simonhamp

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Software Engineer. Internet lover. Child of Britain. Resident of Gran Canaria.
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Comment · 15 days ago
it was supposed to be public. maybe it got reverted. the team were moving super fast
Comment · 15 days ago
it's fully open source (https://github.com/nunomaduro/dev-null.sh/pulls) and received over 200 PRs in less than 48 hours
Comment · 18 days ago
Comment · 23 days ago
Awesome story! Thanks for sharing. I will now go and have a listen
Comment · 1 month ago
You need to check out what we've been building with SuperNative - it's one codebase, but you end up with two truly native apps.
Comment · 1 month ago
But if you could get slick native mobile apps with less code (i.e. higher quality abstractions), that would be better
Comment · 1 month ago
Yep. It's a full copy of the state of the origin
Comment · 1 month ago
Just use copy-on-write clones. They're way more flexible, faster and easier to reason about.

I don't get spending all this time on tooling that tries to ease working with worktrees when they're just not the right abstraction for the way we're working now.

Comment · 1 month ago
You don't have to ditch cross-platform building entirely just to escape dependency hell
Comment · 1 month ago
Agree to a point, but human resource is literally the main cost in most businesses, so there's that

Conway's law also plays a big part here and it's kind of TBD to see if agentic development will minify or magnify its effects

Comment · 1 month ago
100% with you. I'm fed up of having my M3 36GB run out of memory because I have Chrome, Slack, Discord and Claude all open at the same time

That's why I'm building SuperNative

Comment · 1 month ago
I hate to break it to you, but we already have it: it's called PHP
Comment · 1 month ago
Seems like you've never had to worry about accessibility in hybrid apps...
Comment · 1 month ago
Hallelujah!

One other person in this place gets it: "fewer tokens, faster progress"

Electron, Tauri, React Native/Expo, Flutter (and countless others) are the wrong kind of abstractions, built for a time pre-AI, solving pre-AI problems

We need a new post-AI abstraction that embraces this opportunity!

That's why we're building SuperNative

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