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Shipping a native iOS app as a web studio

Four of my apps are on the App Store, and every one of them compiled long before it shipped. SwiftUI is familiar for about a day, then six things stop working the way CSS taught you. The pipeline that gets a signed build onto somebody else's phone is the part nobody warns you about, including the rejection I could not fix in code.

The old browser you forgot to test

One word on line 18 of my stylesheet decides whether the header stays pinned on an iPhone. The iOS Safari position fixed bug, the feature query that gates the fix honestly, and the measurement that found a rule on my own index assuming a browser twenty-six Chrome versions newer than my written floor, which I fixed the same day.

Mobile-first, one thumb

Mobile first design, as I actually build it: finger-sized targets, Pointer Events instead of mouse events, and nothing important hidden behind a hover. Then the morning my own audit failed a component that was the right size all along, because the test drove a narrow desktop window and called it a phone.

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