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Some thoughts:

- RN is a good place to start if you have React experience. The instant feedback via hot-reloading for UI is quite nice and makes learning fun. Maintenance can be an issue but it's gotten better over the years. Expo is a really great platform, and using Expo helps avoid many maintenance issues as well as helps you stay in JS land (including avoiding Xcode). RN will give you cross-platform out-of-the-box while also increasing exposure to platform-specific issues. In my experience, RN works well a lot of the time but then sometimes you need to deep dive on some tricky issue, which may require native code or a hack.

- Swift is a nice language that'll be most performant + provide the most-true-to-platform iOS UX and there's a lot of nice online resources for learning native iOS. It's a bit tricky right now because there are two native iOS UI frameworks (UIKit, SwiftUI). SwiftUI is the newer approach to iOS dev but you still need to use/interface with UIKit for some things. I'm finding SwiftUI pretty great these days, especially because it allows for Live Previews of UI (similar to RN's live reload); again, this live code<->preview link helps make learning fun. Xcode is a bit of a beast but it's not so bad imo especially for if you aren't on a huge dev team/project.

- I haven't used Flutter much so skipping discussion of that.

- RN vs native can be a divisive issue for a variety of reasons. Both have pros/cons and you can learn a lot from them.

- The best way to start likely depends on where you're at and looking to accomplish. If you really want cross-platform and/or enjoy React, then I'd look at RN. If you're excited about a particular platform, then I'd say go with that native platform's approach.

- Recommended sites/tools: expo for RN (https://expo.dev/), 100 Days of SwiftUI (https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui), Stanford's Developing Apps for iOS (https://cs193p.sites.stanford.edu/)

Thanks for the info - I’m a big fan and very appreciative of Wix’s RN contributions!

Is Wix moving away from React Native at this point?

I'm always looking to better my flow for PDF reading so really appreciate this question.

I have settled with Notability due to its nice iPad app where I use my Apple Pencil to annotate - the annotated PDF syncs to iCloud so it's available on Apple products (don't think it supports Android/Linux so maybe not cross-platform but something I'd recommend checking out if you can live with that limitation). If it's a book I'm using to learn something (usually tech), I then transfer notes to Bear in outline format (using the Notability mac app to read notes) and sometimes Anki for flashcards. One downside is that Notability doesn't support ePub so I either convert those or read on Kindle.

I tried OneNote recently but the iPad app seems unable to handle larger PDFs like textbooks which is a major bummer and surprising to me.

For anyone in SF, I'd recommend checking out the Dolphin Club if you're into swimming in cold water – it's right on Aquatic Park in Fisherman's Wharf and has saunas that you can jump into right after your swim. It's probably my favorite place in the city and is open to the public every other day.

https://www.dolphinclub.org/

+1. And I think specifically the SKIP LOCKED Postgres feature is relevant for this -https://tnishimura.github.io/articles/queues-in-postgresql/

Ah interesting to hear, thanks! Guess it would've been a pretty big ball-drop to not continue to own a piece

Juul was spun-off from Pax (unclear to me if Pax still owns a portion of it). And Juul's nicotine is the "big driver" of Juul's sales, not weed (as the commenter above claims)

"Also, it isn't tobacco that is the big driver of juul sales. Weed is."

What do you mean by this? Juul doesn't sell weed products and is hugely successful because it has made nicotine addiction easier + more accessible (which is part of what the article argues).

I've never gotten a chance to try out CloudKit but it has always looked pretty cool to me, especially after previous experiences with Parse. However, it seems like it'd reallllly tie the app developer in to iOS -- e.g., let's say I launch on iOS, how do I handle Android and/or web? I understand a lot of apps go iOS-first/focused, but to tie your entire backend to Apple is a bit much (unless you have no plans to expand beyond the CloudKit offerings). From a quick Google search, it seems like there is a JS implementation but I don't see an easy way on Android. This might work great for iOS-specific apps but seems like a bit too much risk vs. other, cross-platform solutions. I do appreciate how the free tier scales with number of users -- think that's a cool approach.

Having said the above, I've always wondered why Apple doesn't have an iOS SDK for user-auth (or if they do, why isn't it more prevalent outside of the Game Center stuff). I'd much prefer to one-touch sign up for an app using FaceId (if needed/user-approved, the app could access user info, like email), then have to signup with an email/username or use another 3rd party like Google. This is especially perplexing to me after the addition of the iOS password manager (https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-use-ios-11s-password-auto...) -- I think it'd be more compelling to offer password management behind the scenes in iOS (e.g, sign up with FaceId and have credentials generated/stored in password manager for off-device access; this could also encourage iOS generated passwords). There's a large chance I'm overlooking something here though, so who knows.

1) is so great -- thanks for making/sharing. I run into the clunky search process for 10k's once in a while and think your site does a great job improving that experience.

In case you're taking feature requests, these are some things I'd love to see in a 10k site (order in relevancy):

  autocomplete in search
  see recently released 10k's
  browse functionality
  10k specific discussions (e.g., annotating similar to RapGenius as well as longform analysis)

Some/all those may not be relevant for your site, just things I've always thought would be cool to see. And again, nice job with the site!

stackoverflow discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4912092/using-html5-canva...

slides from a member of the feedback team: https://www.elliottsprehn.com/preso/fluentconf/

relevant JS library: https://github.com/niklasvh/feedback.js

This is the same advice I was going to give and is how I've been working on my design skills.

One addition: you should look through Dribbble [0] or similar sites for inspiration, and you can use pre-existing resources for Sketch or Photoshop [1] to build mock-ups. I find it better to improve on design by iterating a bunch on mock-ups before working in HTML/CSS/iOS (since I'm much more familiar with going from design mockup -> front-end).

0 - https://dribbble.com/search?q=website 1 - e.g., http://www.sketchappsources.com/

I've found Google's Pagespeed Insights[0] to be a great resource for keeping obese sites in check. Their site will give you stats on load time as well as instructions on how to optimize that time, which is very important especially on a user's first visit -- e.g., I will bounce from a new site in X seconds, but may give an established site (think Amazon) X + Y second time to load. It's easy to miss how important page load is when you've been working on a site a bunch, but every extra second of load time has been show to impact sites' bottom lines [1].

0 - https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ 1 - http://www.fastcompany.com/1825005/how-one-second-could-cost...

Not a book, but since your description asks for a "source":

Developing iOS 8 Apps with Swift[0]: Stanford course with a great professor that focuses on learning Swift with a heavy focus on the iOS SDK. Really great for getting the fundamentals for iOS programming, and the course assumes a solid programming background (e.g., MVC).

Book: Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides)[1]. This looks like it just came out, and I haven't read it, but I did read the authors' Obj. C Guide and their iOS Guide, and both were great, so I'm assuming the same for this one.

0 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing-ios-8-apps-swi... 1 - http://www.amazon.com/Swift-Programming-Ranch-Guide-Guides/d...

I've had similar thoughts for private companies, but don't know enough about the possible underlying financial product structure. Can anyone shed some light onto the possibility of something like this?

Helloscout [http://helloscout.com/] | San Francisco, CA | Onsite

About us: We connect travelers with locals who help find/book awesome experiences. Currently, we use these tools: obj-c, parse.com, express, git, js, html, css.

We're looking for another mobile developer to join our team to help build out our iOS product. On the backend, we run on Parse, so any JS/Parse experience would be a plus.

If you're interested/have any questions/just want to say hello, send me an email and I'll get back within a day: [email protected]

https://angel.co/helloscout/jobs/75933-software-engineer-mob...

I was also thinking that many CS students learn Java as part of their degree (though I don't have stats handy), so Android is a natural extension there.

Helloscout [http://helloscout.com/] | San Francisco, CA | Onsite

About us: We connect travelers with locals who help find/book awesome experiences. Currently, we use these tools: obj-c, parse.com, express, git, js, html, css.

We're looking for another developer to join our team to build out our web product. We currently have an iOS app and would like to extend its functionality to the web (as well as add in web-specific features). Ideally, you are familiar with a JS front-end framework and node. iOS and/or Android experience would also be a plus

If you're interested/have any questions/just want to say hello, send me an email and I'll get back within a day: [email protected]

This talk is great -- I'm re-watching now!

Anyone have other similar videos? It's always cool to hear the about others' systems and how they evolve

What are your reasons for preferring Xamarin? I've been meaning to try it out but have not gotten around to it

Looks pretty cool! As someone who already has housing in SF, do you ever open up the Wednesday dinners to non-surfers, or have any other open events?

Thanks! Ionic is really awesome!! I would highly suggest trying it out, especially if you have familiarity with Angular -- you can make apps very quickly. The community is very helpful/responsive, and the team seems to be focused on continually improving it.

Yes, that's a main concern of mine, but I really liked the idea of a train hitch (like how the app connects people)

wow, thanks for the post! I'm the creator and would love to answer any questions. It will be on app stores soon, and I may expand it to other cities if it takes off, since it's based on GTFS data feeds that are available in many cities

Agreed -- I've always been very impressed by the Firebase team's responsiveness/helpfulness, especially on stackoverflow.

At the same time, I can't wait to see what the future of AngularFire holds!