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Sunday, November 16, 2025

Third Last Week Bali

We've done a lot this week. Photo highlights include Nyang Nyang Beach, Uluwatu Temple, Puppy Yoga and Sundays Beach Club.

Lazygit Blog Post#bwplotka.dev

Personally, probably the best thing about the lazygit is its UX, notably how easy it is to use this tool, with just a basic understanding of the git CLI. Generally, it seems that a nice user experience is achieved due to deliberate choice of strong consistency, deliberate visualizations and interactive menus. Let me explain.

Yes to all of this.

Upgrading React Native

At work this week I've been upgrading a very out of date React Native app. I'm upgrading from 74.5 to 79.6 along with all the Expo changes. It's been a painful upgrade where I've mostly been relying on ChatGPT to get through various bugs and issues.

I had this thought when getting very frustrated with the upgrade:

primitives are so much easier to deal with using AI, anything that is a bit more high level like React Native gets so annoying to debug

To me, React Native and Expo really has so much magic to it and it makes deep diving into the actual issue difficult. ChatGPT has helped a bit but its been a real grind to get the answers I need.

Pokemon Rom Hacks#ko-fi.com

I'm keen to give Pokémon Lazurus a go. The art style is beautiful and I've heard good things about this developer and their previous work.

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Valve Box#youtube.com

These are some really intriguing products. The killer thing that Valve have done is on the software side with SteamOS and Proton.