Debugging Firebase: The Tale of User Ghosts and SDK Cousins
We just spent a few hours wrestling with a classic “It works on Web but fails on Native” bug. It turned out to be a perfect storm of SDK Mismatches, Metro Bundling quirks, and Aggressive Offline Caching. Here is the technical breakdown of what happened and how we fixed it. ...
Building Roumi #002: Mastering the Monorepo Audit with Claude
In the excitement of building Epic 1, it’s easy to let technical debt slide. “I’ll fix it later” is the most dangerous sentence in software engineering. Before moving on to the complex features of Epic 2 (The Feed), I decided to pull the emergency brake. I wanted to ensure Roumi was built on bedrock, not quicksand. For this session, I enlisted the help of Claude Code Opus Thinking mode, arming it with specialized skills like Vercel React Best Practices and React Native Architecture Guidelines. Here is the deep dive into what we found, and how I fixed it. ...
Building Roumi #001: Crafting a "Warm" Identity & Cross-Platform Auth
Welcome to the first devlog for Roumi, the app that transforms videos into viral text. I just wrapped up Epic 1: Onboarding & Identity, and I want to take you through my journey, from defining a unique artistic direction to solving complex cross-platform engineering challenges. ...
ClarityBox: Technical Overview & Stack Introduction
ClarityBox is a modern, privacy-first journaling and self-reflection platform designed to help users track their moods, reflect on conversations, and build emotional resilience. This article introduces the project, its core technical choices, and the stack powering its robust, scalable experience. ...
Taming the PWA Notification Lifecycle: A Technical Deep Dive
We hit a wall. Our notification system, built on Firebase and Web Push, worked perfectly on desktop browsers, but in our installed PWA, it was a ghost town. The first notification would arrive like clockwork, but any subsequent one would fail with an infuriating “subscription has expired” error. This is the story of how we diagnosed and fixed a classic, subtle, and frustrating PWA lifecycle problem. ...