← PortfolioWriting archive
Notes from the work.
Mobile engineering, architecture, systems, and occasional explorations beyond them.
10 articles · 45 minutesFeatured · Published in Stackademic
What 3 Years of React Native Taught Me That the Docs Never Will
OEM quirks, native modules, 16KB page sizes and locale-specific date crashes — lessons from shipping production apps.
17 May 2026 · 9 min read ↗
Complete archive
Newest first2026
01Engineering / React NativeThe React Native Upgrade I Didn’t Want to Do in One Shot0.77 to 0.86 as a series of controlled hops — third-party libraries, native build failures and the Android migration underneath.5 minStackademic ↗- 02ArchitectureFrom a Giant Switch to a Component Registry in React NativeWhen the renderer knows too much: moving component lookup out of one central switch.3 minJavaScript in Plain English ↗
- 03Platform / AndroidTarget API 36: The Android 16 Change That Caught Us by SurpriseThe Android 15 edge-to-edge opt-out was only ever a temporary escape hatch.3 minStackademic ↗
- 04AI / IndustrySpaceX × Cursor: The $60 Billion Bet That Could Rewrite How the World CodesWhat each side gets from the deal, and what it means for the AI coding race.6 minMedium ↗
- 05Engineering / React NativeWhat 3 Years of React Native Taught Me That the Docs Never WillOEM quirks, native modules, 16KB page sizes and locale-specific date crashes — lessons from shipping production apps.9 minStackademic ↗
- 06AI / ScienceThe Day AI Solved a 50-Year-Old Mystery in BiologyHow DeepMind’s AlphaFold cracked protein folding — and the lesson for builders.5 minAI in Plain English ↗
2025
07AI / ToolingOllama: Your Personal AI PlaygroundRunning LLMs locally — free, offline and private — with the API syntax you already know.4 minAI in Plain English ↗- 08React Native / AIHello AI: Meet React NativeWiring ChatGPT into a React Native app: setup, use cases and what to watch out for.3 minStackademic ↗
- 09SystemsThe CAP Theorem: Why Apps Can’t Have It AllWhy a message sometimes shows no ticks — consistency, availability and partitions.3 minDevelopers Global ↗
2024
10SecurityUnlocking Digital Security: The Power of Time-Based One-Time Passwords (TOTP)How time-based codes make multi-factor authentication harder to intercept.4 minMedium ↗