Field Notes
Practical writing on mobile codebase audits, release readiness, and the last mile before store submission.
Short articles from reviewers who spend release weeks inside other people’s repositories.
Cold-start crashes that CI never saw
Why a green pipeline can still ship an Android cold-start crash — and what auditors look for when flaky lanes hide the signal.
Writing a go/hold memo people will actually read
Release readiness is a decision document, not a scrapbook of observations. Here is a structure that survives leadership meetings.
Agency handoffs: what to demand before you inherit a mobile repo
When an agency returns an app to an in-house team, the repository is only half the story. Certificates, store accounts, and oral history matter just as much.
Offline queues and the battery tax
Silent upload retries feel responsible until they drain courier batteries across a province. How we evaluate offline sync during codebase audits.