Insights
Insights
Client-facing articles on hiring mobile developers, Flutter vs React Native vs Expo, AI-assisted development, and mobile CI/CD — by Mohammad Jashem.
- Zero-Trust Homelab: Cloudflare Tunnel, Traefik, No Ports A zero-trust multi-VM homelab with no inbound ports: one Cloudflare Tunnel, Traefik v3, and Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Alloy on every VM — plus the trade-offs.
- Self-Hosted Hugo CI/CD: Drone + Cloudflare Tunnel A self-hosted Hugo CI/CD pipeline: Drone builds on push, ships files over SCP, and redeploys behind Cloudflare Tunnel + Traefik — zero open ports.
- Self-Hosted Coder on Docker: Dev Workspaces with Subdomains Self-hosted Coder on Docker: each workspace a sibling container with its own subdomain, Postgres-backed and Prometheus-scraped. Setup and the trust boundary.
- Kahf Kids SEO Architecture: Meta Injection + Sitemaps Expo SEO without SSR: a Fastify layer injects per-route meta and VideoObject JSON-LD into the SPA shell, and a paginated sitemap tree covers every video URL.
- Kahf Kids React Native / Expo Architecture: Mobile, Web, TV How one React Native / Expo codebase targets Android, iOS, Web, Android TV, and web TV from a shared monorepo, with a forked D-pad spatial-navigation layer.
- Kahf Kids Flutter Clean Architecture: Riverpod, Auto Route Kahf Kids Flutter clean architecture: 30+ features sliced into layers with Riverpod, Auto Route, and Freezed. Plus the WebView overlay case study.
- Crewlix Flutter Clean Architecture: HR App Deep Dive Flutter clean architecture on Crewlix (HR app): feature-sliced packages shared across two apps, Riverpod + AutoRoute + Freezed, and a flutter_quill feed.
- Why I Migrated Kahf Kids from Flutter to React Native/Expo Why I migrated Kahf Kids from Flutter to React Native/Expo: the platform-view ANR, the TV gap, the rebuild that removed the WebView hot path.
- Mobile CI/CD & Release Automation — The Complete Stack A production mobile CI/CD stack — self-hosted Drone, Fastlane, Xcode Cloud, tag-based test builds, AI review, and Google Chat reporting. From 7 years of practice.
- Maintaining a Flutter App for 7 Years Maintaining a Flutter app for seven years — Riverpod 3 migration, package breakage on every major, and the release pipeline behind zero incidents.
- Hire a Flutter Developer in 2026 How to hire a Flutter developer in 2026 — what to look for, rates by region, red flags, and how to vet architecture and delivery skills.
- Flutter vs React Native vs Expo for MVPs Flutter vs React Native vs Expo compared for cross-platform MVPs — platform views, TV support, low-end-device perf, and migration tradeoffs.
- Flutter Platform-View ANRs on Mali/PowerVR GPUs Why Flutter WebView and platform views cause context-lock ANRs on Mali and PowerVR GPUs, and what we did about it.
- AI-Assisted Mobile Development — How It Actually Works How AI-assisted mobile development works in practice — agentic workflows, context engineering, AI code review in CI/CD, and impact on timelines.
- AI Code Review in CI/CD: From Slow Reviews to Instant Adding AI code review to a mobile CI/CD pipeline: what it catches, what it misses, and how PR review time went from days to instant.