https://www.matthys.dev/blog Notes from building Ekklo with Expo and React Native. en https://www.matthys.dev/blog/hush-mute-discord-while-dictating https://www.matthys.dev/blog/hush-mute-discord-while-dictating Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT I dictate with Wispr Flow all day, and on Discord calls the whole room heard me. So I built Hush — a macOS menu-bar app to mute Discord from one key. First it failed: Discord ignores synthesized keystrokes. Then a pivot to Discord's RPC — and deleting the entire keystroke-synthesis layer — turned the fail into a shipped, open-source app for macOS & Windows. https://www.matthys.dev/blog/running-multiple-expo-apps-simulators-parallel https://www.matthys.dev/blog/running-multiple-expo-apps-simulators-parallel Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Simulator conflicts, port clashes and endless alt-tabbing across Expo apps. Here's the React Native workflow pain that made me build simgrid — a CLI to run several projects across iOS simulators and Android emulators in parallel. https://www.matthys.dev/blog/why-this-blog-exists https://www.matthys.dev/blog/why-this-blog-exists Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT I work full-time on Ekklo, built with Expo. This blog is where I document the journey — the stack, the decisions, and what I learn along the way.