Long-form writing on privacy engineering, native mobile development, design, and the realities of running an independent product studio.
A small, growing collection. We publish when we have something genuinely useful to say.
Most cookie banners and ATT prompts are designed to be ignored. We unpack the dark patterns we've seen across the App Store, the regulatory requirements they violate, and the consent flows we ship instead.
Published September 2026
After three years of React Native and Flutter, we migrated everything to Swift and Kotlin. Here's what we learned, what we kept, and the moment we realized the trade-off was no longer worth it.
Published August 2026
Glass and neumorphism have been declared dead at least four times since 2020. We still use them — and so do Apple, Google, and most of the apps you love.
Published July 2026
Operating a profitable mobile app business without collecting user data sounds impossible. It isn't. We share the actual numbers, the SDK configurations that make it work.
Published June 2026
Apple's ATT, Google's Privacy Sandbox, GDPR TCF v2.2, CCPA opt-out signals — a map of the major privacy frameworks mobile developers must navigate.
Published May 2026
We're cutting features this year, not adding them. Here's the rationale, the discipline behind it, and the specific changes coming to our apps.
Published April 2026
