Dave McCollough

Chicago! You're invited to Kotlin's 15th birthday party Sept 29th in the West Loop. I'll be in town next week, I hope to see you there 💯 www.meetup.com/chicago-kotl...

Looking forward to this read!

New York turn up! I'm really excited to hang out with @expo.dev and Chime, talkin' mobile apps and AI. HMU if you're planning to go.

Ever had production crashes that didn't show up in your analytics? They're silent coroutine scope leaks, unhandled structured concurrency failures, and swallowed exceptions that bypass your logging entirely. Join me at KTConf for a pre-conference workshop to learn how to do coroutine forensics.

We recorded a special episode of Android Developers Backstage to celebrate 5 years of Compose! youtu.be/HEqXwUm6vd0?...

Chicago Kotlin User Group finally has its first event of the year! Join us at PACH for a beginner-friendly Kotlin Multiplatform & BLE workshop guided by Kartik Prakash! Bring a laptop, pair up, & build with IoT. When: July 30th Time: 5:30pm-8:00pm www.eventbrite.com/e/ckug-x-ctl...

57 years ago today, humans first landed on the Moon. The source code that helped get them there? It’s on GitHub. Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team responsible for Apollo’s onboard flight software. (Image credit: Draper Laboratory; restoration by Adam Cuerden, via Wikimedia Commons.)

Thanks for coming to my talk! AI needs Android developers to solve the performance problems they have today with the resources currently available. We don't have to wait until it's launched into space to resolve the current resource crisis we have today. speakerdeck.com/amanda_hinch...

I just posted a short guide on how to split up PRs by the file. Hope you find it as helpful as I did! medium.com/coding-kinet...

Didn't expect to get this today! ! #WWDC26

Chain React is back! Want to give a talk, but don't know where to start. Start here! Submit your idea or even post in our community slack for more help.

16+ free hours of training from Apple on the basics of Xcode, SwiftUI, and UIKit developer.apple.com/tutorials/ap...

The @swift.org team is demonstrating a level of consistency that makes me believe they really want to see the Swift programming language thrive outside of the Apple ecosystem.

2025 was a standout year for Kotlin Multiplatform — now powering apps for millions worldwide. 📈 Adoption in top apps doubled YoY 🎨 81% of devs use Compose Multiplatform 🧰 Solid tooling on macOS, Windows & Linux ✅ Used in production at Google, Duolingo & Douyin Thread 🧵👇

tarting off the new year by registering for a little 40 mile mountain bike race with 6,800′ of elevation gain.

Always good to hear from @tdesseyn.bsky.social about the hiring landscape. Don’t miss it!

🎄 Day 11 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: DevTools 🧑‍💻 Did you know about these tools to debug your React Native app? Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

🎄 Day 1 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: 5 Essential Features of Expo Router 🚀 If you’re building with @Expo.dev in 2025, these routing features will make every app a joy to work with 😍 Start here 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

We just shipped text recognition for React Native MLKit!

My Black Friday book sale has started! All of my Swift and SwiftUI books are now 30% off! Find out more: books.nilcoalescing.com #iOSDev #SwiftUI #SwiftLang

🆕 This PR from @nishan.dev adds CSS grid support to react native 🙌 It's not possible to overstate how massive this is for all of us. Future generations will celebrate Nishan Bende Day 🐐 github.com/facebook/yog...

After a 2 year break I'm finally jumping on a livestream again! Catch me tomorrow and let's build a React Native Game together 🤝 Get notified when the stream starts 🤝 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDc...

Time for Day of the Deadmau5!

Looking forward to this!

Great video on how to get started building apps for Horizon OS with React Native and @expo.dev www.youtube.com/watch?v=24G2...

Creating a "Recommended RN Libraries" video - what's your go-to stack and the essential React Native libraries you can't live without?

Anyone interested in a video about the new React Native IAP package? Looks solid to me, although I'm usually a big fan of using RevenueCat This is the package btw github.com/hyochan/rea...

Very cool use case for Expo Modules expo.dev/blog/buildin...

Want to integrate on-device AI features into your React Native apps? Good news! The talk that our very own @gantlaborde.com and @mazenchami.dev recently gave at @cascadiajs.com is now on YouTube! Don't miss it 👇

ATTN Developers: your AI assistant just got smarter. The new 𝝠 Expo MCP Server connects it directly to your Expo project so it can learn your SDK, fetch docs, automate installs, and test your app visually. Available now for all EAS paid plans (SDK 54+). ✍️ @kudochien.dev: expo.dev/blog/become-...

Great breakdown on building real-time audio in React Native — moving from file-based audio to in-memory buffers with JSI for low-latency processing. Super useful for apps with live effects or streaming. www.callstack.com/blog/from-fi...

🖤❤️ RNR 346 ❤️🖤 How was Shopify's transition to the New Architecture? This week: Mustafa Ali and Thiago Magalhães from Shopify do a deep dive into the company's transition to the new architecture with @mazenchami.dev! Don't miss it! 🎧 infinite.red/react-native...

TIL about npm run reset-project.. removes all the boilerplate from a Expo project.

Cool PDF v0.1.10 has 89% parity with react-native-pdf! Still heavily AI generated. I'll be doing some code auditing and documentation to get it production ready. But it should be in a state where you can evaluate if it'll work for you: github.com/coolsoftware...

🎉 Introducing React Native Harness - a lightweight framework for testing native modules directly on device or emulator. Write tests in a Jest-like syntax, run them in a real React Native runtime, and verify native behavior without mocks.

New blog post: Getting Started with Azure AI Foundry Playgrounds - a short, hands-on guide to Azure AI Foundry Playgrounds. #Azure #AzureAI #AI davemccollough.com/2025/10/14/g...

Started a repo for my Azure AI-102 exam notes.. exam is booked for next month so I'll be adding to these. Hopefully they'll be helpful for someone else! #AzureAI #Azure github.com/dave-mccollo...

Expo Go on the Quest 🤯 www.meta.com/experiences/...

When your kid is in town you make them ride the Monarch Crest trail with you

Years ago, I got started with RN and found React Native Radio. I listened through the entire back catalog. I fell in love with Infinite Red and their work Last year I was fortunate enough to join the team to be a part of that. Dream come true. Cherry on top: co-hosting this week's episode.

If you're looking for a US based React Native conference, Chain React is back next year! chainreactconf.com

I’ve always wanted a synthesizer.. looking forward to getting into this!

Using Rust for data pipeline operations provides significant performance and cost improvements over traditional Python and Java solutions. thenewstack.io/rust-eats-py...

Great introduction to Liquid Glass developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

I have published my slides for "Security Champions Worst Practices" from my talk at #OWASP Global #AppSec in Barcelona! You can download the PDF, view a recording, and see lots of pics at the link below. #owaspglobalappsec #securitychampions https://twp.ai/9PSRLA

new guidance from: @ncsc.gov.uk www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/c... 'Research shows that any efforts to improve the cyber security of an organisation will only ever be effective if they are supported by a culture that encourages and enables this improvement...'

They say never ship on Fridays... we highly disagree 😈 🎟️ TOMORROW we ship Early Bird tickets for Deep Dish Swift 2026! Get your ticket to reserve your spot at another year of great fun, knowledge, friendship, and pizza 🍕

My blog on how we are securing the agentic era on Windows 11 with MCP support announced at \\BUILD blogs.windows.com/windowsexper...

Couple of security talks for you to check out online if you weren't able to make it to #MSBuild last week: Deploying an end-to-end secure AI application with @pamelafox.bsky.social - www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Pu... Reflections on 25 years of writing secure code - www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd9S...