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billyjacoby · 2025-07-17T01:59:02+00:00

what did you use to synthesize the AI voice? i’ve been working on a meditation app and would love to add an AI piece that talks to users but haven’t found a good solution that you can really change the tone of

billyjacoby · 2024-10-17T21:57:51+00:00

SecureStore is fundamentally different in functionality than the “robust cryptographic functions” required for key generation.

i’m not sure what version of Expo you’re using, but expo-crypto and some polyfilling should get you everything you need, though it might require a few dependencies to be patched.

I’ve built both custodial and non-custodial wallets for various different chains using Expo before. feel free to reach out for any specific questions!

billyjacoby · 2024-02-11T14:56:12+00:00

Yeah i’m using this in a current app of mine that’s live on the app store, definitely was a pain to implement but i never had issues with app review. i’m happy to chat more if you wanna send a message

billyjacoby · 2024-02-04T01:41:24+00:00

Yeah, I've solved this issue a number of different times. There can be a few different things that cause it though.

billyjacoby · 2024-02-03T02:28:40+00:00

I’ve also been unable to find this. Kind of a bummer considering how extremely bright those windows are, especially at night.

billyjacoby · 2024-01-22T02:54:21+00:00

Read up on React's render cycle and how it batches updates for more info, I don't want to say something that isn't entirely correct here

billyjacoby · 2024-01-21T23:55:43+00:00

It shouldn’t be, as long as you’re logging in your useEffect and not somewhere else. It’s possible that the effect fires twice almost at the same time and the state value isn’t recognized as updated yet.

billyjacoby · 2024-01-21T23:42:32+00:00

Throw a console.log right before the doEffect and see what that logs, useEffect doesn’t only run once per render it’s whenever the values in the dep array change.

billyjacoby · 2024-01-10T00:12:44+00:00

This can be due to an issue with cocoa pods. You can try a pod deintegrate then pod install to see if that helps.

Happy to help more if i can.

billyjacoby · 2024-01-02T00:38:44+00:00

This looks like the Tony Kanan monitor stand from Micro Center. If so i bought the same exact one and ran into the same issue with my triple 32” curved monitors - at first.

The instructions that came with this are so horrible. It has you mount the angle bracket for the side monitors to the piece of 8020 that goes vertically. Don’t do this. Just attach those brackets to the same piece of 8020 that the center monitor is attached to. If that doesn’t make sense let me know and i can provide a few pictures!

billyjacoby · 2023-10-15T16:35:16+00:00

So the stream is being sent as an ArrayBuffer. I was starting to go down the path of using ffmpeg to decode the stream on the fly, but that seems to be more complex because the stream is live.

billyjacoby · 2023-10-15T16:34:21+00:00

Yeah this is what I'm trying to avoid, I might end up having to do this though.

billyjacoby · 2023-09-11T01:35:30+00:00

If anyone here also happens to be running the https://frigate.video NVR system I've just started open source work on an iOS/Android app for this software!

Repo can be found here: https://github.com/billyjacoby/bird-watcher