Notes from the build
Short write-ups of problems I met while building the things on this site: what went wrong, what it turned out to be, and what fixed it.
- Nibble29 September 20265 min read
Measuring a mobile line without spending it
A speed test that burns 300 MB to tell you your line is fine is a strange thing to run on a metered plan. How Nibble gets the same answer from a tenth of the data — and some of it from none at all.
- All in One Downloader29 September 20264 min read
Why my downloads were stuck at 300 KB/s
An 8 MB/s line, a 300 KB/s download, and a week of blaming the wrong thing. The limit in All in One Downloader was never the line — it was using one connection.
- Resonance Mobile29 September 20265 min read
One recommender, two platforms
Resonance runs on the desktop in Tauri and on Android in React Native. They share a recommender, a database schema and a cloud — without a monorepo, and without the two drifting apart.