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    A Resolved Promise Is Not a Shown Dialog: Designing Honest In-App Review Flows

    I like promises because they look decisive. They either resolve or reject. We await them, and for a brief moment JavaScript feels like a world with rules. Then I worked through the contract of in-app review prompts. On both Android and iOS, requestReview() can resolve even when the user never saw a review dialog. The…

    EN2026-08-11

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    The Best OCR Fix Was Deleting Code: Lessons from a React Native Receipt Scanner

    Receipts are the most hostile documents in consumer computing. They're printed on thermal paper that fades in a glovebox, crumpled before they leave the store, photographed at 11 PM under a single kitchen bulb, and shaped like nothing else your image pipeline has met — a "tall" receipt can push past a 20:1 aspect…

    EN2026-07-18

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    iOS 26 Finally Fixed Alarm Apps. Android Still Makes You Earn It.

    I've been building a wake-up alarm app as a side project — a Flutter app whose whole premise is waking you with a voice message you (or someone who tolerates you) recorded. The one non-negotiable contract: the alarm sound fires at the scheduled time even if the app was never launched. If you've never built an alarm…

    EN2026-07-17