Seth Webster

Wife: “ugh. This app is so bad. The cross-platform experience is awful” Me: turned on.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but *pinch* of baking soda stops almond milk from curdling in coffee. It brings down the acidity that curdles the milk.

Just open-sourced a new template for building AI chatbot apps like Claude with Expo Router! ⬦ Runs on iOS, Android, and web ⬦ Stream any model with AI SDK ⬦ Tailwind styles for theming ⬦ Smooth keyboard handling ⬦ Liquid Glass and iOS 18 Link below ↓

SECURITY ADVISORY — TanStack npm packages A supply-chain compromise affecting 42 @tanstack/* packages (84 versions total) was published to npm earlier today at approximately 19:20 and 19:26 UTC. Two malicious versions per package. Status: ACTIVE — packages are deprecated, npm security engaged, publish path being shut down. Severity: HIGH — payload exfiltrates AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and Vault credentials, GitHub tokens, .npmrc contents, and SSH keys. If you installed any @tanstack/* package between 19:20 and 19:30 UTC today, treat the host as potentially compromised: • Rotate cloud, GitHub, and SSH credentials immediately • Audit cloud audit logs for the last several hours • Pin to a prior known-good version and reinstall from a clean lockfile Detection — the malicious manifest contains: "optionalDependencies": { "@tanstack/setup": "github:tanstack/router#79ac49ee..." } Any version with this entry is compromised. The payload is delivered via a git-resolved optionalDependency whose prepare script runs router_init.js (~2.3 MB, smuggled into each tarball at the package root). Unpublish is blocked by npm policy for most affected packages due to existing third-party dependents. All 84 versions are being deprecated with a SECURITY warning, and npm security has been engaged to pull tarballs at the registry level. Full technical breakdown, complete package and version list, and rolling status updates: github.com/TanStack/route… Credit to the security researcher for responsible disclosure.

Bring it on in!

@GroundControl @ReactMiamiConf Agree @GroundControl !

The present cost of training and changing the culture is much less than the future cost of recruiting and integrating talented AI engineers in the future. I don't understand why companies aren't spending more on upskilling at this point. Something companies could do is tell their employees, "we know that there is a large technological shift happening. The company is going to take responsibility to make sure you're at the top of the game and make sure you're still marketable when it's time to move on to another job" Just giving off that vibe would shake a lot of AI resistance among engineering teams and improve the culture. But instead companies are setting performance quotas and expecting engineers to upskill themselves.

As I shared in my talk yesterday at @ReactMiamiConf only short-sighted leaders are laying off staff for efficiency gains at this point. 🤖 will drive a natural correction but layoffs en masse signal missing the true opportunity: do way more with way more.

@jmeistrich @whiskeywebfm @ReactMiamiConf The @clerk shirts are next level.

@sethwebster @whiskeywebfm @ReactMiamiConf What a great shirt 😍

About to go live with @sethwebster from the React Foundation at @ReactMiamiConf! Tune in here or on YouTube to join the conversation. We'll be live most of the day with various guests.

@DavidKPiano @ReactMiamiConf @jen_ayy_ Winner of best hair contest. Also cuteness contest. The baby is cute too.

These junior developers are getting younger and younger @ReactMiamiConf

Congrats to the team behind @ReactMiamiConf (esp. @MichelleBakels) for putting on such an amazing event. Amazing to be in a room with so many extraordinary builders. Finally got here and got to meet @gabegreenberg!

@trashh_dev Well. Damn.

never trust a person with a professional headshot as their profile pic

Hello, Miami. What’s good? @ReactMiamiConf is going to be awesome. See you there!

@joe_d_ryan @davidmokos_ @adamzvada @llamaluvr @krystofwoldrich @strvcom @expo Generally I have my pint while I work out.

Work travel has now become...where are we going to workout and maybe we will sneak in 1 cheeky pint. @davidmokos_ @adamzvada @sethwebster @llamaluvr and @krystofwoldrich are excited for both of these in Prague with the @strvcom team. @expo

@Kaiyes_ @Baconbrix @expo Not part of this work, but I’m working on it :)

@Baconbrix @expo what ever you guys do, why not take this chance & bring in react-native-macos & react-native-windows into the flow ?

I'm hiring for the @Expo Agent team! Expo Agent aims to automate the most complex aspects of native development, and deployment. Are you fascinated with self-replicating software, and want to build the most powerful mobile agent yet? Send evidence of exceptional ability to jobs@expo.dev

Who wouldn’t want this job!? Come work with @Baconbrix at @expo and be part of something yuge.

Recently I told you I joined @expo — here’s more about why.

@jordwalke Jaywalkeing*

Currently jaywalking. I cannot be governed.

@expo @carlhaynes This, @carlhaynes! OTA in dev is awesome -- having a mac on standby is pretty awesome too but not in reach for everyone. There are a number of companies that provide Mac on demand with a pre-baked image of your choosing. You can set that up and automate the build portion.

@carlhaynes Do you build locally? Or use OTA updates when you aren’t changing native code?

I really like using @expo eas but man $2 a build adds up quick with multiple projects and dev builds. Getting close to where it may make sense to buy a Mac mini for builds.