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How the products get built — architecture decisions, stack choices, and the honest mechanics of shipping solo. New notes land as the work does.

Oct 28, 20266 min read

Offline by design: how ScanCrypt keeps documents off the cloud

The architecture behind a 70+ tool PDF suite that passes the airplane-mode test — on-device OCR, local encryption, and an honest list of what does leave the phone.

Privacy

Oct 28, 20267 min read

Kotlin, Flutter or React Native: how I pick for a new app

A working decision framework from a studio that ships all three — when native wins, when cross-platform wins, and the questions that decide it in ten minutes.

Mobile

Oct 28, 20266 min read

Shipping production software as a one-person studio

The systems that let one developer design, build, launch and support whole products — scope-cutting, automation, and the discipline of boring technology.

Studio

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