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04/07/2026

If your React Native list feels slow, stop reaching for useMemo. The problem is usually the list component itself.
Everyone starts with FlatList because that’s what every tutorial uses. But once your list gets big, FlatList does a lot more work as you scroll — and that’s your lag. The fix is swapping it for FlashList from Shopify, which recycles rows far more efficiently. On large lists the difference is obvious, and the API is almost identical. Just don’t forget estimatedItemSize.
I wasted way too long optimizing components when changing one import would’ve given me the biggest win. So before you touch useMemo or useCallback, ask whether you’re optimizing your components — or the thing rendering them.
What’s the React Native performance trap that wasted your time?

01/07/2026

AI can build my side projects in two days now. And honestly, it’s kind of ruined them for me.
This isn’t an anti-AI take — I use it every day. It’s something nobody warned me about. For months I had a list of game ideas and app experiments I always said I’d build “one day.” Now I just describe what I want and a couple of days later it’s sitting in front of me, working. The first few times, it felt incredible.
Then I started looking at these finished projects and feeling nothing. Because the fun was never in having the project — it was in building it. The figuring it out, the getting stuck, the debugging, the mess. AI did all of that. I just watched. So I got the result and skipped the only part I actually enjoyed.
I genuinely don’t know how to feel about this yet. Maybe it’s just what making things looks like now.
So I’m asking honestly: when AI builds the whole thing for you, do you still feel like you made something? Because lately, I’m not sure I do.

25/06/2026

You’re paying $20 a month for AI coding that runs on someone else’s computer. You don’t have to.
You can run a capable coding model entirely on your own laptop, for free, using Ollama. Pull a model, and it lives on your machine — no subscription, no monthly quotas, no code ever leaving your device. Pair it with Aider and the AI can read your whole project, not just one file, which is the difference between a toy and a real assistant.
It’s not as polished as the paid tools, and that’s fine — if you’re learning to build, you need something free and yours, not perfect. Set it up once and you’re done.
Every week I find the free version of a tool people overpay for. Follow so you stop renting things you could own.
So which one are you actually running — Llama or DeepSeek?

🔗 Learn more: lazycodelab.com

15/06/2026

Your college never told you this exists — and it’s been around for years.
The GitHub Student Developer Pack gives verified students thousands of dollars of professional dev tools, completely free. Copilot Pro, JetBrains IDEs, $200 in DigitalOcean credits, $100 in Azure, free domains, and premium learning platforms like FrontendMasters and DataCamp. All free while you’re a student.
The only requirement is that you’re enrolled and 13 or older. No college email? A student ID or enrollment letter works, and approval usually takes a couple of days. It fully works in India.
If you’re learning to code on a budget — paying for tools you can’t even put on UPI — this is the single best free resource you’re not using. Go claim it: github.com/education
Be honest: did you just find out about this today?

11/06/2026

Stop using AI for coding blindly and start mastering your development workflow.

Most developers use AI to generate code, but few actually understand what they are building. This video breaks down how to use AI as a learning partner instead of a crutch, ensuring you maintain your technical edge while moving faster.

Follow # to level up your coding skills without losing the fundamentals.

09/06/2026

Many developers complain about the perceived “apple tax” of 30% on the App Store, but most are unaware of a significant program. For “indie developer”s earning under a million dollars annually, the fee is reduced to 15% through Apple’s Small Business Program. This means that if you’re building for the “iphone app store”, you could be saving a lot by enrolling in this program.

🔗 Learn more about the Apple Small Business Program: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/small-business-program/
🔗 Learn about your eligibility for Apple SBP: https://www.revenuecat.com/blog/engineering/small-business-program/

05/06/2026

Everyone tells beginners to learn UIKit before SwiftUI. In 2026, that advice is costing you months.
Here’s the real difference: building one simple screen — a text field in a list with a navigation bar — takes 40+ lines in UIKit. You’re setting up a table view, a navigation controller, layout constraints, a delegate, and a data source. In SwiftUI, it’s about 10 lines, and the UI updates automatically when your data changes because SwiftUI is reactive. UIKit makes you do all of that by hand.
SwiftUI is where every new iOS app is heading. It’s faster to build, easier to read, and it keeps you shipping instead of fighting boilerplate. UIKit still matters for deep custom work and complex animations — but that’s a month-six problem, not a week-one one.
If you’re learning iOS development in 2026, start with SwiftUI. Learn UIKit later, when a real problem makes you reach for it.
Learned UIKit first? Would you still tell a beginner to do the same? Tell me why in the comments.

04/06/2026

Apple just made Liquid Glass mandatory — and you won’t be able to turn it off in iOS 27.
Right now you can recompile with Xcode 26 and disable the new Liquid Glass look. Apple is removing that escape hatch in the next major release. If you build iOS apps, your app gets the new design whether you adapted for it or not — and apps that ignore it are going to look broken next to everything else.
Developers have been vocal about the readability problems and the forced redesign of apps that already worked. But Apple made it clear at a recent workshop: Liquid Glass is staying, and it’s expanding across the platform. So the real question isn’t whether you like it — it’s whether you adopt it on your terms now, or get forced into it later.
Be honest in the comments: do you actually hate Liquid Glass, or are you secretly fine with it?

02/06/2026

Apple won’t let me ship my app anymore — not without answering 7 questions first.
I submitted Quotle, a real app I built and tested myself. Apple flagged it under Guideline 2.1, sent it to review, then bounced it back demanding I describe the app’s purpose, list every external service, and record the full user flow. I’m not a vibe coder. But the App Store is drowning in AI-generated apps right now, review times have tripled, and Apple can’t tell real indie work apart from the flood fast enough.
If you’re a solo developer or indie dev shipping to the App Store in 2026, here’s what’s actually happening and how to get through it fast.
Have you been hit with a Guideline 2.1 rejection lately? Tell me below.

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