Weekly Digest
Aug 17 - Aug 23, 2026
3 articles that week
Thursday, Aug 20
Gesture Handler's Touchable: Button We Wish We Had Sooner
Jakub Piasecki from Software Mansion just solved React Native's button problem. After shipping 9 different button components, they built one to replace them all.
Tuesday, Aug 18
Building a native-first social platform with Expo
Aras Diler built a production social platform with Siri integration, on-device AI, and iOS widgets as a solo developer. His secret? Treating Expo as the architecture, not just a starting point.
Web Haptic Feedback: Why It Refuses to Be More Tactile
Katarzyna Smolen reveals why your phone's haptic engine can do amazing things in native apps but almost nothing on the web. The limitation isn't hardware: it's a deliberate privacy decision.