Writing

What actually happened while shipping my own products: store rejections and why the fix did not work, a live data incident, CSS that missed silently. All of it with measurements, dates and real numbers.

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Writing

things that actually happened

3 September 2026 · Front end · 4 min read

What broke the mobile layout was a decorative glow

The familiar feeling of hunting horizontal overflow: text cut off on the right and no idea which element is doing it. I measured my way to all three, and two were not where I expected.

3 September 2026 · Front end · 2 min read

text-transform: uppercase breaks brand names on a Turkish page

A short piece, because the bug is short. But once you have seen it you notice it in every Turkish interface.

31 August 2026 · Incident · 3 min read

21 provinces went empty: the guard did not block bad data, it tripped over its own history

The incoming data was healthy the whole time. What stopped it being written was the guard’s own output from the day before.

31 August 2026 · Stores · 6 min read

Three Apple rejections: ATT, the GDPR form, and an ordering bug I did not expect

Every fix uncovered the next layer. The last one was not in the code at all — it was in when iOS agrees to show the ATT prompt.

20 August 2026 · Architecture · 3 min read

Finding “the nearest one” without ever sending location to a server

Sending location to the server is the easy path. Not sending it is an architectural decision rather than a line of code — and the bill is downloading the entire province list.

15 August 2026 · Stores · 3 min read

We fixed the Play declaration and the rejection came back word for word

Ticking the wrong box on a form can get an app rejected before anyone looks at a line of code. The real surprise was that un-ticking it did not help.