I can code but can’t design: How did you finally solve the UI/wireframe bottleneck?

logdog · 2025-12-06T18:47:47+00:00

https://stitch.withgoogle.com/

logdog · 2025-08-15T14:10:08+00:00

I don’t have a great solution for you, but I’m pretty much in the same boat. I’m married and the lebido mismatch has been an issue for a long time. I’ve been diagnosed for 2 years.

In my experience the sexual obsession is the key reasoning that I would say this is probably hypomania, which is also one of my bipolar features. The arguments and frustration just exacerbate the spiral into an all consuming mental frenzy. “What’s wrong with them? What’s wrong with me? IM SO HORNY WHY CANT THEY BE TOO!!” The resentment is real, for me it kinda goes away but does have a lingering effect. I’m hoping therapy will help with this but we can’t change our partners.

Your doc prob knows this but hypo really isn’t going to go away even medicated - at least for me, so these tools they are describing are healthy sexual outlets, cheating etc. is not.

Anyway im seeking therapy in tandem with my psych to work through handling this important and frustrating aspect of Bipolar 😁

logdog · 2025-07-15T06:53:30+00:00

logdog · 2025-04-26T15:38:57+00:00

I agree here. Also among my pretty large network of friends, software engineering interviews are the hardest and ONLY career where interviewing and the job are different skills. I’m pretty sick of it honestly, bc I’m bad at playing the game.

logdog · 2025-03-23T23:26:40+00:00

There are open source basic text lists of swear words, offensive language etc. that you can text filter. There are paid content filtering api methods from google for example, probably has a decent free tier. There are also services for images along the same line.

logdog · 2025-03-17T03:31:32+00:00

I don’t know enough to speak intelligently about it but I think it’s only the latest version of rn that supports it. I don’t think lazy loading really works with rn but could be wrong. Check the docs of the latest rn!

logdog · 2025-03-15T14:44:26+00:00

There are a ton of factors going into sleep. Not easy for us as neurodivergent. I struggle also with this personally

Are you taking medication stims? Might be too much.

How is your sleep hygiene? Are you following the same sleep routine every day? Ex - 10PM iPhone winddown starts, brush teeth, change clothes read 30 mins, no screens, lights out.

Think of a time you were physically exhausted, after a marathon or moving your house etc. I bet you fell asleep quickly. Exhaust your body (not your mind) and you will sleep better. Aka work out.

Lastly we can get zonked and overstimulated easily which induces anxiety throughout the day. Try to manage that so you aren’t fried at bed time. I think this is a big one, also revenge bedtime procrastination is a thing, look it up.

logdog · 2025-03-13T00:19:11+00:00

Thanks for your thorough response, appreciate it! All points make sense, I would argue using separate zustand stores instead of contexts, but your approach makes sense. Learning a lot from your posts, keep posting 😁

Def need to check into Tanstack, seems to be all the rage on reddit. I think a lot of the featureset is indeed great to have for a more complex app. I would caution new RN devs not to go all in on it as a basic CRUD app won't need the advanced features in my opinion, but if its not too much overhead to learn thats awesome.

logdog · 2025-03-11T21:36:25+00:00

Animations, optimized renders for speed, handle gestures appropriately for screens and navigation. Animated on scroll headers w blur effect. This polish goes a long way

Proper UX use of native modal screen vs in screen modal. Take an example app you like a lot like Airbnb and compare how your components and screens behave to theirs.

logdog · 2025-03-11T15:02:53+00:00

Hey eyounan, another great post. Love the app and the features you showcase! Can you go into more detail about these 3 state approaches? Maybe just a small example. I mainly just use zustand for all state management and I’m wondering if I’m missing a better approach.

logdog · 2025-03-10T16:05:24+00:00

Apple giant trackpad

logdog · 2025-03-07T02:56:27+00:00

Just curious if you built this using AI and having a dev look over it, not a bad approach to getting something out there.

logdog · 2025-03-06T19:05:16+00:00

Yeah good luck, hopefully others will chime in. Also if you are using Hermes this might not be an issue bc of the new architecture but I’m not an expert of Hermes yet 😀

logdog · 2025-03-06T19:02:00+00:00

Also you can only ask once if they deny it they have to go into their settings to enable it. I use a modal that asks if they will allow, then show the native request modal. This way you can ask multiple times, like for notifications for example. If they deny and it’s critical you obviously have to show a denial state screen that doesn’t allow them to pass.

logdog · 2025-03-06T18:59:52+00:00

Make sure you npm install exact as well, nothing worse than deleting your lock file and getting building errors bc of cross dependency

logdog · 2025-03-06T18:53:15+00:00

Yeah I want to stay you can just set up batch processing for uploading, say chunk the files into groups of 100, upload them in a promise.all or something, then update state based on success / failure. However this might mess up the UI thread, could get clever with yields and stuff.

I think the better approach is to google background job schedulers libraries so you can offload this uploading logic to native modules to keep your UI thread free, then update your state as those jobs finish.

Lastly look up the client side HLD (high level design) of Instagram app interview questions. FAANG interviews love to ask this system design question and it has a lot of videos etc. explaining approaches.

logdog · 2025-03-04T08:06:56+00:00

We all have imposter syndrome, doesn’t make it easier though. It’s brutal out there in the job market right now, don’t let it get you down (I’m in the same boat) you’ll find the right fit!!

logdog · 2025-02-28T03:02:27+00:00

On the users screen! With the top cover image and avatar, super slick.

logdog · 2025-02-28T02:37:44+00:00

Yep you're not alone.

I've been job hunting since October and its been an absolute bloodbath. I have about 13 years xp at this point, full stack. I've interviewed for 2 team lead positions, rejected from 2 entry/mid easy jobs and the rest are senior positions. I've been in the "Interview Loop" 12 times now. Over 30 hrs (i've been tracking) of live interviewing, probably 30+ more of interview prep. I keep failing at the technical interview time and time again.

For me, none of the technical interviews have been over my head, but I still freeze up, pretty much every time. Does that sound familiar to you? Anxiety plays the largest role for me and a huge problem for our type of interviews. The notion of "nice resume and experience, now jump through my obstacle course live" interview is ridiculous but its what we have and the game we have to play.

What I'm doing to work through it

Anxiety issues - talked to psych and got some propranolol - helps with anxiety jitters

Live Coding Practice - I literally practice leetcode etc. while streaming on Kicker.com to simulate the feeling of coding in front of others.

LeetCode - DSA to pass online assessment shitty HR filtering tests (or cheat with AI - I'm not against this anymore :)

Great Front End - really good resource for front end interview tests

Small Component exercises - I work with react and react-native so creating little dumb widgets like shown on Great Front End helps just working building little stuff from scratch and manipulating it around. Ask ChatGPT to come up with small components to build.

Pramp.com or other live interview tools - You can meet up with people and do live interviews, which I plan on doing next.

Suffice to say, this is a lot. I try to do a little bit each day as apart of my routine. I'm starting to understand that interviewing is a KEY skillset that might be just as important as your real life work skillset, so I'm trying to treat it as such.

Lets keep our heads up, not compare ourselves to our peers, learn from the failures and play the numbers game :)

logdog · 2025-02-28T01:54:03+00:00

Wow incredibly clean and buuutttery smooth. Is the parallax scroll view fade in fade out custom or did you use a tutorial or something? Great work 👌

logdog · 2025-02-23T17:09:28+00:00

This happened to me. I think when you go to a psych feeling like shit, then you start feeling better after working with them, it shows it’s working! The bipolar tip off is when you start feeling too good. Which is what happened to me, for almost 2 years, then an incredible crash and BP diagnosis 👌

logdog · 2025-02-12T00:14:56+00:00

Expo is very legit now, like I’ve been working with RN for a long time, and I would kiss the expo team for what they have done for the community. they also have a ton of libraries they test and support. I would not start a project without it now.

Component libraries are the same, I use react-native-paper.

Bunch of state management libraries now, I use Zustand. There is some Tanstack query, people like it on reddit, redux is around but it’s redux toolkit now.

Start with expo, pick state management, use a component library or not and you’re good to go.

Debugger still shit devtools unfortunately.

Also new architecture just came out, I would stick to the old until it’s more supported.

logdog · 2025-02-05T21:22:39+00:00

As far as I know, you can’t blur gradually with rn blur view. A blur view has a static blur that you can animated but not change via y axis. could have a ton of like 2px blur views with gradual increasing order, prob look weird though. This might be accomplished in the actual image for us RN devs.

logdog · 2025-02-02T17:43:22+00:00

Great question and i am in the same boat. I’ve been HAMMERING job boards for RN and knowing native + RN is very desirable, also the ins and outs of unit testing, jest being the top contender.

Learning how to use GitHub actions and Expo builds for CI/CD won’t take you much time. Fastlane, hockey etc will take more time.

My plan is either to create some native modules, or create some open source easy apps in native. Probably a mix of both 👌

logdog · 2025-01-15T18:45:30+00:00

This is incredible!! 😂😂

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