Writing on mobile, backend, AI integration, and engineering trade-offs from the team that ships the work.https://technabit.com/enhttps://technabit.com/blog/our-phone-was-hot-from-doing-nothing/https://technabit.com/blog/our-phone-was-hot-from-doing-nothing/Users said the app made their phone hot when they weren't even using it. The forensics turned up four always-on polling intervals stacking into a permanent CPU baseline. The fix, the patterns that replaced them, and why polling is the wrong default.Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTReact NativeperformanceiOSbatteryReact QueryDanijel Dedićhttps://technabit.com/blog/weighing-a-truck-by-loading-it-onto-a-scale/https://technabit.com/blog/weighing-a-truck-by-loading-it-onto-a-scale/A 'feat: Improve photo analysis' commit silently turned a 0.001s synchronous metadata read into a 2-second async image load. A photo library that scanned in 90 seconds now took 17 minutes. The fix, the root cause, and the lesson on reading manifests before lifting cargo.Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTReact NativeSwiftperformanceExpo ModulesPhotoKitDanijel Dedić