Conferences, hackathons and meetups I've attended or spoken at.
Two days with the Software Crafters community: a self-organized Open Space on Friday and three tracks of talks on Saturday covering software design and architecture, testing, AI, observability and tech culture.
A day full of talks on the React Native ecosystem, catching up with the latest patterns and tooling from the community.
The lineup covered a lot of ground: AI-agent tooling to drive and profile RN apps, better keyboard handling, modernizing React Native Web, type-safe navigation, debugging the Metro/app/debugger pipeline, animating with Skia, Apple's App Intents and Siri integration, building Live Activities and widgets straight from JSX, XR/AR with ViroReact, and taking React Native to the desktop.
A weekend-long hackathon building and shipping a project against the clock alongside other developers.