Which Locale? Decoding the Madness Behind iOS Localization and Language Preferences
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iOS localization is a wild ride where device and app locales play by their own rules. Under the hood, Apple uses CLDR/ICU language distance matching to pick the best locale for your app. Let’s decode the madness together. [...]
Large Language Models (LLMs): a hitchhiker's guide to their galaxy (for newbies like me)
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Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing how we interact with technology. This article provides some entry level knowledge about them. A personal selection of topic needed to understand the basics of them. [...]
Styled Components: create a type to define transient props based on the props interface of another component
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Standard transient props and shouldForwardProp are styled components API let you filter out props that should not be passed to the underlying React node or DOM element. In this post we will see how we can create a type to automatically define props from the interface of props of a parent component. [...]
Create a circular carousel with parallax effect in React Native
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Let's see how it is possible to create a circular carousel with parallax effect in React Native by leveraging the power of React Native Reanimated. [...]
React Universe 2024
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Let's dive into the talks from React Universe 2024 that stood out to us the most and share the key insights we gained. From innovative debugging tools to cross-platform development strategies, we’ll walk you through what we found valuable and how it’s shaping our approach to React and React Native development. [...]
React Native is Native: drawing customized background shapes with React Native Skia and React Native SVG
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A lot of mobile developer often complains that React Native is not Native, because it is missing some features. This is absolutely not true! In this blog post I will show you how I create a component with a custom background shape, similar to the one I did for a native component ome time ago [...]
Advent of TypeScript 2023: Santa is stuck! (Day 24)
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Santa is stuck! Let's see how I helped him to escape from the maze using the TypeScript type system. [...]