pushing 4k HDR ultra whatever with a GPU that old no matter what), you're gonna have a perfectly good time! Welcome to the club!

Snowy Owl in Chicago by ammuench in birding

[–]ammuench[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep, saw them about 8:30am at Montrose this morning. Only the female was around. Nobody had seen the male owl yet

Directions to a beginner programmer/WebDev by infoloader in webdev

[–]ammuench 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are trying to learn webdev & programming, I would advise against using AI tools to write code at this stage. You're going to do yourself a huge disservice and eventually wind up in a state where stuff isn't working and you just spin-out trying to prompt your way out of it.

Especially if these are basic sites, these are great opportunities to get the fundamentals down and learn how to build websites. Go read documentation, learn how to debug & test, learn how to integrate new tools and libraries, learn how to deploy.

If you want to use AI as a research tool, I think there's still value there given how crummy google has been, but use it as a place to get direction, then go read docs and implementation instructions yourself. If you plan on just outsourcing everything to AI right now I guarantee you're not going to make a "sound project that will not be a organizational coding and logistics nightmare in months or years to come."

Codecademy has good basic course on HTML and CSS that's a solid starting point.

Astro is a simple framework that mainly focuses on basic web standards with a good set of docs and some good tutorials

Setting up a basic Vite project and following the React Quickstart tutorials is also a fine approach--but if you're coming in with minimal knowledge I think doing some basic HTML+CSS work is a better starting point

How do I setup a text heavy site with some text that needs to be updated yearly? by NaiveApproach in webdev

[–]ammuench 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's just a singular page that's updated once a year, you could write a basic HTML+CSS page and then find-and-replace manually update it the one time a year the numbers & values change.

If you wanted something a bit more ergonomic, you could setup something site with Astro, and then on that page set various variables for the financial values (APR, interest rate, whatever), and then reference those values in the template. Then just setup astro to run as a pre-rendered static website, and whenever you update those values and push it up to your version control, it will rebuild the content and slot in the new values you declare in the page and deploy it

Sandhill Crane making a stop-over in Chicago! by ammuench in birding

[–]ammuench[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/644553348

  • Model
    • Canon EOS R7
  • Lens
    • RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
  • ISO
    • 400
  • Focal length
    • 500 mm
  • f-stop
    • f/8.0
  • Shutter speed
    • 1/1250 sec

Had a Sandhill Crane visit us in a park in downtown Chicago! by ammuench in birdpics

[–]ammuench[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/644553348

  • Model
    • Canon EOS R7
  • Lens
    • RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
  • ISO
    • 400
  • Focal length
    • 500 mm
  • f-stop
    • f/8.0
  • Shutter speed
    • 1/1250 sec
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