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Every week I post a Techie Corner on LinkedIn — a real story from building and shipping apps solo, no fluff. Each one lives here in full, so the post just links back home.

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The phone should never decide who paid

A one-line support message — "I redeemed my code but the app still says I'm locked" — taught me why cached client state should never be the source of truth, and the boring fix that keeps your app and reality in sync.

6 min read · State & APIs · read →
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How I stopped shipping my Anthropic API key to thousands of phones

I built an AI feature into my app the lazy way — and nearly handed my API key to anyone with a proxy tool. Here's the pattern that fixed it, and the boilerplate that came out of it.

7 min read · Security & APIs · read →
Coming soon

EN, FR, AR and the curse of RTL in Expo

i18n · drops next week
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The paywall that doesn't make people hate you

Monetisation · soon
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I shipped an app on maternity leave. Here's the stack.

Build log · soon
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Why I sell my own infrastructure as boilerplates

Indie biz · soon
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RevenueCat in an afternoon: subscriptions without tears

Monetisation · soon
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Static sites still win: shipping fast with no build step

Web · soon
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